This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Paxton Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YZ5.2ACIB/1065 Message Board Post: Paxton, Charles. 1707-1788. Loyalist official, b. Boston, Mass. Commissioner of Customs, Massachusetts; fled to England, probably in 1776. I am not related to this person, I am just passing on this information, which comes from a book titled "People & Events of the American Revolution" by Dupuy/Hammerman. R.R. Bowker Company, 1974. pg.386 Joyce