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- Thomas Pearson Sr.
Birth 5 Sep 1653
Wilmslow, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England
Death Feb 1734 (aged 80)
Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial Burial Details Unknown, Specifically: UNKNOWN PLACE OF BURIAL AT THIS TIME
Memorial ID 172671175
PLACE OF BURIAL: THE BOOK "THE PEARSON FAMILY TREE FROM ENGLAND TO AMERICA" BY ENID PEARSON HAWTHORNE PLACES BURIAL IN THE SPRINGFIELD MEETING HOUSE BURIAL GROUND.
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THOMAS PEARSON WAS THE SON OF LAWRENCE AND ELIZABETH JANNEY PEARSON.
HE MARRIED MARGARET SMITH 18 APR 1683 IN CHESHIRE COUNTY, ENGLAND AT THE HOME OF THOMAS JANNEY. GOD BLESSED THIS MARRIAGE WITH THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: ROBERT, THOMAS JR, LAWRENCE, ENOCH, JOHN, ABEL, SARAH, BENJAMIN, MARY AND MARGERY.
UPON HIS ARRIVAL IN AMERICA (PENNSYLVANIA) 28 SEP 1683, THOMAS WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE MARGARET, HIS BROTHER JOHN AND HIS SISTER-IN-LAW MARY (SISTER OF MARGARET) PER REGISTRY OF ARRIVALS OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
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Family Data Collection - Births
Name: Thomas Pearson
Father: Lawrence Pearson
Mother: Elizabeth Janney
Birth Date: 5 Sep 1653
City: Pownall Fee
County: Cheshire
Country: England
Source Information
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Births [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
Family Data Collection - Deaths
Name: Thomas Pearson
Death Date: 1734
County: Chester
State: PA
Country: USA
Source Information
Edmund West, comp.. Family Data Collection - Deaths [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
Family Data Collection - Individual Records
Name: Thomas Pierson
Spouse: Margery Smith
Parents: Lawrence Pierson, Mary Elizabeth Janney
Birth Place: Chester, Pownall Fee, PA
Birth Date: 1653
Marriage Place: Pownall Fee, Chester, PA
Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1682
Death Place: Marple, Chester, PA
Death Date: 27 May 1734
Source Citation
Birth year: 1653; Birth city: Pownall Fee; Birth state: PA
Millennium File
Name: Thomas Peirson Pearson
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 1656
Birth Place: Pownall, Cheshire, England
Death Date: 1734
Death Place: Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Marriage Date: 18 Feb 1683
Marriage Place: Pownall Fee, Cheshire, England
Father: Lawrence Peirson
Spouse: Margery Smith
Children: Sarah Pearson; Sarah Pearson
Spouse Father: Robert Smith
Spouse Mother: Ellen Burgess
Source Information
Heritage Consulting. Millennium File [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Thomas Pearson
Arrival Year: 1683
Arrival Place: Pennsylvania
Family Members: Wife Margaret; Brother John
Source Publication Code: 8370
Primary Immigrant: Pearson, Thomas
Annotation: This excellent work contains over 3,000 names and an index to vessels. Reprints the following articles with corrections, additions, and new materials: "The Real Welcome Passengers," by Marion Balderston (no. 242) pp. 1-26; "Pennsylvania's 1683 Ships," (no
Source Bibliography: SHEPPARD, WALTER LEE, JR., compiler and editor. Passengers and Ships prior to 1684. (Publications of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, 1.) Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970. 245p. Reprinted by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1985.
Page: 89
Source Citation
Place: Pennsylvania; Year: 1683; Page Number: 89
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DATED 16 OCT 1730
WILL BOOK A, PAGE 407
Proved 25 March 1734
I, Thomas Pearson of Marple in the County of Chester and Province of Pennsylvania being weak in body but of sound disposing mind and memory praises be given to Almighty God, do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following, first and principally I command my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it, and my Body I commit to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors hereinafter named. And as touching all such Temporal Estate and worldly Effects as it hath pleased the Lord to bless me with, I give and dispose thereof as follows:
Imprims. I will that all my just debts and funeral expenses be fully discharged and paid.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my son John Pearson the sum of fifteen Pounds Current money of America due upon Bond to be assigned over to him by my executors hereinafter named within six months after my decease.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son in Law John West and my Daughter Sarah his wife ten pounds current money of America to be paid unto them by my Executors within two years after my decease.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son in Law Nicholas Rogers and my daughter Mary his wife the sum of fifteen pounds current money of America Due upon Bond to be assigned over by my Executors within six months after my decease.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son in Law Peter Thompson and my Daughter Margery his wife the sum of fifteen pounds current money of America due upon Bond to be assigned over to them by my Executors within six months after my death.
AND WHEREAS my son Robert Pearson by divers Obligations and conditions to them is and Standeth bound unto me by virtue of them all, in the just and full sum of fifty pounds current money of America as aforesaid due and payable at the days and times in every of their limited and appointed relation thereunto had more fully appears, which said fifty pounds I give and dispose of in a manner following (viz) ten pounds part of thereof I give and bequeath unto my son John Pearson. Ten Pounds more thereof to my Son in Law John West and Sarah , his wife. Ten pounds more thereof to my Son in Law Nicholas Rogers and Mary his wife. Ten pounds more thereof to my Son in Law Peter Thompson and Margery his wife. And Ten pounds residue or remainder thereof to my son Robert Pearson aforesaid to be paid to each and every of them by my Executors in some convenient time after my decease.
Item. I give and bequeath unto my four sons Namely, Robert Pearson, Lawrence Pearson, Enoch Pearson, and Abel Pearson, to each of them five shillings to be paid to them by my Executors.
AND ALL the REST and residue of my Estate Real and personal of what nature or kind soever, proved by any ways or means whatsoever to be my right property, claim or demand whether written or verbal agreement, I give and devise unto my dear and loving wife Margery Pearson to her proper use, behoove, benefit and disposal forever.
And LASTLY I do nominate, constitute and ordain my trusty and well beloved friends, Bartholomew Coppock of Marple and Samuel Levis, JR of Springfield in the County of Chester aforesaid to be my lawful Executors of this my last will and Testament reposing. Reposing in them Special Trust and Confidence in the fulfilling, accomplishing and Executing thereof in every part, according to the true Intent and meaning of the same, which I doe pronounce and declare to be my last will and Testament and none other revoking hereby all former will and wills by me made either verbal or written. In witness thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal dated the sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty (1730).
Thomas Pearson
Signed, sealed and pronounced and declared by the above Thomas Pearson, the testator for and as his last will and Testament in the presence of us ye subscribers.
Rebecca Coppock
Sarah Coppock
Morda Massey
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PLEASE NOTE there were two Thomas Pearson (Pierson) families in Chester County, Pennsylvania. A great deal of enormous information has been generated on both and thoroughly mixed together. One lived in Marple Township (son of Lawrence and Elizabeth Janney Pearson, married Margaret Smith and a mason) while the other lived in Caln Township (unsure about parentage, married Rose Dixon and a surveyor).
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mygermanfamilies/Pearson.html
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MESSAGE FROM ANGELA JONES HARLAN DATED 24 JAN 2022:
Suggested edit: Thomas Pearson died prior to 7 Feb 1733/34 as per the date of inventory of his estate, showing in his estate records
Estate Papers, 1713-1810; Author: Chester County (Pennsylvania).
Register of Wills; Probate Place: Chester, Pennsylvania
NOTE: also the images are on Ancestry.com Pennsylvania, U S Wills and Probate Records 1693-1993 images 107-112
Image #109 states the date of Inventory of the estate.
An Inventory of the Goods Rights & Chattels of Thomas Pearson of Marple in the County of Chester Deseayed as the ware showed us the appraisers Hereafter named upon the Seventh day of ye twelfth month called February 1733/34. By Bartholomew Coppock & Samuel Lewis, Jun. Exectutors of his Last will and Testament Bearing Date the 16th day of October 1730.
NOTE: Confusing is that the Julian calendar started the first month on 25 Mar and last month was Feb
This was used until 1752. The Julian Calendar was replaced by the Gregorian Calendar, changing the formula for calculating leap years. The beginning of the legal new year was moved from March 25 to January 1.
Contributor: Angela Jones Harlan (46829396) • Angelah1012@aol.com
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1653 - 1734 (80 years)
