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Title: Re:Solomon Maxwell
Posted by: Doris Maxwell Dell
Date: 25 March 2007

I have been interested in the Solomon Maxwell active in the area that became the state of Delaware.  Before the American Revolution Delaware was a county in Pennsylvania.

Solomon was urging the Delaware committee to get the Constitution approved as rapidly as possible so Delaware could be the first state in the new American Union.

He has a son Solomon and is fairly traceable in prerevolution Delaware.  I found this when working on MY family descended from James Maxwell who died about 1694 in Delaware leaving son William from his first wife Domasine Low and sons Robert and James from his second wife widow Alice Adams who remarried.

This son Robert is well researched.  Son James does not appear to have any sons.  A number of daughters and step-daughters appear in his documents.  (I of course considered that he might have settled on son or sons who migrated west, but have not found any yet.)  William, the eldest son, appears on a court document with his son WILLIAM. I have not been able to trace that William.

Another Solomon is a plasterer in Chamberburg, PA and is the son of a William Maxswell also a plasterer.  Since my known ancestor HENRY MAXWELL BORN 1807 IN PA was a plaster and stone mason I have felt he might be attached to the Chambersburg family.  Also Henry had a son Charles who migrated to Ft. Worth, TX.  That Charles and his sons built some houses about 1910 that are similar to those built in Chambersburg a centry earlier. d


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Title:Date:Posted By:
Solomon Maxwell17 November 2006Dwight Maxwell
     Re:Solomon Maxwell25 March 2007Doris Maxwell Dell

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