Maxwell's nephew George M. Robeson was United States Secretary of the Navy and also sat in Congress.
[1] Born in Sussex County, New Jersey, Maxwell graduated from Princeton College in 1792.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1797 and practiced in Hunterdon County, New Jersey.
He resumed the practice of law in Flemington, New Jersey, where he died on March 16, 1816.
He was buried in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Raritan Township, New Jersey.