Hi, Peter!
Do I take it the John
MAXSON you mention who was born 1808 was a son of George Leroy
MAXSON? And your ancestor? If so we are distant cousins, as I am (through my mother) a descendant of George Leroy's son Nathan.
I, like you, don't know much about Rev. John. However, since he was a Seventh-day
Baptist minister, wouldn't the SDB Center in Janesville,
Wisconsin likely have some biographical/historical information on him?
The only thing I know about Matthew is the DAR recognizes him as a Patriot because he signed the Test Act.
Matthew's (ten years) younger sister, Thankful, married Nathan
BARBER. He was a militia Captain and a member of the
Rhode Island colonial legislature. Their daughter Eleanor married her first cousin once removed, George Leroy
MAXSON. His father, George, was a Lieutenant in the militia and, according to the DAR's records, lived EXACTLY forty years. To the day!
The younger George, Eleanor, and George's younger brothers moved from
Rhode Island to Lebanon in
Madison County,
New York around the turn of the nineteenth century. Around 1826 George and Eleanor and their family moved on to
Richburg in
Allegany County,
New York. (Some of the by-then married brothers may have come along, as well...I'm not sure.) Eleanor died and was buried in
Richburg in 1852, and George followed her the next year.
That's all I can remember "extempore," but I'll look at my
MAXSON information and see if I can come up with anything else. Hope I haven't been "carrying coals to Newcastle!" (Meaning: giving you information you already have.)
Have a good day...cousin?