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From: "Daniel W Treadway" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Edward PIERSON/PEARSON(1651-1697)
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:48:44 -0500
In-Reply-To: <1ce.d931eef.2c3ee094@aol.com>


Here is a source on the web for the information on Pierson will:
<http://www.mendenhall.org/mfa/mailing-list/archive/2356.html>;

There may be more information on the same site. Those interested in
digging further could look at <http://www.mendenhall.org>; or
<http://www.mendenhall.org/mfa/mailing-list/archive/index.html>;.

--
Dan Treadway
P. O. Box 72 Gilbert IA 50105

http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway/


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 11:30:28 EDT
wrote:
>This pertains to an e-mail dated 07/09/2003 from Jean Leeper, in
>which she
>asks whether Thomas Pierson ca. 1653- ca 1722, who married Rose
>Dixon, was a son
>of Laurence Pierson and Elizabeth Janney of Cheshire, England.
>
>Thomas Pierson, for many years a surveyor in northern Delaware, had
>completed
>his apprenticeship in Bristol, England in 1675. I have read an
>account of
>how, after one or two trips to the Chesapeake Bay area of Maryland,
>he returned
>to Bristol, England ca. 1682 to claim an inheritance, probably left
>by the
>husband of the deceased sister of Thomas. However, because most of
>the witnesses
>to the will were Quakers and would not take the required oath in
>order to
>prove the will, the will was ruled invalid. Thomas Pierson then
>returned to
>America and settled in Delaware. As I remember it, this account
>lists the mother
>of Thomas Pierson as Susanna. I do not know her maiden name. She
>seems to
>have lived her later life in Bristol. I do not know the name of the
>father of
>Thomas Pierson. ---- The information which I have narrated may be
>included in
>the Taylor Papers on file with the Historical Society of
>Pennsylvania, 1300
>Locust Street, Philadelphia.
> - Herbert Standing, Earlham, Iowa.
>

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