The Maxwell Family

Anne (Maxwell) Stewart

Father: William Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Walker) Maxwell

Married: _____ Stewart

_____ Stewart was a major in the army.

Notes:
The Peerage of Ireland p393 (John Lodge, 1789)
a daughter Anne who married —— Stewart, Esq. a Major in the army.

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Anne (Maxwell) Bowyer

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Grace (Leavens) Maxwell

Married: Robert Bowyer

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Anne (Maxwell) Maxwell

Father: John Maxwell

Mother: Isabella (Leavens) Maxwell

Married: Robert Maxwell

Children: Death: c. 1776

Will: proved 18 June 1776

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Anne (Maxwell) Lyte

Birth: 1787/8, in Ireland

Father: William Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Massingberd) Maxwell

Anne (Maxwell) Lyte signature
Signature of Anne (Maxwell) Lyte
Married: Henry Francis Lyte on 21 January 1818, at Queen Square Chapel, Bath, Somerset, England
Henry Francis Lyte is recorded as clerk, of St Hilary Worcester.

Children: Notes: Anne's father left Falkland Castle in Ireland for Bath when she was very young. As a young woman she lived for a while at Marazion in Cornwall with a maiden aunt, due to ill health. It was here she was to meet her future husband who was curate at Marazion, but before that she befriended the poet Jane Taylor (who most famously penned the words of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"). Anne is remembered by Jane's brother, Rev. Isaac Taylor in his biography of Jane
The Family Pen vol 1 pp298-300 (Isaac Taylor, 1867):
  A young lady must take the next place in these notices of my sister's Marazion friends. This was Miss Anne Maxwell — the lady to whom is addressed a poem entitled, “The Shipwrecked Lascar—a True Tale.” The incident out of which this Lascar story took its rise, is mentioned in the foregoing letter to her father and mother. Miss Maxwell was the daughter of a Lincolnshire gentleman; but on account of the extreme delicacy of her health, and perhaps for other reasons, resided at Marazion with a maiden aunt. The circumstances of this young lady's early life, which might not have been of the most favourable kind, had taken effect upon a peculiar temperament in which were combined extraordinary fixedness of temper, with a self-denying kindliness, such as would have fitted her well for the labours and sacrifices of a “Sister of Charity”. In truth, her manner and appearance were very much those of a nun. She might have sat to a painter as his model for a St. Agnes. Hitherto Jane had become acquainted with no sample of this order of character. This new friend — a lady by habits and connexions — but destitute of that cultured intelligence and literary proficiency which she had been used to look for as a matter of course in her more intimate friends — nevertheless, commanded respect, and engaged affection on account of virtues of which no instance had before come in her way. Wanting in that liberty of thought which attends intellectuality, Anne Maxwell exhibited upon occasion a courage and a romantic determination which Jane Taylor would not easily have imitated. So it was on the occasion referred to in the Poem above-mentioned. The Indiaman wrecked in Mount's Bay was a "country-built ship" — and was manned by Hindoos, Lascars, and Mahometans. These men were for a time lodged in a building near the town, and it had become our amusement to visit the place, and to watch their various modes of caring for themselves. At length they were put on board a vessel London-bound — one of them excepted, who was in too feeble a state to be moved from his pallet. Of this invalid Anne Maxwell took charge, and during several weeks, or months, was his nurse, and found for him whatever he needed.
  A few years later than this time, Miss Maxwell became the wife of a clergyman, the Rev. Henry Lyte, a volume of whose miscellaneous poetry still has its admirers. Husband and wife have been some years deceased.

The book also includes some letters written by Jane Taylor to Anne after Jane's return from Marazion to her father's house.
Jane's poem, The Shipwrecked Lascar describes the shipwreck and is "addressed" to Anne Maxwell:
The Writings of Jane Taylor vol 1b pp310-1 (Jane Taylor, 1835)
    THE SHIPWRECKED LASCAR.
       (A True Tale.)
    ADDRESSED TO MISS M.
-SHE sailed in her pride from the regions of day;
Her cargo was rich, and her pennons were gay:
Long homeward she scudded, defying the blast,
Till Britain's green hills were descried from the mast.

Then gathered the tempest, then heightened the gale:
The hearts of her bravest were ready to fail:
Night adds to the horror, and deepens the roar:-
She lies in the morning a wreck on our shore.

And Heaven in its mercy has rescued the crew;
They live and return to their country anew:
But one sickly stranger—unfriended, unknown,
Is left by his comrades to perish alone.

He thinks of his home, for no shelter has he;
His wife and his mother are over the sea:
He came from the Islands of Spices afar,
—The dark Asiatic, the gentle Lascar.

He stretches in anguish the languishing limb,
Expecting no pity, no mercy for him;
—But England has pity—and O, there was one,
Who saw his dark face, and the kindness was done.

She took him, she nursed him with tender address;
And fair was the hand that relieved his distress:
She came like the angel of mercy from far,
To minister health to the dying Lascar.

His wants and her pity could only be known
By broken expressions, and sympathy's tone:
But pity has language no words can supply,
And gratitude speaks from the eloquent eye.

He watches her coming, for all must appear
In safety and comfort, if Madame be near;
He sits in her casa, unclouded by care,
For nothing is wanting if Madame be there.

Her care is rewarded:—the sick man is well;
And now he must bid her a final farewell:
Have pity, ye sailors, ye sons of the brave!
Oh, bear him in tenderness over the wave!

Borne on by the swell of the ocean he goes
To tell to his kindred the tale of his woes;
To tell his dark beauty, with many a tear,
Of Madame's kind casa, that sheltered him here.

And O, that the knowledge she strove to impart,
May lighten the gloom of his desolate heart!
And long as he lives will be heard from afar,
The blessings and prayers of the grateful Lascar.
    Marazion, November, 1815.

Shortly after her marriage to Henry Lyte, Anne's father died and "left them a very welcome legacy which enabled them to live in reasonable comfort, as the stipend of a clergyman was very small." 

Death: 7 January 1856, at Berry Head, Brixham, Devon, England

Burial: 11 January 1856, at Brixham, Devon, England

Will: dated 28 June 1848, proved (P.C.C., 401, 56) on 3 May 1856, by Rev. John Roughton Hodd, the sole Executor.

Census:
1851: Brixham, Devon

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Dorothea (Maxwell) George

Father: John Maxwell

Mother: Jane (Wright) Maxwell

Married: Luke George in 1783

Children: Sources:

Dorothea (Maxwell) Waring-Maxwell

Birth: 1761/2

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Maxwell) Maxwell

Married: John Charles Frederick Waring in 1783

John was Dorothea's first cousin.

Children: Notes:
Finnebrogue House
Finnebrogue House, Downpatrick, county Down
photo from www.finnebrogue.co.uk
Following the death of her brother, Edward, in 1892, Dorothea inherited the family estate at Finnebrogue. Following a fire in 1795, the house was subject to a comprehensive restoration by Dorothea. This work involved major changes to the interior with the attic level of the central section removed to allow the heightening of the first floor and the creation of a piano nobile in which the upper floor is the principal floor with higher ceilings - note the higher windows there - the rebuilding of the staircase, the addition of a new service stair to the east wing and the reordering of walls within the west wing to accommodate a passage. Much new neo-classical detailing was added as well as some rococo fireplaces - believed to have been brought from Paris - in the newly created drawing room and library. Externally, dormers which formerly lighted the central attic level were removed, the first floor windows to front enlarged and sash frames installed throughout the building.

A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland vol 2 p1470
DOROTHEA MAXWELL ... took the name and arms of MAXWELL, in addition to those of WARING, by royal licence, dated 9 April, 1803. Their son and heir is the present John WARING-MAXWELL, Esq. of Finnebrogue.
Arms—Quarterly: 1st and 4th, arg., on a bend, sa., three mascles, of the first, for WARING: 2nd and 3rd, arg., a saltire, sa., on a chief, three pallets, of the second, for MAXWELL.
Crest—A stork's head, couped, arg.
Motto—Nec vi nec astutia.
Seat—Finnebrogue, Downpatrick.

Death: 4 September 1842 at her residence, Jackson Hall, Coleraine, county Londonderry, Ireland
Ulster General Advertiser 10 September 1842
On the 4th inst., at her residence, Jackson Hall, Coleraine, aged 80 years, Dorothea Waring Maxwell, relict of the late John Waring Maxwell, Esq., of Finnebrogue, county of Down.

Notes:
Perceval Maxwell Papers p7
Robert Maxwell of Finnebrogue ... married thirdly Anne, second daughter of the Rev. John Maxwell of Falkland, Co. Monaghan, Archdeacon of Clogher, and died in 1769, having by her had issue a son, Edward Maxwell of Finnebrogue, who died without children in 1792, two other sons who died even younger, and a daughter, Dorothea, who became the first of a number of heiresses in this complicated family history.

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Edward Maxwell

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Maxwell) Maxwell

Death: 1792

Notes:
Perceval Maxwell Papers p7
Robert Maxwell of Finnebrogue ... married thirdly Anne, second daughter of the Rev. John Maxwell of Falkland, Co. Monaghan, Archdeacon of Clogher, and died in 1769, having by her had issue a son, Edward Maxwell of Finnebrogue, who died without children in 1792, two other sons who died even younger, and a daughter, Dorothea, who became the first of a number of heiresses in this complicated family history.

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Edward (Maxwell) Maxwell-Brown

Title: General

Father: Henry Maxwell

Mother: Dorothea (Brice) Maxwell

Death: 1803

Notes:
Edward who, after a flirtation with the law, entered the army and, much too slowly for his own satisfaction, rose to be Colonel of the 67th Regiment and a general. He succeeded to Ballyrolly in 1763, where he and his descendants lived, and leased Ballyrolly, Lisnamaul and Loughfalcon back to the Maxwells of Finnebrogue. He died in 1803, having in later life, assumed the additional surname, Brown, which was a condition of his inheriting a property at Wycke in Hampshire from someone of that name.

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Elizabeth (Maxwell) Berkeley

Father: Robert Maxwell

Married: Robert Berkeley (also spelled Barclay), D.D., Dean of Clogher

Robert obtained the degree of M.A.. He was ordained deacon and priest 9 May 1606, installed Dean of Clogher 21 May 1617.

Children: Death: 29 August 1635

Buried: St Patrick's Church, Armagh, county Armagh, Ireland
Collectanea genealogica November 1881 part 4 p24 (ed. Joseph Foster)
ELIZABETH Daughter of Robert Maxwell Dean of Admagh (1) departed this Mortall life the 29th day of August 1635  She is buried in St Patrick's Church in Ardmagh the    of September. She was married to Robert Barkely2 Dean of Clougher by whom sh’ad issue Mary Barkley. The truith of the Prmisses is testified by the Subscription of Henry Maxwell Chancellor of Conner in the county of Antrim taken by me Albon Leveret Athlone officer of Armes to be recorded in the office of ye King of Armes of Ireland.
      HENRY MAXWELL.

ARMS—Arg., a chevron gu. between three mullets az., BERKELEY, impaling, arg., a saltire sa., in base three pellets, MAXWELL.—4820 f. 20.
(1) Second son of Sir John Maxwell, of Calderwood, Scotland, ancestor of the extinct Earls of Farnham and of the present Lord Farnham. See Foster's “Peerage.”
(2) M.A., ordained deacon and priest 9 May 1606, installed Dean of Clogher 21 May 1617.

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Elizabeth (Maxwell) Daniel

Baptism: 19 January 1758, in Clones, county Monaghan, Ireland

Father: John Maxwell

Mother: Jane (Wright) Maxwell

Married: Richard Daniel

Children: Sources:

Henry Maxwell

Father: Robert Maxwell

Married: Jane Echlin, the daughter of Robert Echlin, Bishop of Down and Conner (d. 1635)

Children: Sources:

Henry Maxwell

Father: James Maxwell

Mother: Jane Norris

Married: Margaret Maxwell

Children: Sources:

Henry Maxwell

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Margaret (Echlin) Maxwell

Married: Anne Stewart, daughter of Colonel George Stewart of Culmore, County Donegal.

Children: Occupation: Clergyman. Henry was Rector of Derrynoose, in the diocese of Armagh, and the prebendary of Tynan. He was also Chancellor of Connor from 1635 until 1682.

Death: 1709, at College Hall, county Armagh, Ireland

From Armagh Clergy and Parishes (Leslie, 1911) pp73-4:
1668—Henry Maxwell, MA., inst. Preb. Tynan and R. Derrynoose Jan. 20 (F.F.T.).
   He was the 3rd son of Dr. Robert Maxwell (see above), and m. Anne Stewart and became ancestor of the Earls of Farnham (see Peerages). He was Chancellor of Connor—then worth £200 yearly—from 1635 to 1682. In the Carte Papers, Vol. 21, p. 346, dat. 1647, we read “Henry Maxwell, Archdeacon of Down (sic) and 3 others, deprived by the Presbytery lurke where they can be entertained.”
He lost property amounting to £1,823 in the rebellion of 1641, and his living value £440 a year (Dep. of 1641, T.C.D.). He d. at College Hall in 1709, aged about 100 years. His P. Will, made 8 April, 1709, was proved on 12 May following. He left his eldest son John his leases in Armagh; and reversion of them to his sister Ann Chambers; to his 2nd son Robert his leases from the See of Kilmore; to his niece Phœbe Gillespy £28, owed him by Rev. James Greenshields; to the poor of Tynan £5; son John exor.

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Henry Maxwell

Title: Right Honourable

Birth: 1669

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Jane (Chichester) Maxwell

Married (1st): Jane Maxwell

Married (2nd): Dorothea Brice in 1713. Dorothea was the daughter of Edward Brice of Kilroot, Co. Antrim.

Children: Death: 12 February 1729/30 (OS/NS)

Notes:
Henry Maxwell who succeeded in 1686 expanded the Finnebrogue estate in 1710 by purchasing additional townlands from the Rt Hon. Edward Southwell (the descendant and representative of the extinct earls of Ardglass), and in 1728 acquired the three nearby townlands of Ballyrolly, Lisnamaul and Loughfalcon. These were to have a life of their own, independent of the rest of the Finnebrogue estate, to pass down two successive junior lines of the family, and be leased back to and ultimately part-owned by the main Finnebrogue branch. In 1713, Henry Maxwell's rental income was reckoned at £600 a year.

At the 1715 general election, and possibly on other occasions as well, he aspired to represent Co. Down in parliament. In the end, however, his long career in the House of Commons was spent as MP for a succession of close boroughs controlled by other people: Bangor, 1698-1699, and 1703-1713; Killybegs, Co. Donegal, 1713-1714; and Donegal borough, 1715-1730. On the evidence of his surviving papers, he took a keen interest as a parliamentarian in Revenue matters and was very frequently nominated to serve on committees. So closely was he in politics with the Rt Hon. William Conolly, who was both Chief Commissioner of the Revenue and Speaker of the House of Commons, 1715-1729, that he was nicknamed 'the Speaker's Shadow'. It was Conolly who returned him for Killybegs in 1713. In 1721, he wrote a pamphlet in support of the scheme, abortive at that stage, for establishing a national bank. He was made an Irish Privy Councillor in 1727. He died in 1730.

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Isabella (Maxwell) Walker

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Jane (Chichester) Maxwell

Married: George Walker

Children:
George Walker Monument in Castlecaulfield
The George Walker Monument in Castlecaulfield church, Donaghmore, county Tyrone bears these arms - those of Walker on the left and Barclay on the right.
photo from Irish Heraldry
Notes: A number of 19th and early 20th century published sources state that Isabella, the wife of George Walker, was the daughter of Robert Maxwell of Finnebrogue, which is what is represented here. (Ireland Preserved p320 (John Graham, 1841) makes the connection in description of the Maxwell family and Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 2 pp129-135 (1854); A Compendium of Irish Biography p542 (Alfred Webb, 1878); Armagh Clergy and Parishes pp230-1 (James B. Leslie, 1911) make the statement in descriptions of the Walker family). It has been noted, however, that the monument to George Walker in Castlecaulfield church displays the arms of the Walker and Barclay families, leading some to subscribe to the theory that Isabella was actually Isabella Barclay, perhaps related to Rev. James Barclay, George Walker's predecessor at Donaghmore. Counterpoint is that the arms shown here differ from those on Isabella Walker's will.
Notes and Queries vol 8 p151 (23 August 1913)
  The Rev. George Walker appears to have come to Donaghmore, co. Tyrone, diocese of Armagh, from Lissan, co. Tyrone, in 1674, succeeding the Rev. James Barclay.
  He m. Isabella ——, wrongly stated to have been a Maxwell of Finnebrogue, co. Down. On Donaghmore House, said to have been built by Walker, appears a coat of arms, Lozengy, on a chief a lion passant, impaling a chevron between three crosses pattee, the arms of Barclay. These arms also appear on the mural monument erected by his widow to his memory in Castlecaulfield Church, with the addition of three estoiles charged
upon the chevron. It will be noticed that the arms on the mural monument differ from those on Isabella Walker's will.

Death: 1705

Buried: Castlecaulfield church, Donaghmore, county Tyrone, Ireland
A History of Ireland, from the relief of Londonderry in 1689, to the surrender of Limerick in 1691 pp361-5 (John Graham, 1839)
DISCOVERY AND RE-INTERMENT OF THE REMAINS OF THE REV. GEORGE WALKER, RECTOR OF DONOUGHMORE, AND GOVERNOR OF LONDONDERRY.
...
  On Tuesday, the 16th of October, 1838, the Church of Donaghmore, at Castle Caulfield, being in the process of repair by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, it was found necessary to lower and level the floor of it.
   In that part of the chancel, immediately under the Monument of Governor Walker, the workmen discovered a full-sized oak coffin, containing the remains of his widow, who, in 1703, caused his bones to be brought there from the banks of the Boyne, where his body had been interred and had lain for thirteen years. They were this day found in a small oak box, in which this “widow, indeed,” full of endearing recollections of happier days, had deposited them.
...
   Mr. Carpendale, with Edward Evans, Esq., son of the Rev. George Evans, who had been upwards of thirty years rector of Donoughmore, Alexander Mackenzie, Esq., and a few others, naturally regardful of the remains of this great and good man, caused them to be taken carefully from the decayed box in which they were found, and putting them and those of his widow, into smaller boxes, enclosed both with suitable inscriptions into a leaden coffin, which, being laid in one of deal plank, was solemnly deposited in the hero's grave, by his reverend descendant and successor, assisted by the Rev. John Graham, Author of the History of the Siege of Derry, and also by one of the oldest Apprentice Boys of the maiden city.

Will:
The Siege of London-Derry, in 1689: As Set Forth in the Literary Remains of Colonel the Rev. George Walker, D.D. pp237-9 (Philip Dwyer, 1893)
  In the administration book of the Prerogative Court, Dublin, 1692, is found: “Testamentum originale, Isabellaæ Walker, nuper de Donaghmore, in com. Tyrone, viduæ defunctæ.”
  “In the name of God, Amen, I, Isabella Walker, widow and relict of Dr. George Walker, late of Donaghmore, in the county of Tyrone, being of perfect mind and memory (thanks be to God for it), do make this my last will and testament, revoking all former wills.
  “Imprimis, I bequeath my soul to Almighty God, in the hope of a joyful resurrection, and I desire my body to be buried near to my dearly beloved husband, Dr. George Walker.
  “Item, I appoint and constitute my son, John Walker, my sole exor of this my will, and Francis Neville, Esquire, and Dr. Richard Crump, both of Dungannon, and the co. aforesd, and the survivor of them, overseers and guardians of the same.
  “Item, I give to my son Dinely £1 sterling, and to my daughter Dinely £1 sterling, and to my granddr, Isabella Dinely, £20 ster., the sd several sums of money to be paid to their order in Dublin.
  “Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Wilkinson the yearly sum of eight pounds stg., to be paid to her, or her order, in London by equal parts half-yearly during the whole time she shall live after the death of her husband, Mr. Joseph Wilkinson.
  “Item, I give to my grand-daughter Isabella Wilkinson £10 stg., the money to be paid out at interest, and so to continue till she be disposed of in marriage, or disposed of in any other way out of her father's house, and then the £10, with the interest of it, to be paid to her on her order in London.
  “Item, I give and bequeath to my daughter Wilkinson the sum of £100 stg., to be paid by my exoor two years after my decease, and not before, the said £100 to be equally divided among my sd grand-daughters, Isabella Wilkinson included. And it is my will that this sd money be put out to interest, and so to continue till they, or any of them, be married, or otherwise disposed of out of their father's house, on which occasion they shall be paid in London the proportion of the sd £100, and the interest of the same. And if any of the sd child or children dy (sic) before they are so disposed of, then the part of the sd money wh belonged to him or her shall be equally divided among the children that survive.
  “Item, Whereas my son-in-law, per Joseph Wilkinson, perfected a bond to me for the payment of £100, my will is that my sd exors shall demand and receive from him the sd £100, but no interest for the same to the time of my decease.
  “Item, I forgive and release Eliz. Wright a bond to me which I have from her late husband, Hush (sic), for the payment of £30 more or less to me.
  “Item, I give to my daughter Wright the yearly sum of £8 stg., to be paid by equal portions, half-yearly, to her order in Dublin during her life, and if at her death she shall have any child, or children, of her own body, my will is that the sum of £150 stg. shall be paid to sd child, or children, equally among them in Dublin.
  “Item, I give to my grand-daughter, Isabella Walker, £15 and my gold chain.
  “Item, I give to the poor of the parish of Drumglass £5 stg., to be disposed by the Rector of it.
  “Item, I give six scarfs to the bearers of my body, also one scarf to Rev. M. Arwaker, and one scarf to Rev. Dr. Richard Crump.
  “Item, I bequeath to the sd overseers and guardians of my will a gold ring of the value of a guinea.
  “Item, My will is that each of my overseers shall be repaid all the expenses they shall be at in their discharge of this trust which I repose in them.
  “Item, I give and bequeath all the remaining part of my worldly goods to my son, John Walker, and if he shall dy (sic) without issue, to my daughter Dynely, and the child, or children, of her body. And in witness hereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 18 day of Feb., 1705.
            “Is. W.
      “Witnesses: J. GORDON GER FELTGATE,
          “GEORGE DOUNBAR.”

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Isabella (Maxwell) Graham

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Grace (Leavens) Maxwell

Married: Hector Graham

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Isabella Maxwell

Baptism: 21 January 1781, in Bristol St Augustine, Gloucestershire, England

Father: William Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Massingberd) Maxwell

Death: Isabella died young.

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James Maxwell

Father: Robert Maxwell

Married: Jane Norris

Children: Notes: of Mullatinny, now Elm Park, County Armagh

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James Maxwell

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Margaret (Echlin) Maxwell

Married: Jane Maxwell, his cousin.

Children: Notes: of Fellows Hall, County Armagh

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James Maxwell

Father: John Maxwell

Mother: Isabella Leavens

Occupation: Clergyman.
James was Rector of Tullamore and Multifernan in the diocese of Meath.

Death: c. 1799

Will: proved 1799

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Jane (Maxwell) Maxwell

Father: Henry Maxwell

Mother: Jane (Echlin) Maxwell

Married: James Maxwell, her cousin.

Children: Sources:

Jane (Maxwell) Maxwell

Father: Henry Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Stewart) Maxwell

Married: Henry Maxwell

Death: 20 February 1711

Notes: of Derrynoose, Armagh.

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Jane (Maxwell) Carpendale

of Falkland, county Monaghan, Ireland

Birth: 1762/3

Father: John Maxwell

Mother: Jane (Wright) Maxwell

Married: Thomas William Carpendale on 29 July 1782 at Tamlaght, Tandragee, county Down, Ireland

Children:
English Street, Armagh
Postcard showing an old view of English Street, Armagh
Death: 11 March 1835, in Armagh, Ireland, aged 72

Notes:
Jane is likely the Mrs. Jane Carpendale who is listed in Bradshaw's 1819 Directory for Armagh City, living on English Street.

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John Maxwell

of Calderwood, in Scotland

Title: Sir

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Sibella (Carmichael) Maxwell

Married: Elizabeth Hamilton

Children: Death: 1571

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John Maxwell

Farnham House
Farnham House (before its redesign in the 1970's. It was surely added to and redesigned substantially since the initial build by John Maxwell.
image from http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cavanno1/FarnhamEstate.htm
Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Margaret (Echlin) Maxwell

Death: 1713

Notes: Built the house at Farnham, County Cavan, and resided there.

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John Maxwell

Title: Baron Farnham of Farnham, County Cavan

Father: Henry Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Stewart) Maxwell

Married: Judith Barry in 1719. Judith was the daughter and heir of James Barry of Newton Barry, County Wexford.

Children: Death: 1759

Notes: John represented the county of Cavan in Parliament from 1727 until his elevation to the peerage of Ireland on 6 May 1756.

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John Maxwell

Birth: 1680/1, in county Armagh, Ireland

Father: William Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Walker) Maxwell

Education: Trinity College Dublin
Alumni Dublinenses p567 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935):
MAXWELL, JOHN, Pen. (Mr Harvey), Sept. 26, 1699, aged 18; s. of William, Generosus; b. Co. Armagh.

Occupation: Army Officer

Notes:
The Peerage of Ireland p393 (John Lodge, 1789)
John, (an officer in the army, who served in Spain under his maternal kinsman General Stanhope, and there died)

Death: in Spain
John's death likely occurred around 1710, during James Stanhope's campaign in Spain, during the War of the Spanish Succession.

Sources:

John Maxwell

of Falkland, county Monaghan

Birth: 1705/6, at Falkland, county Monaghan, Ireland

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Sarah (Waring) Maxwell

Education: Trinity College Dublin. John entered Trinity College on 13 May 1721, aged 15, and obtained his B.A. in 1725 and M.A. in 1728. He was awarded B.D. and D.D. (Doctor of Divinity) in 1753.
Alumni Dublinenses p567 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935)
MAXWELL, JOHN, Pen. (Mr Knolles, in his father's house), May 13, 1721, aged 15; s. of Robert, Armiger; b. Falkland, Co. Mongahan. B.A. Vern. 1725. M.A. Æst. 1728. B.D. and D.D. Vern 1753. [Archdeacon of Clogher.] See Foster.

Alumni Oxonienses 1715-1886 vol III p933 (Joseph Foster, 1891)
Maxwell, John, B.A. TRINITY COLL., Dublin, 1725; incorp. from ST. JOHN'S COLL. 22 or 23 Nov., 1726, created M.A. 7 July, 1727; M.A. TRINITY COLL., Dublin, 1728, B. & D.D. 1755, son of Robert F. Maxwell, of Falkland, co. Monaghan (? preb. of Connor 1721-59), archdeacon of Clogher 1762-83, died in 1784. See Cotton's Fasti v. 218.

Married (1st): Isabella Leavens, probably in 1728 or 1729

The deed transcribed by Alison Kilpatrick below was drawn up in July 1828 between John's family, the Leavans family and a third party. It mentions Isabella as a Leavans (rather than a Maxwell), but grants her survivorship benefits if she survives John Maxwell. I conclude that this must be part of the marriage settlement between John and Isabella, and the marriage would typically take place fairly shortly thereafter.
Memorial no. 61-358-41613: Maxwell of co. Monaghan and Fellowshall, co. Armagh to Lucas of Castleshane

No 41613  To the Register appointed for Registring Deeds &c.
Maxwell to Lucas et al
Reg'rd [2] the 14'th day of Oct 1729 at 2 [sic] an hour after 5 oClock in the Afternoon

  A Memoriall of a Tripartite Deed Indented bearing date the Twelfth day of July One Thousand Seven hundred Twenty Eight Between Robert Maxwell of Ffalkland in the County of Monaghan Esq'r and John Maxwell Gent. Son and heir of the said Robert Maxwell of the first part  Francis Lucas and Edward Lucas of Castle Shane in the said County Esq'rs of the second pt [part] and the Rev'd Doct'r Rob't Maxwell of Ffellowshall in the County of Ardmagh  the Rev'd John Leavans of Clamore in the County of Louth Clke [Clerk]  Isabella Leavans Daughter of the said John Leavens [sic] of the Third part
... Whereby the said Robert Maxwell for the Considerations therein menconed [mentioned] did bargain Sell release and Confirm unto the said Francis Lucas and Edward Lucas the Town Lands which the said Robert Maxwell holds by Lease from his Grace the Lord Primate of Ireland called and known by the Denomination of Ballaree Ballymarron Killifaddee Ballybraly Segahan and Tullymore in the County of Ardmagh with the right of renewall and all the Rents Issues and profits thereunto belonging
... To the use of him the said Rob't Maxwell for life and after his Decease to the use of the said John Maxwell for life Subject to an Annuity of Twenty pounds Ster [Sterling] PAnn [Per Annum] to the said Isabella if she Survives the said John
... and the said Robert Maxwell did thereby Covenant to and with the said Francis Lucas and Edward Lucas their Ex'rs [Executors] Adm'rs [Administrators] and Ass' [Assigns] that he the said John Maxwell shall have and Receive out of the six Tates or Townlands of Ffalkland and the before mentioned Lands the Annuall Sum of fifty Pounds Ster towards his Maintenance during the Naturall Lives of the said Rob't Maxwell and Sarah his wife
... and after the Decease of the surv'r of them the said Six towne Lands of Ffalkland comonly [sic] Called Letate Broughmore Dromgarn Aghamishlan Dromsheeny and Drommarrell [5] and the aforementioned Lands shall go and Enure to the said John Maxwell and the heirs Male of his body lawfully Housing Severally and Successively One after another the Elder of such Sons and the heirs Male of his body and for want of such Issue then to the Right heirs of the said John Maxwell for ever
... which said Deed is Witnessed by Patrick Duffy of the Towne of Monaghan Gent  Ann Bell of Ffellowshall in the County of Ardmagh and by Thomas Simson Servant to the aforesaid Robert Maxwell
... and this Mem'l [Memorial] is Likwise [sic] Witnessed by the above named Patrick Duffy and Tho's Simpson [sic] the fourth day of August 1729
     __ Robert Maxwell (seal) __
... Signed and Sealed in the presence of
     __ Patt Duffy __ Thom: Simson __
... The above named Thomas Simpson maketh Oath that he saw the Deed of which the above Writing is a Mem'l duly Executed by Robert Maxwell and all the rest of the partys above named Except Francis Lucas and also saw him the said Robert Maxwell Signe and Seal the said Memoriall and that he this Dep't [Deponent] is a Subscribing Witness to the s'd Deed and Mem'l
     __ Thom Simson, Jur cor me Jn Cur [ad?] General Assiz tent apud Monaghan 4° die Aug'st 1729
     __ J: Pocklington __x

Isabella was the daughter of Rev. John Leavens of Ardee, county Louth. She was the sister of Grace Leavens who married Robert Maxwell, the son of of Henry Maxwell and Anne Stewart.

Children: Married (2nd): Jane Wright

Children: Occupation: Clergyman.
John was ordained priest on 20 September 1730, and rose to be Archdeacon of Clogher, a position he held from 1762 until 1783. John may have been the J.M., who was C. St. Catherine’s Dublin, 1732; C. Clontibret, 1735. He was V. Donagh, 1738-46, R. Aughnamullen 1746-62, R. and V. Rossory 1764-8, R. Drummully, c. 1763 to 1783, holding it with the Archdeaconry of Clogher.

Clogher Clergy and Parishes p46 (Rev James B Leslie, 1929)
     ARCHDEACONS.
1762- John Maxwell, coll. Nov. 12 (D.R.)  He was the eldest son of Robert M., of Falkland (son of Robert M., Bp of Kilmore) was b. at Falkland. Ed. by Mr. Knolles, in his father’s house, ent. T.C.D. May 13, 1721, aged 15, B.A. 1725, M.A. 1728, B.D. and D.D. 1753. He may have been the J. M., who was C. St. Catherine’s, Dublin, 1732; C. Clontibret, 1735. He was V. Donagh, 1738-46, R. Aughnamullen 1746-62, R. and V. Rossory 1764-8, R. Drummully, c. 1763 to 1783, holding it with this Archdeaconry. He m (1) Jane, dau. of Thos. Wright, and had issue—3 daus.; m. (2) Isabella, dau of Rev. John Leavons, Co. Louth, and by her had issue—Rev. William D.D., R. of Kilcleagh and Ballyloughloe (Meath); Rev. James, R. of Tullamore, and another son. (See B.L.G. and Peerages, “Farnham.”). He res. in 1783 (D.R.) and d. in 1784, in which year his P. Will was proved.

Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae vol 3 p92 (Henry Cotton, 1849)
1762. JOHN MAXWELL, D.D. (grandson of Bishop Robert Maxwell, of Kilmore) (ordained priest, 20th September, 1730); collated November 12th (FF.) He resigned in 1783. 

Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae Illustrations, Corrections and Additions vol 5 p218 (Henry Cotton, 1860)
P. 92, l. 17.—John Maxwell was eldest son of Robert F. Maxwell, of Falkland, Co. Monaghan, Esq. He died in 1784, leaving the Rev. William M., D.D., Rector of Mount Temple, Co. Meath (who died at Bath, in January, 1819, aged 87), the Rev. James Maxwell, M.A., Rector of Tullamore and Multifernan, diocese of Meath; and another son.—[U. O.]

Notes: John succeeded his father at Falkland, county Monaghan.

Death: 1783

Will: proved 3 January 1784

Sources:

John Robert Maxwell

Father: John Maxwell

Mother: Isabella Leavens

Married: Grace (Johnston) Corry on 2 February 1776 in Dublin St Mary, county Dublin, Ireland
Jno. Maxwell is recorded as Lt-Col of 27 Foot. Grace is recorded as Mrs. Grace Corry.

from Perceval Maxwell Papers p8
In 1776, [Col. John Maxwell] married a landed widow, Mrs Grace Corry, and her property, in Cos Fermanagh, Monaghan and Tyrone, was settled on the issue of their marriage, with remainder to herself. There was no issue: as she later complained in 1779, when seeking a divorce, Colonel Maxwell, in spite of 'repeated efforts for the purpose', had 'never consummated the said marriage, but appears totally impotent'. She also complained that, in the previous year, he had induced her to re-settle her estate on him, in failure of issue; and that she had subsequently discovered that he had made a will by which he had left his remainder in fee in her estate to his nephews and nieces, leaving to her nothing but 'a small island on the coast of North America at ... [that] time ... actually in the hands of the insurgents'. It is unclear if Mrs Maxwell obtained her divorce and reacquired her landed property.

Occupation: Army officer, and Governor of the Bahamas
Perceval Maxwell Papers p8
He was probably the John Maxwell who was promoted to be Major in the 15th Regiment of Foot in 1771, and he was later Colonel of the 27th Infantry. His papers contain important documentation of the American invasion of Canada in 1775-1776, when he was on the staff of Sir Guy Carleton, Governor of Quebec. Thereafter, he was Governor of the Bahamas.

John was a lieutenant in the 15th Regiment of Foot when he was wounded in the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City on 13 September 1759. He was promoted to captain on 4 May 1760 (Loyalist & British Muster Rolls for 15th Regiment of Foot). In October 1763 John is recorded stationed in Quebec. He was promoted to major on 13 August 1771 (The Scots Magazine August 1771 p447).
Historical record of the Fifteenth, or the Yorkshire East Riding Regiment of Foot pp44-6 (Richard Cannon, 1848)
[1759]  From Louisburg the regiment sailed in the beginning of June, 1759, with the expedition against Quebec, under Major-General JAMES WOLFE; and was formed in brigade with the forty-third, forty-eighth, and seventy-eighth foot, under Brigadier General Monckton. Towards the end of June, the army landed at Orleans,—a large, fertile, and well-cultivated island in the river St. Lawrence, below Quebec, and commenced preparations for carrying on the object of the expedition.
... The FIFTEENTH foot, and three other regiments, were detached under Brigadier-General Monckton, against Point Levi, on the east shore of the river, from whence a body of the enemy was driven ; at the same time a body of troops, under Colonel Carleton, took possession of the western point of the island of Orleans, and both these posts were fortified. Sixteen hundred of the enemy attempted to retake Point Levi, but were repulsed ; and a mortar battery, constructed at that post, fired on Quebec, destroying the lower town, and damaging the upper town. Having finished the works on the island of Orleans, the army crossed the north channel of the river in boats, and landed below the splendid waterfalls of Montmorenci ; and arrangements were made for attacking the enemy's position beyond the river Montmorenci, in which the FIFTEENTH regiment was ordered to co-operate.
  As the regiment was crossing the river in boats from Point Levi, the grenadiers effected a landing, and commenced the action prematurely, before their formation was completed and before the troops designed to sustain them had arrived ; and they were repulsed. They re-formed behind the corps from Point Levi, the FIFTEENTH and seventy-eighth ; but the excess of ardour, without sufficient attention to discipline, occasioned the loss of five hundred officers and men, and the failure of the operation.
  Difficulties, calculated to perplex and discourage the most resolute and intelligent commander, presented themselves ; but the English general evinced talent and perseverance. No prospect of final success, by advancing across the river Montmorenci, presenting itself, the troops re-embarked and proceeded to Point Levi ; they afterwards sailed a considerable distance up the river ; but it was found impossible to annoy the enemy above the town. A desperate resolution was subsequently formed, to retire a little down the river, land in the night within a league of Cape Diamond, ascend the heights of Abraham, and gain possession of the ground at the back of the city.
  At midnight on the 12th of September, the troops went on board the boats, and at one o'clock the first division moved down the river ; an officer who spoke the French language, answering the challenges of the enemy's sentries on the shore. A landing was effected : the officers and men climbed the steep woody precipice, pulling themselves up by roots and branches of trees with admirable courage and activity, dislodged a captain's guard, and gained the heights. The FIFTEENTH and other corps followed.
  When the French general was informed that the English had gained the heights of Abraham, he instantly collected his forces and advanced to give battle ; and Major-General Wolfe, observing the approach of the hostile troops, formed line, the FIFTEENTH being posted in reserve. The enemy manifesting a design against the British left, the FIFTEENTH were removed to that flank by Brigadier-General Townshend, and were formed en potence, presenting two fronts to the enemy.
  About nine o'clock the action commenced, and was particularly severe on the right, at which point the British regiments behaved with extraordinary gallantry, charging with bayonets, and overthrowing all opposition. In the midst of the action, Major-General Wolfe was
shot in the breast, and he expired at the moment of victory. Brigadier-General Monckton was also wounded, and the command devolved on Brigadier-General Townshend, who had scarcely formed the troops after the pursuit, when a fresh body of the enemy appeared in his rear : he detached two regiments against them, and the enemy fled to the woods. The French commander, the Marquis of Montcalm, was mortally wounded; and his second in command, Brigadier-General de Senezergue, was wounded and taken prisoner, and he died on board an English ship on the following day.
  This victory was gained with the loss of about fifty men killed, and five hundred wounded ; but the fall of Major-General JAMES WOLFE was a national loss.
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After this victory, preparations were made for prosecuting the siege of Quebec ; but further loss of life was prevented by the surrender of the garrison.
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The loss of the regiment in the several actions near Quebec, was one surgeon's mate, two Serjeants, and eleven rank and file killed; Major Paulus Armil Irving, Captain Arthur Loftus, Lieutenants Samuel Rutherford, John Maxwell, senior, John Maxwell junior, William Skeane, Robert Ross, James Leslie, Lieut. and Adjutant Francis Mekins, Ensigns Edmund Wroth, Samuel Baker, nine serjeants, one drummer, and ninety-seven rank and file, wounded.
  The Lieut.-Colonel of the FIFTEENTH foot, Colonel Honorable James Murray, was rewarded with the appointment of Colonel-commandant of a battalion of the sixtieth regiment, and Governor of Quebec, in which fortress the FIFTEENTH were stationed during the winter, and they suffered severely from scurvy, occasioned by living constantly on salt provisions.
[1760]  Resolving, if possible, to regain possession of Quebec, a French force, commanded by the Chevalier de Louis, advanced from Montreal towards the end of April, 1760; the enemy attempted to cut off the British outposts, but was frustrated by the advance of the piquets, the grenadiers, and the FIFTEENTH regiment.
  Brigadier-General Murray led the garrison of Quebec forward to meet the enemy, whom he engaged on the 28th of April, near the village of Sillery, and gained some advantage; but the superior numbers of the enemy rendered a retreat necessary, which was executed
in good order.
  The enemy besieged Quebec, and the FIFTEENTH regiment had the honour of taking part in a successful defence of that important fortress. The governor stated in his despatch, ' I flatter myself the extraordinary performances of the handful of brave men I had left, will please His Majesty as much as they surprised us, who were eye-witnesses of them.' While the garrison was making a resolute defence, a British naval force arrived in the river, destroyed the enemy's vessels near the town, and cannonaded their lines. On the morning of the 17th of May, the FIFTEENTH were under arms, to make a sally on the besieging force ; but the French camp was found empty, and the tents standing. A pursuit was ordered, and some prisoners and baggage were captured.
  In June a detachment of the regiment advanced up the river, in vessels, to co-operate with the troops under General Sir Jeffery Amherst, in an attack on the French army at Montreal. The British advanced upon Montreal from three different points, and by a well-
arranged combination the whole were united before that place in the early part of September. The French governor, the Marquis of Vaudreuil, being unable to withstand the British arms, surrendered ; and the conquest of Canada was thus accomplished.
  After this success, the regiment was assembled at Montreal, and it was one of the corps which occupied that place for several months.
[1761]  In the spring of 1761, the regiment proceeded up Lake Champlain in boats, marched from the shore of the lake to Albany, and afterwards sailed down the Hudson river to New York. In June it was encamped on Staten Island, and in October sailed for Barbadoes, where an expedition was assembled under Major-General Monckton, for an attack on the French island of Martinique, and the FIFTEENTH was one of the corps selected for this service.
[1762]  The expedition sailed from Carlisle bay on the 5th of January, 1762, and a landing was effected on the island of Martinique in the middle of that month. The FIFTEENTH were actively employed in the operations necessary to bring the enemy to submission, and some severe fighting took place, in which the regiment had several men killed and wounded ; Captain Prescott and Lieutenant Leslie, being among the latter. The governor, M. Le Vassor de la Touche, surrendered the island in February,
  War having been declared against Spain, the regiment was attached to the armament under General the Earl of Albemarle, destined to attack the valuable settlement of the Havannah, on the island of Cuba. Passing through the straits of Bahama, the expedition arrived within six leagues of the Havannah on the 6th of June ; a landing was effected on the following day ; and on the 9th, the troops took up a position between Coximar and the Moro, a fort which it was deemed necessary to besiege and capture before an attack was made on the town. In this service, great hardships had to be endured ; a thin soil, hardly sufficient to cover the troops in their approaches, a scarcity of water, and the labour of dragging the artillery several miles over a rocky country, and under a burning sun, called forth the efforts of the army and navy. The works were carried on, the sallies of the enemy were repulsed, and the Moro fort was captured by storm on the 30th of July. A series of batteries were erected against the town; and on the 11th of August they opened so well-directed a fire, that the guns of the garrison were silenced, and flags of truce were hung out from the town, and ships in the harbour. The terms of capitulation were agreed upon, and the British took possession of this valuable settlement, with nine men of war in the harbour, and two upon the stocks.
  The regiment lost a number of men on this important service ; Lieutenant Skene was among the killed ; Captain Tyrwhitt and Lieutenant Winter died from the effects of climate.
  After the capture of the Havannah, the regiment was stationed at that place eleven months.
[1763]  In the meantime a treaty of peace had been concluded, and in 1763 the Havannah was restored to Spain; the regiment was relieved by the Spanish troops which arrived to take possession of the colony, and embarked for New York, from whence it proceeded, by Albany and Lake Champlain, to Canada, where it was stationed several years.
[1764] After occupying quarters successively at Montreal, Quebec, and on the upper lakes, until the summer of 1768, the regiment embarked for England, and landed at Portsmouth in July.
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[1769]  The regiment occupied various quarters in the southern and midland counties of England, until the summer of 1770, when it was reviewed at Chatham by King George III. and in the spring of 1771 marched into Yorkshire.
[1772]  In 1772 the regiment marched to Scotland, where it was stationed during the following year, and in the spring of 1774 it embarked at Port Patrick for Ireland.

On 11 November 1775 John was promoted from major in the 15th to lieutenant-colonel in the 27th Regiment of Foot  (British Army Orders Gen. Sir William Howe 1775-1778 p330). He was lieutenant-colonel in the 27th Regiment of Foot in the Battle of Long Island on 27 August 1776, the first major battle between the British and Americans to take place after the United States declared its independence. John held the same rank in February 1777 when he presided at the court martial of Patrick Snow, finding Snow guilty of desertion and sentencing him to receive three hundred lashes on his bare back with a Cat of nine tails. On 5 October 1777, Lt-Col John Maxwell was briefly transferred from the 27th to the 15th Regiment of Foot, replacing Lt-Col John Bird who had been killed at the Battle of Germantown in an American counterattack after the taking of Philadelphia (Collections of the New York Historical Society p515), then transferred back to the 27th Regiment on 20 January 1778 (The Scots Magazine January 1778 p55).

Colburn's United Service Magazine vol 123 p375 (1870)
Historical Records of the Services of H.M. 27th (or Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot
  On the 26th September [1775] the transports, with the 27th on board, sailed from Cork and arrived at Boston towards the end of October, where they remained until the following March, when they retired with the remainder of the British army to Halifax. In July, 1776, the forces removed to Staten Island, where the army destined for General Howe's command assembled. In August the first brigade (Major-General's Pigot's) consisting of the 4th, 15th, 27th, and 45th Regiments, opened the campaign by landing on Long Island, and in the action near Brookyln the 27th formed part of the right wing of the army under General Clinton, which bore the brunt of the battle. The Inniskillings also took part in the subsequent operations of the army against New York, in the battle of White Plains, in the affairs of Fort Washington and King's Bridge, and at the reduction of Rhode Island.
  During 1777 the 27th took no part in active warfare, except in some foraging expeditions, it being with the division of the army under Major-General Sir Robert Pigot, which was not employed in the campaign of this year.
  In 1778 Major-General Massey was colonel of the 27th, John Maxwell being the lieut.-colonel, and the major, Henry Conran. In this year it was employed under Colonel Manhood in an expedition to the Jersey coast, as likewise in the affairs of Quintin's Bridge and Hancock's Bridge. On the evacuation of Philadelphia in July it returned with General Clinton to New York.
  In November, Count d'Estaing with the French fleet having quilted Boston and sailed for the West Indies, Major-General Grant was at once despatched by Sir Henry Clinton with a force for the protection of our islands in that quarter. This body of troops was composed of the following regiments, viz.: 4th, 5th, 15th, 27th, 28th, 35th, 40th, 46th, 49tli and 55th. The expedition sailed from Sandy Hook on the 3rd November under Commodore Hotham, arriving safely at Barbadoes on the 10th of December. Here, at a council of war, the plan of debarkation for the capture of St. Lucia was decided upon, the fleet sailing from Barbadoes for their new destination on the 12th. On the evening of the 13th the army, under Major-General Grant, landed at St. Lucia near the Grand Cul-de-sac Bay, and on the morning of the 14th took possession of Morne Fortune with all the stores and magazines belonging to the Island. But not an hour too soon, as the French fleet under Count d'Estaing was in sight, and on the following morning stood in for the Carenage. On the 18th he landed at the head of 9,000 men, and on the following day with this force attacked General Meadow's Brigade, consisting of five regiments and the flank companies of the army, which had taken up a strong position on the Vigie. The French attacked in three columns, but after a desperate encounter were repulsed with great loss and retreated in confusion, taking protection under the guns of their ships. The Count d'Estaing, beaten at all poinis, embarked with his troops on the 28th of the same month and sailed away, leaving St. Lucia to its fate, when M. de Micond, the Governor, and the inhabitants capitulated to the British arms.
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  From the date of capture until the following July [1779], the 27th remained at St. Lucia, when it was ordered to proceed to the relief of Grenada, and thus was present at the sea action of the 6th off Grenada that took place between the French and British fleets under the Count d'Estaing and Admiral Byron. The attempt to succour Grenada having failed, the troops sailed for St. Christopher's, and shortly afterwards the 27th returned to St. Lucia, where it remained till 1781, suffering, however, most severely from fever, its loss during the period in officers and men being very great.

Articles of Capitulation Bahamas May 1782
Articles of Capitulation of the Bahamas to the Spanish fleet agreed by the Governor, John Maxwell, on 3 May 1782
posted at Bahamianology
John was appointed Governor of the Bahama Isles in 1780. On 8 May 1782, with the Royal Navy distracted by wars against America and France, he surrendered the islands to an attacking Spanish fleet led by Juan Manuel de Cagigal, captain general of Havana. Maxwell has been criticized for not putting up a fight against the Spaniards, but the terms of capitulation he negotiated were extremely favourable to the local population, securing the protection of civilian property and religious expression. John was taken to Havana as a hostage, but soon released on parole. On 19 April 1783 the Bahamas were recaptured by a Loyalist force led by Andrew Deveaux who installed himself as acting Governor. The Spanish returned the Bahamas to Britain by treaty dated 3 September 1783 and John Maxwell returned to the Bahamas and was re-installed as Governor late in 1783.
Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People pp168-172 (Michael Craton, Gail Saunders, 2011)
Under Governor Maxwell, Nassau enjoyed a brief revival as a privateering base, at least twenty-seven enemy prizes being condemned in the vice-admiralty court during 1780 and 1781. This brought renewed prosperity for some but was dangerous for the colony as a whole. ...
  Ironically, Maxwell had cobbled together the most substantial defense force that Nassau had yet seen. The 247 regular troops (mainly "invalids" from the fighting on the mainland) and 338 militiamen were augmented by 800 armed sailors in a dozen privateering vessels, deploying 150 cannon in all. Yet the defense was deemed futile against the overwhelming armada which appeared off Nassau on May 6, 1782, under the command of Don Antonio Claraco y Sanz, and Maxwell accepted honorable surrender terms without a fight. The Bahamas were declared to be under Spanish suzerainty, though the inhabitants were guaranteed protection for themselves and their property, and the exercise of their chosen religion. The governor and other officials were sent to Havana as hostages, though soon released on parole.
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As peace negotiations were begun late in 1782 it became clear that while Britain might give back East and West Florida to the Spaniards, she would regain the Bahamas. ... This was well known, at least in outline, by English and Spanish alike, in Florida and the Bahamas, by the end of March. Yet it did not forestall the pre-emptive strike against Nassau by the first and most aggressive of the Loyalists, Colonel Andrew Deveaux, in April 1893.
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The decision to surrender was probably based mainly on Claraco's sense of the futility and inhumanity of resistance when the handover of the Bahamas had already been ordained at Versailles. Accordingly, Claraco received terms as generous and gentlemanly as those given to Maxwell just under a year earlier. To the great relief of the Nassauvians, the six hundred occupying troops and their camp followers sailed back to Havana within a few days, paving the way for the return of Governor Maxwell later in 1783.
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Even the governor still lived in a rented house—built by Fitzwilliam at his own expense and leased by his heirs—though this was the most imposing residence in Nassau, commanding the highest point of the coastal ridge and recently fortified by Don Antonio Claraco.

John's second stint as governor was a tumultuous time as a large number of loyalists emigrated from the United States at the end of the American War of Independence, nearly tripling the population of the Bahamas. Maxwell struggled with the influx, particularly questions of land grants, the status of some of the black population especially those whose slavery status was uncertain after various promises made during the American War, and most urgently with the island's lack of resources to provide for the large new population. Many of the Loyalists feuded with the governor, who they felt favoured the older native inhabitants of the islands, and was ineffectual in complying with their demands.

Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People p179 (Michael Craton, Gail Saunders, 2011)
  In an oft-quoted passage, Governor John Maxwell in May 1784 distinguished two basic types of Loyalist arriving in the Bahamas:"(a) Farmers who have set themselves down on the out Islands with large families and from 10 to 100 slaves each. These merit particular attention. (b) Officers, merchants and people who hope to return to the continent after peace there—nothing can satisfy this lot. They demand everything immediately—land, stores and employment, in fact they almost wish to take over the government. . . . These are the most tormenting, Dissatisfied people on earth."
pp189-90
One Loyalist planter ... described Governor John Maxwell as "ignorant, illiterate and Avaricious, full of low Duplicity of Conduct and really uncapable of well governing a private Family, much less so a large Body of People as the Bahama Islands now contains." Maxwell certainly lacked capabilities, but he was also unlucky. He had pressed the British government on the land question and the need for supplies before leaving England but awaited further instructions in vain. Some supplies reached Nassau from Barbados and Ireland, but the ship with the largest consignment from England was wrecked coming over Nassau harbor bar. To relieve the dearth of provisions, Maxwell opened Nassau to mainland traders, only to have a Loyalist mob tear down the American colors.
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  Andrew Deveaux and other pioneer Loyalists already sat in the 1784 assembly, but the majority of the white newcomers felt themselves almost totally unrepresented, Somewhat ironically for alleged Loyalists, they stood on the principles of representation which had motivated the mainland republicans, behaving in a manner that allowed theor opponents to claim that they plotted treason and succession. The leader of the radicals was James Hepburn, former attorney general of East Florida, who formed a Board of Loyalists to promote their cause through public meetings and handbills, and most of all in the columns of Nassau's first newspaper. This was the Bahama Gazette, a weekly founded in August 1784 by John Wells, an ambitious bookseller and printer from Charleston, South Carolina.
  Governor Maxwell vacillated between petulance and concession but was unable to either quell or to conciliate the opposition. Hepburn and other Loyalist lawyers complained of being excluded from practice in the Bahamian courts, but when Maxwell tried to appoint several as magistrates they refused to stand. Some of the Loyalists made such a set at Chief Justice Atwood that Maxwell closed down the general court. But at the same time the governor signed a decree that there would be a major revision of constituencies for the next assembly. ...
  At the next general election held between December 1784 and February 1785, at least nine of the Hepburn faction were elected for the new seats, including James Hepburn himself for Cat Island. However, the dissidents remained outnumbered by old inhabitants and moderate Loyalists and immediately challenged the election's validity, at the same time redoubling their demands for Maxwell's recall. In exasperation the governor threw in his hand and sailed for England, leaving James Powell, himself a Loyalist, as acting governor, to face the new assembly.

Loyalist Influence in Nassau
After the American revolutionary War ended in 1783, an influx of British loyalists migrated to Nassau.  Mainly coming from the Southern Colonies, around two thousand loyalists and their enslaved servants moved to the Bahamas between 1783 and 1789. The new immigrants largely centered themselves in Nassau. Despite arriving at an English colony, their transition into Nassauvian life was by no means peaceful. The 1784 decision of then-Governor John Maxwell to make Nassau a free port sparked immense ire among the loyalists, who largely held that the decision would increase American influence in the city.  This immediately provoked an uprising on the part of the loyalist population in Nassau. That summer, conditions in the city turned into what one historian describes as a scene of  "disloyalty, licentiousness, and anarchy". Tensions were palpable on New Providence, so much so that the overthrow of the municipal government seemed a distinct possibility.

Caribbean Contraband, Slave Property,and the State, 1767-1792 p258 (Alan L. Karras)
With the cessation of hostilities, prizes taken during the war generally remained in the hands of their captors who—after paying the state its share—could do with them as they pleased. Slaves who had been seized, however, posed a much thornier legal problem.
  In 1784, the Bahamian House of Assembly raised what it considered to be a sensitive issue with the colony's governor. During the recently concluded war, slaves who "belonged" to British, French, Spanish, Dutch, and American owners had all been captured. After the war, many of the slaves so acquired were offered for sale, despite their status as stolen property, and often without regard to promises of freedom that had been made to them during the hostilities. The sales of such slaves were deemed legal in some instances. In other cases, local officials had questions about whether or not disposing of confiscated slave property without reference to the original owner—even that which had been legally taken as the spoils of war—was permissible under the law. As Bahamian Governor John Maxwell elaborated:
Great bargains have been obtained to the very great prejudice of the first possessors, who are now our friends, and in particular with respect to these slaves so fraudulently obtained to the Disgrace of Christians. (In the discussion of this subject) two questions arise, 1st Is the property in the slave so acquired Legal? 2nd Are we bound to Honour to return the slave to the first owner?
   In other words, should French, Spanish, or American slaves seized and sold in the Bahamas during the war be returned to their original owners in Hispaniola or on the mainland now that peace had been restored? To what degree must slave property revert to its original owners, even property that was "legally" obtained during wartime?

John technically remained as governor until October 1787, although he never returned to the Bahamas which was ruled on the ground by two acting governors, James Powell who died after a year in office, and John Brown. John Murray, the Earl of Dunmore, became governor in October 1787.

Notes:
A settlement on Abaco island in the Bahamas was named Maxwell Town for John Maxwell, although the town existed under that name for a only few years before becoming Maxwell Marsh Harbour Town, and then just Marsh Harbour, by which name it is known today. In 1785, the population of Maxwell Town was listed around 210 (Notable Abaco Dates p1).
Islanders in the Stream: A History of the Bahamian People p186 (Michael Craton, Gail Saunders, 2011)
A section of the townsfolk had thrown off the authority of Thomas Stephens and other militia officers and appointed a rival board of police. Then, when they feared retribution from General MacArthur and his detachment of of the Thirty-Seventh Regiment, they deserted Carleton Town to form a rival settlement eighteen miles southeast at Marsh's Harbour. This, in an attempt at conciliation, they christened Maxwell Town, after the recently returned governor of the Bahamas. 

Perceval Maxwell Papers p41
An isolated item relating to London is a lease to Colonel John Maxwell of Falkland, Co. Monaghan, of a house in Leicester Square, London, 1783. D1556 also includes the extraordinary case papers of 1779 about Colonel Maxwell's matrimonial disputes, together with a quantity of additional military, business and personal papers, 1767-1790, among them further American War of Independence papers, 1774-1776, and a few letters and papers relating to the Bahamas, 1780-1789.

Death: c. 1790

Will: proved 1790
John had no children, and almost all his property was passed to his sister's son, John Waring, who had married another of his sister's daughters, Dorothea Maxwell.

Sources:

John Maxwell

Birth: 1781, in Bristol, Somerset, England

Baptism: 15 July 1781, in Clifton, Gloucestershire, England

Father: William Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Massingberd) Maxwell

Notes: John was mentally ill (a "lunatic" in the parlance of the day), and never married.

Death: 29 November 1861, in Torquay, Devon, England, aged 80
The Gentleman's Magazine January 1862 p107
OBITUARY
At Torquay, aged 80, John, only son of the late Rev. William Maxwell, D.D., of Falkland, co. Monaghan, and of Bath.

Probate: Administration of John's estate was granted on 20 January 1862 to Anna Maria Maxwell Hogg
England Calendar of Wills 1862 p321
MAXWELL John. Effects under £30,000. 20 January. Letters of Administration of the Personal estate and effects of John Maxwell late of Torquay in the County of Devon Bachelor deceased who died 20 November 1861 at Torquay aforesaid were granted at the Principal Registry to Anna Maria Maxwell Hogg (Wife of the Reverend John Roughton Hogg, Clerk) of Torquay aforesaid the Niece and one of the Next of Kin of the said Deceased she having been first sworn.

Ireland Calendar of Wills 1865 p131
MAXWELL John.  Effects in Ireland under £98 6s. 4d. 1 June.  John Maxwell late of Torquay Devonshire in England a Bachelor deceased. Died 29 November 1861. Letters of Administration granted herein at Principal Registry London 23 January 1862. Resealed at Principal Registry Dublin 1 June 1865.

Census:
1841: Walcot, Somerset
1851: Brixham, Devon; John Maxwell,  Visitor (of Henry Lyte)
1861: Mount Hermonel, Tormoham, Devon

Sources:

Margaret (Maxwell) Maxwell

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Margaret (Echlin) Maxwell

Married: Henry Maxwell

Children: Sources:

Margaret (Maxwell, Maxwell) Butler

Father: Henry Maxwell

Mother: Margaret (Maxwell) Maxwell

Married (1st): Sir Robert Maxwell, of Orchardtown

Married (2nd): James Butler

Children: Sources:

Margaret (Maxwell) Tew

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Grace (Leavens) Maxwell

Married: John Tew

Children: Sources:

Margaret Maxwell

Father: John Maxwell

Mother: Isabella (Leavens) Maxwell

Sources:

Mary (Maxwell) Close

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Grace (Leavens) Maxwell

Married: Maxwell Close, of Elm Park

Sources:

Patrick Maxwell

Birth: 1721

Father: Henry Maxwell

Mother: Dorothea (Brice) Maxwell

Death: 1749

Notes:
Patrick succeeded to the estate at Finnebrogue, but died unmarried and the estate passed to his younger brother, Robert.

Sources:

Robert Maxwell

Title: Very Reverend

Father: John Maxwell

Mother: Elizabeth (Hamilton) Maxwell

Married: Isabella Seaton (according to Leslie) or Susan Armstrong (according to Burke)

Children: Occupation: Clergyman. Dean of Armagh, Chancellor of Connor

Death: 1622

Notes: from Burke's Baronetage and Peerage, 1875 pp449-450
THE VERY REV. ROBERT MAXWELL, 2nd son of Sir John Maxwell, Knt. of Calderwood, in Scotland, went over into Ireland, in the latter end of the reign of ELIZABETH, by order of JAMES VI., in order to secure an interest for his majesty in that kingdom.  Mr. Maxwell was appointed dean of Armagh, which deanery, with other considerable Church livings, he held till his decease.

From Armagh Clergy and Parishes (Leslie, 1911) p13
King James, writing to Sir A. Chichester, July 15, 1609, says that Maxwell "has painfully laboured [in Ireland] for certain years past in his ministry, and the king designs to confer upon him some ecclesiastical dignity in his gift" (S.P.I.). It is therefore probably the same who was nominated Chancellor of Connor in the Charter of July 20, 1609, and who held that position also in 1622.
...It is said that he debarred himself from further preferment by opposing Primate Henry Ussher, who had intended to lease the See lands of the Primacy in a fee farm grant for £1,500 per annum for ever to a dependant of the Duke of Buckingham on the latter's solicitation (Lodge and Old See Rental). He received a grant of denization 20 May, 1617 (P.R.). He received a grant of the Dean's Demesne in Armagh and also the territory of Derrynoose 27 Feb., 1613 (P. R. ).
   In 1622 he was "taken with a dead palsie." The Deanery was rated in the King's books at £35; value £120; Resident at Armagh. " His charge is at the Cathedrall. The Deanery consisteth only in land. He hath a poore house in Ardmagh opposite the land of the Deanery " (R. V. 1622).

Sources:

Robert Maxwell

Title: Right Reverend

Birth: 1598, in Kilbride, County Armagh, Ireland

Father: Robert Maxwell

Married: Margaret Echlin

Children: Education: M.A., D.D. and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Occupation: Clergyman. Robert was ordained on 27 January 1617/8 (OS/NS). He held the Rectories of Derrynoose and Clonoe from 1623 to 1666, and was named the 4th Prebendary of Tynan in 1625. In 1643 he became the Bishop of Kilmore, and the Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh in 1666.

From Armagh Clergy and Parishes, Rev James B Leslie, 1911 p73
Robert Maxwell, Prebendary of Tynan, 1625 - c. 1661 and Bishop of b>1625-Robert Maxwell, M.A. (afterwards D.D.), coll. Mar. 7 (R.V. 1633). Query, was it 1625/6, for, according to the P.R., he was pres. by the Crown Nov. 22, 1625.
He was again admitted on 2nd April, 1634/5 (F.F.T.), being pres.18 Mar. (R. V. 1633) and was named as 4th Preb. under the new Charter, Jan. 23, 1637/8, and allowed the parish in commendam with the Bishopric of Kilmore Mar. 22, 1643 (P.R.). He held also from 1623 to 1666 the Rectories of Derrynoose and Clonoe.
He was the eldest son of Robert M. Dean of Armagh; was ord. D. Jan. 27, 1617/8 (one copy of the R. V. of 1633 has " 1627 ") ; P. May 2, 1618. He was an M.A., D.D. and Fellow of T.C.D. and Chaplain to the Lord Lieutenant, and may have succeeded his father as Chancellor of Connor, but it is doubtful.
He became Archdeacon of Down in 1628, which dignity he res. in 1639. Cotton seems to think that he was Archdeacon of Down, Dean of Connor and Chancellor of Connor - an unheard of plurality - at the same time in 1634. He quotes as his authority "Commons Journals" (see Fasti V, 243). We find R.M. writing to Wentworth from Armagh on May 29, 1639, concerning the landing of boats at Copeland I. He speaks of himself as not being much "in favour with the Covenanters" (Harris M.S.S., Vol. VIII).
He suffered much in the rebellion of 1641, as appears from his Deposition in T.C.D. Library. He got £120 pension from the Commonwealth 10 Mar., 1657 (Comm. M.S.S., P.R.O.).
In 1643 he was raised to the Bishopric of Kilmore, to which Ardagh was added in 1666. He m. Margaret, dau. of Henry Echlin, Bishop of Down (who survived him) and had
(1) John of Farnham, ob. 1713 ;
(2) James of Fellows Hall,
(3) Henry of College Hall, who also became Preb. Tynan,
(4) William of FaIkland, who. m. Anne, dau. of Rev. George Walker, Chancellor of Armagh, and whose son was Robert of Falkland, D.D. (See Shirley's Monaghan, and Peerages).
He d. Nov. 1, 1672, and was bur. "in the country on Nov. 6" (Funeral Entries, U.0.). Shirley's Hist. of Monaghan has "Nov. 16." He left £200 to 'T.C.D.
In his P. Will, proved 1672, he desired to be bur. in Tynan ; mentions his sons and his dau. Mrs. Phoebe Maxwell (£300) and his son-in-law Henry Maxwell. He seems to have res. the Preb. Tynan before 1661.

Death: 1 November 1672

Buried: 6 November 1672

Farnham Estate
Farnham Estate
photo from http://homepage.tinet.ie/~cavanno1/FarnhamEstate.htm
Notes:
Robert was imprisoned by the Catholics during the rebellion of 1641, and held in County Tyrone. In 1642, he gave a famous deposition to a commission of enquiry in which he testified to the extent of certain massacres of Protestants, the extent or even existence of some of which is now in dispute.

Farnham Estate to the northwest of Cavan town as it is now known was originally called Waldron Estate, after Sir Richard Waldron the first landlord in the area. In 1664 the Right Rev. Robert Maxwell, Bishop of Kilmore purchased the Waldron Estate and renamed it Farnham after Sir Richard's wife who was a Miss Farnham. The estate remained in the family since then, until being sold to a hotel developer in 2001. Farnham House is one of the largest houses in Co. Cavan.

Robert was according to Leslie "Chaplain to Henry Carey, Fifth Viscount Falkland and Lord Deputy of Ireland (1622-1629). From hence we have the name Falkland, which he gave to the Townland and Seat acquired early in Reign of Charles II under a fee farm rent payable to the Leslie Estate, in which the whole is now again vested, by purchase from the Representatives of Mr. Maxwell Lyte, in 1874." (note that Henry Carey was actually the First Viscount Falkland, not the Fifth who was Anthony Carey, Lord of the Admiralty). The Falkland estate, "which appears to have been Identical with Drumnagmore in the Parish of Donagh", passed to his youngest son William. The link to the Falkland Islands is that Lord Falkland's grandson, the fifth Viscount was first Lord of the Admiralty in 1690, and when one Captain John Strong became the first man to land on the Islands in that year, he named them The Falkland Islands, after the Viscount.

Sources:

Robert Maxwell

of Killyleagh, county Down

Father: Henry Maxwell

Mother: Jane (Echlin) Maxwell

Married: Jane Chichester, the daughter of the Rev. John Chichester of Belfast

Children: Death: 1686

Notes: It was Robert's achievement to add to the family property the Ards or Groomsport estate, near Bangor, which he purchased from Henry Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Clanbrassill, in 1674. In the deeds documenting this transaction he is still described as 'of Killyleagh'.

Sources:

Robert Maxwell

Title: Reverend

Birth: 1665/6

Father: James Maxwell

Mother: Jane (Maxwell) Maxwell

Education: D.D. from Trinity College Dublin. He entered TCD aged 16 on 15 June 1682, and obtained his B.A. in 1687, his M.A. in 1693 and B.D. and D.D. in 1719.

Married: Ann

Death: 1737

Notes: Robert succeeded his uncle John at Farnham House, County Cavan. He died without children, and the estate passed to his cousin John Maxwell who was later elevated to the title of Baron Farnham.

From Armagh Clergy and Parishes, Rev James B Leslie, 1911 p74
Robert Maxwell, of Fellows Hall, Prebendary of Tynan, d. in 1737
1709-Robert Maxwell, coll. Sep. 17 (D.R.).
He was the son of James M. of Fellows Hall, 2nd son of Bishop Robert Maxwell, born in Co. Armagh, ent. T.C.D. aged 16 as a Pensioner June 15, 1682; became B.A. 1687 ; M.A. 1693; B.D. and D.D. 1719 (Reg. T.C.D.). He had a licence to go to England June 7, 1722 (D.R.). He d. in 1737, and by his P. Will, dated 29 Oct., 1721, proved 4 Mar., 1737/8, he desired to be bur. in Tynan Church with his ancestors, and left 4 townlands purchased by him from the late John Hamilton, of Caledon, to his wife Ann for life - she paying £40 to his nephew Robert Maxwell Leavens - then to said nephew and his heirs, failing these to his nephew Cap. Robert M., of College Hall, and his heirs, failing whom to his nephew Captain John M., of Falkland; £100 to the poor of Tynan and £50 to the poor tenants of Farnham. His college leases, to his wife for life and then to Cap. Robert M, - he paying £3,000 to be equally divided between the children of Captain John Charlton and testator's brother Lieut. Robert Maxwell, of Dunmurry, Co. Cavan. Wife exor.

Sources:

Robert Maxwell

Birth: 1672/3, at Faulkand, county Monaghan, Ireland

Father: William Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Walker) Maxwell

Education: Trinity College Dublin
Alumni Dublinenses p567 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935):
MAXWELL, ROBERT, Pen. (Mr Harvey), June 18, 1691, aged 18; s. of William de Faulkland, Generosus; b. Faulkland, Co. Mongahan.

Married: Sarah Waring on 3 March 1703 in Tullylish, county Down, Ireland

Children: Notes: Evelyn Philip Shirley, in The History of the County of Monaghan p161, states that Robert was a Doctor of Divinity (D.D.) but I can find no corroboration of this, and believe he may be confusing this Robert with his cousin, also Robert Maxwell, son of James Maxwell, who was D.D.

Death: c. 1750

Will: proved 1750

Sources:

Robert Maxwell

Father: Henry Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Stewart) Maxwell

Married: Grace Leavens, the daughter of Rev. John Leavens

Children: Notes: Robert was of Fellows Hall, County Armagh. He was a "captain of horse".

Sources:

Robert Maxwell

Father: Henry Maxwell

Mother: Dorothea (Brice) Maxwell

Married (1st): Anne Ward in 1741

Anne was the younger daughter of Robert Ward, collector of the port of Strangford, county Down, and Elizabeth Bayley. There were no children from this marriage.

Married (2nd): Mary Montgomery in 1749

Mary was born on 1 December 1726, the eldest daughter of William Montgomery of Greyabbey, county Down, and Elizabeth Hill. Her godfathers were the lord bishop of Meath (Ralph Lambert) and Rowley Hill, Esqr., her uncle. Her godmothers were Mrs. Catherine Rowley and Mrs Bailie of Inishargey. Mary died on 12 August 1755. There were no children from this marriage.

Married (3rd): Anne Maxwell

Children: Notes:
Robert was High Sheriff of county Down in 1743 (A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland vol 2 p1470). He succeeded to Finnebrogue in 1749, upon the death of his elder brother, Patrick. The estate passed to his son Edward, and later to his daughter, Dorothea.
Perceval Maxwell Papers p7
All the children of the Rt Hon. Henry Maxwell were by his second wife, Dorothea Brice. The eldest son, Patrick Maxwell of Finnebrogue, died unmarried in 1749. The second, Robert Maxwell of Finnebrogue, then succeeded. He had married in 1741 Anne, younger daughter of Robert Ward of Strangford, Co. Down, who had died without issue. In the same year as he succeeded to Finnebrogue, 1749, Robert Maxwell married Mary, eldest daughter of William Montgomery of Greyabbey, Co. Down, by whom he also had no children. He married thirdly Anne, second daughter of the Rev. John Maxwell of Falkland, Co. Monaghan, Archdeacon of Clogher, and died in 1769, having by her had issue a son, Edward Maxwell of Finnebrogue, who died without children in 1792, two other sons who died even younger, and a daughter, Dorothea, who became the first of a number of heiresses in this complicated family history.

Death: 1769

Will: dated 16 January 1767, proved 27 January 1769
Maxwell History and Genealogy p537 (Houston, Blaine, Mellette, 1916)
  Abstract of the will of Robert Maxwell, of Finnabrogue, County Down, Esq. January 16, 1767. First wife, Ann Ward; present wife, Ann; son Edward, under fourteen; son, William Henry Wassan Maxwell, and daughter Dorothy Maxwell, both under fourteen; brother Edward Maxwell; sister, Margaret Adair, wife of James Adair, Sr., and their son, my nephew, James Adair, Jr.; James Crawford, Jr., son of my cousin, James Crawford, Sr., of Downpatrick; brother, Edward Maxwell, a lieutenant-colonel in the army; wife Ann; James Adair, Sr.; James Adair, Jr., and Lieut-Col. Edward Maxwell, executors. Test: A. Johnston, J. Kennedy and John Campbell. A codocil, undated, mentions a son, John Maxwell, born since the date of the will. Probate January 27, 1769.

Sources:

Sarah (Maxwell) Waring

Birth: about 1727, in Clogher diocese, Ireland

Father: John Maxwell

Mother: Isabella Leavens

Married: Richard Waring in 1748 in Clogher diocese, Ireland

Children: Notes: Letters from Sarah to her son John serving in the West Indies in the period 1781 to 1782 are written from Dartry Lodge, county Armagh (Percival-Maxwell Papers p44)

Sources:

William Maxwell

Father: Robert Maxwell

Mother: Margaret (Echlin) Maxwell

Married: Anne Walker

Children: Notes: High Sheriff of Monaghan in 1691

The Peerage of Ireland p393 (John Lodge, 1789)
  William of Falkland in the county of Monaghan, the fourth son of the Bishop, married Anne, daughter of George Walker, D.D. Chancellor of the cathedral church of Armagh, Rector of Donaghmore, and sister to the famous Governor Walker, who so gallantly defended the city of Derry against the army of K. James, at the time of the revolution. He was high sheriff of Monaghan in 1691, and in revenge of the protection which he afforded the protestants in those parts, and for his activity and zeal in the cause of the revolution, was treacherously murdered by some of his own followers and dependants.—He left issue by his said wife, two sons, Robert, his heir; John, (an officer in the army, who served in Spain under his maternal kinsman General Stanhope, and there died); and a daughter Anne, who married — Stewart, Esq. a Major in the army.

Ireland Preserved p381 (John Graham, 1841)
  Governor Walker's only sister, Anne, married William Maxwell, Esq. of Falkland, in the county of Monaghan, Esq., the fourth son of Dr. Robert Maxwell, bishop of Kilmore. Her husband was High Sheriff of that county in 1691, when he was murdered by some of his own tenants and followers, in revenge for the protection he had given to the Protestants in the course of the preceding war.

Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 2 p132 (1854)
Mr. Maxwell was included in the first division of persons attainted by the infamous Bill of Attainder, passed by James's parliament in 1689.

Death: 1691 at Falkland, Donagh, county Monaghan, Ireland
William was murdered by some of his own tenants and followers, in revenge for the protection he had given to the Protestants in the course of the preceding war.
Ulster Journal of Archaeology vol 2 p132 (1854)
  The following interesting narrative of the escape of Mrs. Maxwell and her children from Falkland, after her husband was murdered by some of his own tenantry, in 1691, originally appeared in the “Newry Telegraph,” December 6, 1838. It was communicated by the late Rev. H.F. Lyte, (a connection of the Maxwell family by marriage) in a letter to the editor of that newspaper, from which it is now reprinted with the omission of some inaccurate statements which involve obvious historical errors.
  “William Maxwell, Esq., the then possessor of Falkland, and high sheriff for the county, (Monaghan,) had, during the troubles of the year 1691, some horses stolen from his demesne. A letter was sent to him by some of the popish party, to say that, if he would meet them at a certain hour and place, the horses should he restored to him. He unwarily depended on the faith of the writers, went to the place appointed, and was inhumanly murdered.

Maxwell History and Genealogy p537 (1916) contains this transcription:
      Prerogative Grants of Ireland.
April 4, 1681. Administration on the estate of William Maxwell, of Falkland, deceased, intestate, granted to his widow, Ann Maxwell, in trust for herself and for Robert Maxwell, John Maxwell, George Maxwell, and Ann Maxwell, his minor children.

The transcribed date in 1681 is troublesome. Possibly this refers to a different William Maxwell, but the mention of Falkland and the coincidence of a wife Ann, and children Robert, John and Ann (adding a George) leads me to believe that the 1681 could well be a mis-transcription meaning to be 1691. If the latter, it would bound the time of William's murder to before 4 April, and would also add George as a child, presumably one who died young since he is not mentioned in other sources such as The Peerage of Ireland p393 (John Lodge, 1789). The Prerogative Court shows William's intestate estate as the third entry in 1691, describing him as "Maxwell, Willism of Falkland, Co, Monaghan, Gent."

Sources:

William Maxwell

Dr Johnson at the Mitre
William Maxwell is the gentleman seated on the right in this drawing Dr. Johnson at the Mitre by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1860).
The drawing illustrates the following passage from Dr. Maxwell's Collectanea in from Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson: ‘Two young women from Staffordshire visited him when I was present to consult him on the subject of Methodism, to which they were inclined. “Come,” said he, “You pretty fools, dine with Maxwell and me at the Mitre and we will talk over that subject,” which they did and after dinner he took one of them on his knees, and fondled them for half-an-hour together.’
scan from www.rossettiarchive.org
Birth: 24 August 1732, in Donagh, county Monaghan, Ireland

Father: John Maxwell

Mother: Isabella (Leavens) Maxwell

Education: Trinity College Dublin which he entered on 3 November 1747, graduating B.A. in 1762, M.A. in 1755, and D.D. in 1777.
Alumni Dublinenses p568 (ed. G. D. Burtchaeli and T. U. Sadlier, 1935):
MAXWELL, WILLIAM, Pen. (Mr Skelton), Nov. 3, 1747, aged 16; s. of John, Clericus; b. Co. Mongahan. Sch. 1750, B.A. Vern. 1752. M.A. Æst. 1755. B.D. and D.D. Vern 1777. See D. N. B.

Married (1st): Anne Massingberd on 6 December 1777 in South Ormsby, Lincolnshire, England

Anne Massingberd
Anne Massingberd at Ormsby Hall
Painting by Edward Haytley (oil on canvas
44 x 35 cm. (18 x 14 in.) Inscribed on the stretcher: "Anne Massingberd / Born 1747; married 1777, the Rev. William Maxwell D.D. / Ormsby Hall in the background"
photo of painting posted at www.artwarefineart.com
Anne was born on 26 August 1747, the daughter of William Burrell Massingberd of Ormsby, Lincolnshire, and Anne Dobson. In 1776, Anne was courted by Andrew Robinson Stoney, then a recent widower, and later famous for a scandalous marriage and divorce to Mary Bowes, the Countess of Strathmore.
Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore pp109-110 (Wendy Moore, 2009)
With his bounty rapidly slipping between his fingers, supplemented only by his paltry army half-pay of about £40 a year, the former lieutenant was becoming anxious to secure a more reliable source of income to maintain his indulgent lifestyle. Accompanied by his valet, Thomas Mahon, the self-promoted "Captain" Stoney made for Scarborough, the fashionable Yorkshire seaside and spa town to which wealthy and well-bred families repaired during the summer months. Eyeing up the gentry enjoying the sea bathing and the horseracing along the sandy beach, Stoney hunted for another gullible heiress to lure down the aisle. It was not long before he chanced upon Anne Massingberd, the 28-year-old daughter of William Burrell Massingberd, a cultured and respected gentleman who lived in South Ormsby, in nearby Lincolnshire, where he fulfilled the post of sheriff.
  Having lost her mother when she was young, Anne had helped to bring up her five younger sisters and two brothers in the family home of Ormsby Hall. Her industrious but sheltered life had scarcely prepared her to withstand the dazzling charms of the tall and genial army officer who now plied her with gofts and flattery at every opportunity. Convinced that Anne's father would offer a substantial portion to speed his eldest daughter to the altar, Stoney swiftly worked his customary magic. Swayed by his promises of marriage, Anne was  quickly infatuated, and almost certainly bedded—judging by her later remorse—by her impatient suitor in the early summer months. Anne's poignant letters to Stoney, which have survived despite her appeals for him to return them, provide a highly revelatory picture of the irresistable allure that the Irish soldier exerted on women. In one typically desperate letter Anne proclaims, “to describe the feelings of my heart is impossible, & I should think the attempt unnecessary, for you have known me too long not to be assured that my Love & Regard for you is beyond any thing to me.” Yet even as he fueled the countryside chatter by appearing as Anne's constant escort—and by the rigid rules of eighteenth-century courtship ruining her chances of forming an alternative match—Stoney realized that his expectations of her fortune had been overly optimistic. With two sons and six daughters to provide for, Anne's father was in no position to offer Stoney anything but the most meager of marital enhancements. So as the sheriff and his eldest son, Charles, grew increasingly alarmed at reports of the Irish officer's predilections for bad company, Stoney shrewdly gauged that it was time to move on. Employing the well-worn delaying tactic, that his father was reluctant to settle sufficient fortune on him, Captain Stoney cooled his ardour and left Anne in suspense. By July he was heading for London with an altogether more promising prey in his sights.   

Stoney married Mary Bowes, the Countess of Strathmore, in January 1777, but Anne continued her infatuation with him. Stoney had taken the Bowes surname upon his marriage. Wendy Moore picks up the thread on p142
Distraught to hear of her ex-lover's reported injuries, and even more so of his subsequent marriage, Anne had continued to bombard Bowes, and later Mary, with her pitifully tragic letters. Guilelessly revealing her infatuation, as well as her credulity, she assured Mary: “You are my dear Madam possess'd of a Treasure, the heart of the most amiable of Men, which may you ever retain unmolested.” By the summer, however, even the gullible Anne had begun to doubt Bowes's honesty, wretchedly telling him that “my Eyes now begin to be opened, the dream is almost over & wth. it my sad life must end, for to outlive the idea that you have some truth & sincerity in you is impossible.” It was not long before Anne was fully woken from her dream—or nightmare—for a friend who met her in Scarborough in August reported with satisfaction that, “Miss Massingberd is here, & seems to have pretty well recovered the loss of Captain Stoney.” A few months later 30-year-old Anne was married—to the 46-year-old Reverend William Maxwell, the Irish friend who Bowes had deputed to duel on his behalf that summer—and soon after she left her family home to begin married life in Ireland. 

Anne died on 28 October 1789 at Gay Street, Bath, Somerset.
The Gentleman's Magazine November 1789 p1053
  Oct. 28. In Gay-street, Bath, Mrs. Maxwell, wife of the Rev. Dr. M. of Ireland, and dau. of — Massingberd, esq. of Lincolnshire.

Children:
Jane (Ellis) Maxwell
Silhouette of Jane (Ellis) Maxwell

"Head and Shoulders of Mrs Jane Maxwell"
by Charles Rosenberg (work on paper
8.5 x 6.2 cm.)
photo of silhouette posted at www.artnet.com
Married (2nd): Jane Ellis, in Ireland

There is some irony in that one of the sayings of Samuel Johnson that William recorded in the Collectanea in Boswell's biography Life of Samuel Johnson was that a second marriage was "the triumph of hope over experience."

Jane was born in 1764/5, in Ireland, the daughter of Robert Ellis, of Arduncheon, county Fermanagh, and Penelope Leslie. Jane died on 21 May 1847, aged 82. At the time, she was resident at 22 Bennett Street, Bath. Jane was buried on 28 May 1847, in St Swithin's church, Walcot, Bath, Somerset, in the same tomb as her husband.
Census:
1841: Walcot, Somerset

Occupation: Clergyman. William was Reader. or assistant preacher, at the Temple Church in London for many years. In 1775, through the favour of his relative, the Hon. Henry Maxwell, bishop of Meath, he obtained the rectory of Mount Temple, co. Westmeath. When he was required to reside more regularly on his benefice, he resigned the rectory, and about 1780 removed to Bath. Clogher Clergy and Parishes p46 (Rev James B Leslie, 1929) - entry for his father John, has William also as rector of Kilcleagh and Ballyloughloe, county Meath.

Notes:
Rev. Dr. William Maxwell was a friend of the diarist Dr. Johnson, and provided the material for the Collectanea in Boswell's biography Life of Samuel Johnson. Maxwell termed his friendship with Johnson "At once the pride and happiness of his life", and it is said that he attempted to imitate Dr. Johnson's maner and appearance.
The Life of Samuel Johnson vol 2 p79 (James Boswell, 1851)
I shall present my readers with some Collectanea, obligingly furnished to me by the Reverend Dr. Maxwell, of Falkland, in Ireland, some time assistant preacher at the Temple, and for many years the social friend of Johnson, who spoke of him with a very kind regard.
     COLLECTANEA.
  “My acquaintance with that great and venerable character commenced in the year 1754. I was introduced to him by Mr. Grierson, his Majesty's printer at Dublin, a gentleman of uncommon learning, and great wit and vivacity.
...
I must always remember with gratitude my obligation to Mr. Grierson, for the honour and happiness of Dr. Johnson's acquaintance and friendship, which continued uninterrupted and undiminished to his death: a connection, that was at once the pride and happiness of my life.
...
  We dined téte-à-téte at the Mitre, as I was preparing to return to Ireland, after an absence of many years. I regretted much leaving London, where I had formed many agreeable connections: ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘I don't wonder at it; no man, fond of letters, leaves London without regret. But remember, Sir, you have seen and enjoyed a great deal; you have seen life in its highest decorations, and the world has nothing new to exhibit. No man is so well qualified to leave public life as he who has long tried it and known it well. We are always hankering after untried situations, and imagining greater felicity from them than they can afford. No, Sir, knowledge and virtue may be acquired in all countries, and your local consequence will make you some amends for the intellectual gratifications you relinquish.’
...
  He then took a most affectionate leave of me; said, he knew it was a point of duty that called me away. ‘We shall all be sorry to lose you,’ said he: ‘laudo tamen.’ ”

Ruin of Falkland Castle
The ruins of Falkland Castle c. 2015
photo posted on facebook by Susanne Mitchell Kilfoy
William was the last inhabitant of Falkland Castle before leaving Ireland for Bath in 1780, after which the castle fell into ruin. The ruins still exist today. Of that estate at Falkland, Shirley writes:
The History of the County of Monaghan pp160-2 (Evelyn Philip Shirley, 1879)
  The house is now a Ruin, though inhabited by Dr. William Maxwell at the end of the last century. It must have been a mansion of considerable pretension; there are remains of old trees, and an avenue of limes, still very perfect; the relics of the library—a rare thing in Ireland—are yet preserved at Trough Lodge, the seat of Mr. Ancketill. This Dr. William Maxwell was the friend of Dr. Johnson, and author of the “Collectanea,” printed in Boswell's life of that great man, whose acquaintance and friendship he terms, “at once the pride and happiness of his life.” Dr Maxwell is said to have gone to reside in Bath about 1780, and to have allowed Falkland subsequently to fall into ruin; however, he appears to have been there about the time of the Rebellion, when by the relation of his widow to the late Mrs. Ancketill, she stated that the rebels fired into his bed-room, with intent to kill him; she was standing near a window when the ball passed over her head; this, Mrs. Maxwell added, was the principal reason of his leaving Falkland."
p160
This townland and seat, acquired early in reign of Charles II. under a fee farm rent payable to the Leslie estate, in which the whole is now again vested, by purchase from the representative of the family, Mr. Maxwell Lyte, in the year 1871.
p299
Dr. John Maxwell was father of William Maxwell, the last heir male of the house of Falkland, who died in 1818, leaving by his will certain bequests for the better education of the poor of the Parish of Donagh. The interest on £257, lodged in the three and a-half per cent. funds, is now paid to the schoolmaster of Glaslough. On the old school-house there was the following inscription on stone:
“EX SVPREMIS TABVLIS / GVL. MAXWELL. S.T.P. / POSITVS EST / LVDVS HICCE.   A.D. MDCCCXXI.”

William was friend of Andrew Robinson Stoney, who had previously courted William's future wife, Anne Massingberd. Stoney famously married the immensely wealthy Mary Bowes, the Countess of Strathmore after supposedly dueling a publisher, Rev. Henry Bate to defend her honour over stories Bate had published. Both the stories and the duel were later revealed to be faked as part of an elaborate plot by Stoney to win Mary's heart. Bate felt he had not been paid for the scheme according to their agreement and threatened a real duel. Stoney deputised William Maxwell to duel for him, although a settlement was reached before any dueling actually took place. William married Anne in December 1777..
Wedlock: The True Story of the Disastrous Marriage and Remarkable Divorce of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore pp124-125 (Wendy Moore, 2009)
Sent by Bate, within a month or so of the Adelphi encounter, the letter threatened Stoney with “a real Duel” or with exposure unless he produced a promised annuity, plainly Bate's reward for his part in the plot. And as the quarrel between so-called heroes now intensified in earnest, one of Stoney's friends reported him to be exercising with pistols every morning. “I expect almost certainly to hear of a Duel that will be serious,” the friend wrote while adding, “the former, I suspect, was not so.” Indeed, as Stoney grew increasingly belligerent, Bate warned him not to attack the man “to whom you owe every thing you now possess.” In the event, Stoney deputed another in his legion of willing clerics, the Reverend William Maxwell, to fight Bate—there was no chance that he would seriously put his own life at risk, for as Foot astutely noted, “he was by nature a coward.” The dispute was finally settled that spring in arbitration arranged by friends, with Stoney forced to make an apology.

In 1780, William published a broadsheet describing a debt owed to him by one Major Brereton.
The Journal of the Survey of Old Bath and Its Associates no. 24 October 2009 p42
This item printed (and presumably intended for general distribution) in Bath in March 1780 by a certain William Maxwell, is titled A STATE of FACTS and sets out in considerable detail how Brereton had been in debt for £400 some eight years earlier, and despite repeated promises to repay the debt to Maxwell and others who had stood surety for the Major as an act of kindness, most of the amount was still outstanding. As I said, we have considerable detail on the circumstances of how the debt is being prolonged, and I would like to include a section of this broadsheet or ‘Statement of Facts’, from which it appears Brereton is something of a rascal, always promising what he couldn’t, or wouldn’t, deliver:
In the course of this Transaction, I addressed myself to the Major in the following manner: Provided this Money is raised for you, when, and in what Time do you think it will be in your power to repay us? He said, “in a Month;” and produced a Memorandum-Book, to shew that he had upwards of Three Thousand Pounds due to him, which ought to have been paid some years ago. My reply was, Major, if you think you cannot pay the Money in a Month, take Six Weeks, take Two Months or Three, or a Year; whatever Time you take, I expect you to be punctual, or you may depend upon it, you will find me as much your enemy, as I am now inclined to be your Friend. However, the Time was stated at Six Weeks. I particularly recommended it to the Major, to use his utmost endeavours to raise the Money, and whenever he was possessed of ever so small a Sum, to give it to Mr Gyde as he was the only one that raised the Money, it must be paid to him, and him only: He sincerely promised.
At the expiration of the six weeks, no money was paid in; I met the Major in the Churchyard, when I talked to him very roundly upon the subject, and after great altercation, he promised to pay in part of the Money, and at Mr. Wade’s Ball, Mr. Gyde received One Hundred Pounds, upon condition that he gave up that Bond, which he did. After this, Creaser became a Bankrupt, and some time after Yescombe died insolvent; Gyde called upon me, and said he thought it was necessary that the matter of Brereton’s should be settled, and begged that I would go with him and Mr. Percival to the Major upon this business; we did so, and after informing him of the nature of our business, he acknowledged the debt all but the One Hundred Pounds which had been paid by Mr. Wade; but begged our indulgence till a future day, when we might depend upon it he would pay the greatest part, if not the whole.
At Bath Races the Major received, in my presence, a capital sum of money, when I intreated him to let Gyde have half of it, which he assured me he should have the next day; but I am certain he never gave him any part of it, and that he has never received any part of the said debt, except the One Hundred Pounds paid by Mr. Wade.
    WILLIAM MAXWELL
        BATH, March 17, 1780

Dictionary of National Biography vol 37 p137 (Sidney Lee, 1894)
  MAXWELL, WILLIAM (1732-1818), friend of Dr. Johnson, born 24. Aug 1732, was eldest son of John Maxwell of Falkland, in Donagh parish, co. Monaghan, archdeacon of Clogher 1762-83, by his first wife, Isabella, daughter of the Rev. John Leavens of Ardee, co. Louth. He was admitted a pensioner at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected scholar in 1750 and graduated B.A. 1752, M.A. 1755, B.D. and D.D. 1777 (TODD, Graduates p.381). His health suffered through study, and he travelled abroad with his relative, Lord Farnham, until it was re-established. About 1755, he was introduced to Johnson by George Grierson, the government printer at Dublin. For several years he was assistant preacher at the Temple Church when the Rev. Gregory Sharpe, D.D., was master; in 1775, through the favour of his relative, the Hon. Henry Maxwell, bishop of Meath, he obtained the rectory of Mount Temple, co. Westmeath. On his return to Ireland, Johnson, who had been for many years his ‘social friend,’ and always ‘spoke of him with a’ very kind regard,’ took an affecting leave of him. His house at Falkland was of considerable size, with a good library, the relics of which are preserved at Trough Lodge, the seat of the Ancketills. When he was required to reside more regularly on his benefice, he resigned the rectory, and about 1780 removed to Bath, allowing the house at Falkland to fall into ruins. It is, however, asserted that he was there at the time of the rebellion, and that the rebels fired into his bedroom to kill him. He died at Bennett Street, Bath, 3 Sept 1818, and was buried in Walcot Church, where his widow erected to his memory an enormous monument, with the family escutcheon and the motto, ‘Je suis prêt.’ His first wife was Anne, eldest daughter of William Burrell Massingberd of Ormsby, Lincolnshire, whom he married on 6 Dec. 1777, and by whom he had four children. Three of them died without issue; the youngest, Anne, married at Queen Square Chapel, Bath, on 21 Jan. 1818, Henry Francis Lyte [q.v.], and died at Berry Head, Brixham, Devonshire, 7 Jan. 1856. Maxwell's first wife died at Bath, and some time later he married in Ireland Miss Jane Ellis, who died without issue 21 May 1847, aged 82, and was buried by her husband's side in Walcot Church. He left by his will bequests for the better education of the poor at Donagh; on the old school-house at Glaslough in that parish was placed an inscription to the effect that it was built in 1821 from his last designs. Two oval portraits in pastel of the first Mrs. Maxwell and her son, both dated 1784 and signed by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and one of Dr. Maxwell, not dated or signed, are in the possession of Miss Hogg.
  Maxwell was very proud of his friendship with Johnson, copying him ‘in wig, general appearance, and in manner.’ He furnished Boswell with considerable collectanea (in which some of the doctor's best sayings are embodied) on Johnson's life before 1770. The greater part of them were inserted in Boswell, 1st edit. i. 336-45, but some further anecdotes were given by him in the additions to the second edition. He is said to have written some political pamphlets, one on the Falkland Islands, and another addressed to Pitt on taxation as it affected Ireland.
  [Gent. Mag. 1819, pt. i. p. 92; Monkland's Literature of Bath, Supplement, pp. 7-8; Shirley's Monaghan, pp, 160-2, 299; J Silvester's Walcot Church, p. 47; Isaac Taylor's Family Pen, i. 298-300; Boswell, ed. Croker, 1831, i. 373, ed. Hill, ii. 116; T. Hutchinson's Diary i. 430; information from his great-grandson, Mr. H. Maxwell Lyte, C.B.]    W. P. C. 

The literature and literati of Bath pp7-8 (George Monkland, 1855)
I know not whether the REV. DR. MAXWELL, who lived and died in Bennett Street, was an author, but he was the intimate of authors, and, “for many years, the social friend of Johnson.” Boswell avails himself of the Collectanea with which Maxwell supplied him, and which is acknowledged in the 2nd volume (page 104, et sequitur) of the edition published in 1820. Dr. Maxwell was the son of Dr. John Maxwell, archdeacon of Down, who was cousin of the Hon. Henry Maxwell, bishop of Dromore, in 1765, and of Meath, in 1766. After residing for many years among us (at one time he was assistant preacher at the Temple) the Doctor died in 1818, at the advanced age of 87. In wig, general appearance, and even in manner, he was no bad type of his learned friend. 

A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland vol 1 p142 (Samuel Lewis, 1837)
BALLYLOUGHLOE
A school at Baylin is supported by Lord Castlemaine, and another at the same place, for girls, by Lady Castlemaine; and a school at Ballinagarbery is supported by a bequest from the late Dr. Maxwell. In these schools about 150 boys and 190 girls receive instruction;

Death: 3 September 1818, at Bennett Street, Bath, Somerset, England
The Gentleman's Magazine January 1819 p92
At Bath, in his 87th year, Rev. William Maxwell, D.D. of Falkland, co Monaghan, a gentleman of a most respectable Irish family, who for nearly fifty years had chiefly resided in that city.

Memorial to William Maxwell and Jane (Ellis) Maxwell
Memorial to William Maxwell and Jane (Ellis) Maxwell in St Swithin's church, Walcot, Bath, Somerset
photo from St Swithin’s Church, Walcot, Bath—Internal Memorials p120
Buried: 11 September 1818, in St Swithin's church, Walcot, Bath, Somerset, England
A memorial in St Swithin's church reads:
IN A TOMB
UNDERNEATH THIS CHURCH
REPOSE THE MORTAL REMAINS
OF THE
REVEREND WILLIAM MAXWELL
DOCTOR OF DIVINITY
OF
FALKLAND
COUNTY OF MONAGHAN IRELAND,
BORN THE 24TH OF AUGUST 1732.
DIED THE 3RD OF SEPTEMBER 1818.
TO THE MEMORY
OF HIS
CHRISTIAN PIETY, MORAL EXCELLENCE,
INTELLECTUAL ENDOWMENTS,
AND
SOCIAL VIRTUES,
THE AFFECTION OF HIS WIDOW
JANE MAXWELL
DEDICATES THIS MARBLE.

HER OWN REMAINS
ARE NOW PLACED IN THE SAME TOMB
SHE DIED ON THE 21ST OF MAY 1847,
AGED 82 YEARS.
“HE THAT BELIEVETH IS PASSED FROM
DEATH UNTO LIFE.” JOHN 5: CH: 24:V.

From the burial register: Revd William Maxwell DD, aged 86, of Bennett Street, was buried on 11 Sep 1818.

Will: dated 25 March 1818. William's will was a complex affair, mainly due to his desire to provide for his insane son, and for the possibility that his son might regain his sanity and have male heirs. The will landed up in court an number of times, some of the cases providing arcanes points of legal precedent. Ellis vs. Maxwell in March 1841 decided the ability of William's grandson, Henry William Maxwell Lyte to continue to receive a maintenance allowance from the will even after turning twenty one. Hogg vs. Jones decides that William's plate should go to his great-grandson, Edward Maxwell Lyte, in a case convoluted by disentailing deeds to William's entailed estate.

A biography of William son-in-law, Henry Francis Lyte, notes that William "died shortly after the Lytes were married and left them a very welcome legacy which enabled them to live in reasonable comfort, as the stipend of a clergyman was very small."

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William Henry Maxwell

Baptism: 15 September 1782, in Clifton St Andrew, Gloucestershire, England

Father: William Maxwell

Mother: Anne (Massingberd) Maxwell

Death: William died young.

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