From GenealogyLibrary.com: New England Families Genealogical and Memorial: Third Series, Volume IV, page 2158 and 2159
The Moon family, resident in and about Bristol, England, were among the early converts to the principles of the Society of Friends. Moone, as the name is spelled in early English and American records.
James Moone, the American ancestor of this line, came to Pennsylvania from Bristol, England, about the same time as his brother John Moone, appeared in Philadelphia, and located near the falls of the Delaware, in Bucks County. He married at Bristol, England 1667 and brought to America several children of nearly adult age. When he purchased a tract of land in Falls township in 1695, his son, James Jr., was named as one of the grantees, the title to vest in him when he arrived at the age of twenty-one years.
There is little doubt but that John Moone, was James brother, as they were both witnesses to the will of Joseph Siddal, of Bucks County, which was probated in Philadelphia, May 5, 1704.
James Moone was actively associated with the affairs of Bucks County, his name frequently appearing upon the early records of the courts of that county after 1685 as a member of grand and petit juries, and as serving in various capacities by appointment of the court up to the time of his decease in September, 1714.
Came from Gloucestershire, England, and settled in Middletown township, Bucks county, PA, in 1690/
James Moon's will mentions 6 children.
Deed dated 10 mo. 13, 1688, James purchsed of James Hill 125 acres of land in Falls township, one and a hlaf miles west from Morrisville and largely covered in 1905 by the classification yard of the Trenton branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. On 12 mo. 11, 1706, he conveyed the same by deed in fee to his son Roger.
Among the ear marks of cattle recorded at the clerk's office in a book preserved in the Library of the Bucks Co Historical Society are those of James Moon. He was a member of Falls Monthly Meeting of Friends, and was buried in the old graveyard at Fallsington.
