1850 U.S. Census, Essex County, Virginia
Page 76A, Dwelling 180, Family 180
Croxton, James, 66, male, farmer, $15,000 real estate, born in Virginia
Croxton, Sarah, 49, female, born in Virginia
Croxton, Amanda, 17, female, born in Virginia, attended school
Croxton, James, 14, male, born in Virginia, attended school
Croxton, Lucy, 8, female, born in Virginia, attended school
Croxton, John, 5, male, born in Virginia

John Thomas Croxton was mentioned in the 12 July 1853 will of his father James Croxton. He was to receive land. [Essex County, Virginia, Will Book 27, pages 579–581.]

In the late 1850s, orator Leonard Henley, executor of the last will and testament of James Croxton who died in March 1856, complained to the Chancery Court. There is an inserted line in this complaint that confuses the document. Implies that the children of James Croxton are Martha the wife of your orator, S. C. Boughan the wife of Ed. R. Boughan, James Croxton, Amanda Croxton, Lucy Croxton and John T. Croxton and Aubrey Croxton a grandson of the testator. Aubrey died prior to the death of his grandfather an infant. The widow Sarah Croxton died in September 1856. [Essex County, Virginia, Box Chancery No. 42, item 42-C-42.]

Name, marriage data from William Irving Brooks, letter of 29 March 1993 to Thomas Moore. Was a school teacher, died unmarried.

Information supplied by William I. Brooks on 14 May 1993, from notes by his grandfather James Irving Brooks: he never married and lived with his sister Sarah at the home place. He was a school teacher in Essex County.