BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH - JAMES MOONE

Excerpted from Jourdan's "Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania", 1911, p. 1285.

Milton Moon, Silver Spring, MD, shared this sketch with me.

JAMES MOONE, the first American ancestor of the subject of this sketch, came to Pennsylvania from Bristol, England, at about the same date that John Moone, first above mentioned, appears in Philadelphia, and located near the falls of the Delaware, in Bucks County.  He had married at Bristol, England, about 1663, Joan Burgess, and was accompanied to America by several children of nearly adult age.  When he purchased a tract of land in Falls township, in 1695, his son, James Moone Jr., was named as one of the grantees, the title to vest in him when he arrived at the age of twenty-one years.

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.

James Moone was actively associated with the affairs of Bucks county, his name frequently appearing on the early records of that county after 1685 as a member of grand and petit juries, and as serving in various capacities by appointment of the court up to the time of his decease, in September, 1713.  Joan (Burgess) Moon, wife of James Moone, received a legacy from her parents or other relatives in England, in 1695, and obtained a certificate from the Bucks County Court on December 11, 1695, to enable her to receive it, the court entry of which is as follows:  "A certificate of Joan, the wife of James Moone being alive Signed in Court shee being then there present."  She survived her husband over a quarter of a century, dying December, 1739, in her ninetieth year, at the home of her son, Roger, the old home plantation in Falls township, the title of which had been transferred from James Jr. to his father and by the latter to Roger in 1706.  Children of James and Joan (Burgess) Moon: Sarah, Jasper, James, Roger, Jonas and Mary.  Jasper located in New Jersey and died in Burlington county, letters of administration being granted to his widow Susannah, April 29, 1726; the records of that county show that he was a resident there as early as 1704.  James, Roger and Jonas remained in Bucks county, and have left descendants. James was deputy sheriff of the county in 1714.

This article mentions Jasper as the eldest of James and Joan's children, which has since been disproven.