Person:John Moon (14)

Address: Name: John Moon Sort by: Moon, John

The Moon family, long resident in and about Bristol, England, were among the early converts to the principles of the Society of Friends, John Moone, was married at a Friend's meeting in Bristol, June 17, 166, to Sarah Snead, and on the records of that meeting are entered the births of four of their children: Joseph, Sarah, John and Elizabeth. John Moone came to Philadelphia with his wife and children. A Quaker preacher named George Fax gave William Penn the idea that religious freedom could be found in the New World. Among the passengers of Penn's first trip to America, on the Good Ship Welcome in 1682, were two brothers John & James Moon, both of their wives and children. The two families settled on a land grant deeded jointly to the brothers by William Penn. They named it Bucks County, abbreviated from their old home in Burlinghamshire County, England. Colonial farmers purchased their land from William Penn for 25 to 75 cents an acre, depending on the distance from Philadelphia. He was a member of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, a justice of the peace, Judge of the Court of Quarter Sessions, and a member of the provincial Assembly. He moved later to Dedford township, Glouchester county, New Jersey, where he died leaving a will dated October 8, 1715, which mentions his home farm on Mantoes creek; children: Joseph, absent out of the province: Elizabeth Gibson; Thomas: Edward and Charles. John Moone, of Philadelphia, was a brother of James Moone, of Bucks County. They were both witnesses to the will of Joseph Siddall, of Bucks County, which was probated in Philadelphia, May 5, 1704.