Margery (Smith) Pearson (abt. 1658 - abt. 1747)

Born about 1 Jul 1658 in Pownall Fee, Chester (Cheshire), England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Pearson Sr. — married 18 Feb 1683 in Pownall Fee, Chester (Cheshire), England

Descendants

Died about 1747 at about age 88 in Marple, Chester, Province of Pennsylvania

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Biography

Margery (Smith) Pearson was a part of William Penn's Pennsylvania Settlers community.

Margery was a Friend (Quaker)

Margery was born 1 Jul 1658.^[1] She is frequently seen with the middle name Ellen which appears nowhere in any primary source records and is fictitious.

She married Thomas Pearson in 1683 in the house of Thomas Janney.^[2][3] Shortly after their marriage, the departed Liverpool on the ship Endeavor and arrived Philadelphia/Delaware River in 1683.^[4]

Marriage Notes for Margery Smith and Thomas Pearson

Anno 1683 . Whereas Thomas Peirson of Pownall ffee in the County of Chester Mason: And Margery Smith Daughter of Robert and Ellen Smith of the same township and County aforesaid haveing declared their Intentions of marriage Sundry times at severall publickque meetings of the people of god called Quakers within the county aforesaid: Which was Approved off by those meetings) Now these are to certifie all people whom it may Concern) That for the full determining of the intentions aforesd: The Eighteenth day of the second month in the year of 1683) In an Assembly of the people of god aforesaid at the house of Thomas Janney of pownall ffee and County aforesaid the said Tho Peirson did sollemnly in the feare of god according to the example of the holy men of god

Recorded in the scriptures of truth: Take the said Margery Smith to be his wife in these words (viz: ffriends in the feare of god and in the presents of you all doe I take Margery Smith to be my wife promissing to be unto her a true Loveing and faithfull husband Soe long as we both shall Live) And likewise she the said Margery Smith did then and there take the said Tho Peirson to be her husband in these words viz friends in the feare of the Lord and in the presents of you all doe I take Tho Peirson to be my husband promissing to be unto him a Loveing and faithfull wife soe long as it shall please the lord we shall Live Tho Peirson

And we who were present at their taking Margery Peirson each other hand hereunto set or hands the day and yeare aforesaid

Robert Smith Raph Brock Mary Smith Katherine Lambe Ellen Smith John Bradbury Sarah Peirson Mary Peirson Will Smith John Nixon Ellen Curbishley Mary Lambe Robt Smith junr Hugh Burgis Eliz Burgis Martha Lambe John Smith Tho Hide Ellen Curbishley junr Eliz Lambe John Bancroft Henry Burgis Sarah Leighton Margery Janney John Peirson Tho Janney Margaret Burgis Ellen Worsley Thomas Pott John Hobson Hannah ffaukner Jane Smith John Lambe Henry Janney Mary Bancroft Ellen Smith Thomas Heald junr Joseph Janney Dinah Bancroft Sarah Kelsall Joseph Millner Mary Duncalfe Phebe Cash

Note: she is frequently seen with the middle name Ellen which appears nowhere in primary source records and is fictitious.

Sources

1. ↑ Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials. Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, RG 6. The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England. Piece 1398: Monthly Meeting of Cheshire, formerly Morley (1654-1776), Frame 22.
2. ↑ Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials. Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, RG 6. The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England. Piece 1256: Quarterly Meeting of Cheshire and Staffordshire: Cheshire (1667-1721), Frame 54
3. ↑ Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials. Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, RG 6. The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England. Piece 1036: Monthly Meeting of Cheshire, formerly Morley (1655-1741), Frame 38
4. ↑ https://www.chester.pa-roots.com/misc/individual_ships_of_penn.htm

Acknowledgments

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