Rose (Dixon) Pierson (abt. 1661 - 1722)

Born about 1661 in Seagoe, County Armagh, Ireland [uncertain]

Wife of Thomas Pierson — married 1690 in Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 29 Sep 1722 at about age 61 in East Caln Township, Chester, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Rose was a Friend (Quaker)

Rose Dixon was born in Ireland to Henry and Rose Dixon in 1661. She came to America with her brother William and her sister Dinah when "he [William] joined the Quaker emigration from Ireland and came again to America, to William Penn's Colony of Pennsylvania, in that portion which now is Delaware, in 1688."^[1] They were members of the Newark Monthly Meeting in New Castle, Delaware, where Rose married Thomas Pierson in 1690.^[2] Thomas, a widower, was a Deputy Surveyor of New Castle County, Delaware.^[3]

The minutes for the eighth day twelfth month 1689 (8 February 1690) for the Newark monthly meeting include the announcement of their intention to marry:

The Monthly Meeting being held at Valentine Hollingworth, Thomas Peirson & Rose Dixon laying their intentions of marriage before this meeting. It's appointed yt George Harlan & Thomas Hollingsworth doe _____ Enquiry concer[n]ing ye clearness of ye man & Ann Hollingsworth & Mary Connoway to make Enquiry Concer[n]ing ye clearness of ye woman, and give an account thereof to ye next meeting.^[4]

At the next meeting, held on the first day first month 1689 (1 March 1690) the enquirers reported that "all was clear as far as they can understand. Wherefore ye meeting leaves [Rose and Thomas] to their liberty to take one another according to the good order of Truth."^[4]

Rose Pierson died 29 September 1722 in Chester, Pennsylvania.^[5] (Find a Grave gives the date as 1720.)^[6]

Children

According to Mary Bell Gant, Rose and Thomas had the following children:^[5]

• Rose (born October 1689)
• Susanna (born about 16 January 1692; married Aaron Mendenhall
• Sarah (b. about 1694)

Sources

1. ↑ from notes in William Dixon's profile.
2. ↑ "Rose Dixon." U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935. [1]
3. ↑ A.M.C., "Gregg-Dixon-Houghton, of Newcastle County, Delaware," The Literary Era, vol. 5, number 11, November 1898. [2] pg 331
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} "Newark/Kennett Monthly Meeting records 1686-1703." New Castle County, Delaware, Newark/Kennett Monthly Meeting Records, 1686 to 1692. USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or for other commercial presentation.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Bell, Mary Gant. Dixon Family History. [3]
6. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/203244444/rose-pierson: accessed 10 November 2022), memorial page for Rose Dixon Pierson (1661–1720), Find a Grave Memorial ID 203244444, citing Old Caln Friends Meeting Burial Ground, Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Lynne Lewellen (contributor 46833530) .

• Newark/Kennett Monthly Meeting records 1686-1703. [4]
• Standing, Herbert C. "Quakers in Delaware in the Time of William Penn." Delaware History, Fall-Winter 1982, pp. 123-147.[5]