Enock Pearson Jr.
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Enoch Pearson Jr. (1718 - 1780)

Enoch (Enock) Pearson Jr.
Born in Bucks County, Pennsylvaniamap
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Husband of — married 1751 (to 21 Apr 1780) in Frederick, Virginiamap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 61 in Union, Union County, South Carolina, USAmap [uncertain]
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Biography

1776 Project
Enock Pearson Jr. served with 2nd Spartan Regiment, South Carolina Militia (Brandon's) during the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Enock Pearson Jr. is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A087025.
SAR insignia
Enock Pearson Jr. is an NSSAR Patriot Ancestor.
NSSAR Ancestor #: P267334
Rank: Soldier

Enoch Pearson Jr., was born at Falls Monthly Meeting in Bucks County; Pennsylvania on May 25th, 1718.[1] https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/22072322?h=337a26 Later on he was called “Enock” Pearson Sr. and spelled his first name with a “K” instead of an “H”. He wasn’t really born at the Falls Monthly Meeting, but was born under auspices of the Falls M.M. of Friends or “Quakers” as they were commonly called. The Society of Friends was a very strict religious society of believers organized about 1647 by George Fox of England. Enock’s parents belonged to the friends Church. They were Enoch Pearson of 1683 and Margery Smith of 1691, both born in England but came to America with their parents about 1687. Also, “Enock” wasn’t really born on May 25th but was born in the 3rd month of 1718. Most people would say he was born March 25, but in those days the year began two months later (about the beginning of Spring), so “Enock” was born in what is now May. So we shall say he was born in May with the advent of May flowers. Enock had older brothers and sisters. He also had younger brothers and sisters. Enock’s childhood was much like any other young “Quaker” in those days. He had to work hard helping with the farm work. Every Sunday was Lord’s Day and all went to meeting by buggy. Women and girls sat on one side of the Meeting House, while men and boys sat on the other side. The first part of the worship was sat in quiet meditation with God. Enock’s father had the first Lime-Kiln or Lime-Burner in Bucks County. Enock disliked this smelly, pungent, nose burning kiln, almost hating it. He disliked it so much that when he heard there was a young fellow in Virginia that taught surveying, he decided he wanted to become a surveyor. So, Enock and one of his cousins, a John Watson, packed up their few possessions and set out for Winchester, Virginia. This was a long and hard journey of over 225 miles, no roads, some paths, and infested with Indians. They had to shoot game along the way for their food. They finally arrived and met the young fellow whose first name was George, that would be teaching them surveying. They completed their course of instruction and with high marks they were offered a good job surveying a line to be the South boundary of Pennsylvania (or latitude 39° - 43’ - 17.6”). Being new at it and not really sure of their abilities, they turned the job down. The job was then offered to the next two young men, and they took the job and the two became famous as surveyors of the famed “Mason-Dixon Line”, or line between the North and the South over a hundred years later during the Civil War between the States. Otherwise it would have been called the “Pearson-Watson Line”. (We have no proof that this part of the story is true). Enock stayed on in Winchester and became good friends with his instructor, George. There was a man named Jonathan Jacocks who bought a plantation near Winchester in 1750 and was well known by George. Jonathan had a lovely daughter called “Tabitha”, and George introduced Enock to her. They were smitten with love and in 1751, Enock and Tabitha married in the Friends Meeting House, which was about 6 miles north of Winchester, and was called the Hopewell Meeting. They lived at her father’s homestead or plantation for a while. In January of 1756, George, who had become a Major in the Army and had moved away, came back to Winchester to talk with the County officials of Frederick Co. to rally a defense against the Indians. It is written in A HISTORY OF FREDERICK COUNTY, VIRGINIA. At the end of the meeting, Major George Washington adjourned to the home of Enock Pearson. Because of the Indian hostilities, Enock and Tabitha and their growing family moved back to Solebury, Bucks County, PA. in late 1756. They raised nine children there and had a tenth one later in South Carolina. Their children were as follows: Mary 1753, Thomas 1754, Margaret 1756, Sarah 1759, William, 1761 (see The Story of William “Billy” Pearson of 1761 “A colorful Character"), Rachel 1763, Tabitha 1765, Elizabeth 1767, Hannah 1770, Isaac 1771, Enoch III 1775 who was born with some kind of infirmity. In 1765 they joined the migration south of Quaker Friends and settled in the Sedalia section of Union County, SC and purchased a plantation of over 1000 acres. The war between England and America’s Colonies became fierce in the 1770’s and in 1776, 1779 and 1780 there were battles in Charleston, SC. Enock was in his late fifties (an old man already in those days), and besides was a Quaker pacifist who didn’t believe in fighting, but he couldn’t let his good friend George Washington down, who was now General George Washington so he joined the forces of Washington’s men and stood in the defense of Charleston. He was wounded, and died from the rigors of the revolutionary War in 1780. This was nine years before his good friend became the first president of the new United States of America. Enock died at age of 62 and was buried in the Pearson Cemetery, Union County, SC. On land that was originally his. His son William of 1761 was a colorful character and is included in another story on the site.

By: Elton E. Pearson SR. of 1926[2]

Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via daughter Margeret Margaret Burns (born Pearson) by SmartCopy: Jan 1 2015, 16:45:37 UTC

Birth

Date: 25 MAR 1718
Place: , Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA
Source: OneWorldTree Records for Tabitha Pearson and Enoch Pearson.

Death

Date: 1780
Place: Union, Union, South Carolina, USA
Source: OneWorldTree Records for Tabitha Pearson and Enoch Pearson.
Date: 21 Apr 1780
Place: Sedalia, Union County,, South Carolina, USA[3]

Will

Will was written on 20 Apr 1775.[4] https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/22072515?h=915083

Military

  • Soldier in the American Revolution.
  • Joined the Patriot cause because of his earlier friendship in Pennsylvania with George Washington.
  • service in the 2nd South Carolina Spartan Militia Regiment under the command of Col Thomas Brandon
  • British Siege of Charleston (29 Mar 1780 - 12 May 1780)
  • Died of wounds and "rigors of the war" sustained during that action while Charleston was still under siege.

Sources

  1. Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Births, Burials and Marriage Certificates, 1720-1801; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR Ph 47; Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 Ancestry Record 2189 #2571664
  2. Pearson's Places and Things. Volume 2 Issue 2, April 1998.
  3. Find A Grave: Memorial #38389335
  4. South Carolina. Probate Court (Charleston County); Probate Place: Charleston, South Carolina; Ancestry.com. South Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980
  • Ancestry.com. U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.Original data: Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970. Louisville, Kentucky: National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Microfilm, 508 rolls.
  • Source: S24 Ancestry Family Trees. User submitted. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network.
  • Source S20 OneWorldTree (Ancestry.com). User submitted. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
  • Source: S1 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Public Member Trees Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006; Repository: #R1
  • Repository: R1 Name: www.ancestry.com Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:

Acknowledgments

  • WikiTree profile Pearson-360 created through the import of knox17032011.ged on 18 March 2011 by Mary Knox.
  • WikiTree profile Pearson-773 created through the import of Ellen Kropp_s Family Tree.ged on Sep 7, 2011 by Ellen Kropp.
  • WikiTree profile Pearson-1188 created through the import of Bowden-Riley Family.ged on Apr 16, 2012 by Sam Bowden.




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Correction: Thomas Pierson, the surveyor for William Penn was from Bristoll, England arrived on the ship Bristoll Comfort 28 Sep 1683 was the surveyor, Penn originally commissioned to survey the boarder with John Watson in 1701-1705 and they failed to survey the sourthern boarder. He died in Caln, Chester, PA 29 Sep 1722.

This Enoch was not born then. No relationship has been established between he and the Thomas Pearson -Mason 1753-1734 brother of Edward Pearson -Mason m Sarah Burgess from Pownall Fee, Cheshire, England.

Research by Eugene L Pearson The Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of Thomas and Edward Pearson of County Chester, England and Pennsylvania within the Book Pearson's by E B Hazie 1976 part II p 174 under Enoch Pearson 1718-1780 (which also doesn't match the records-cousins of a man not yet born? maybe cousins of his father Enoch?) "Thomas Pearson II and John Watson, who were both cousins of Enoch, had established reputations as surveyors in Pennsylvania. According to old court records of Delaware County, in the year 1701, Thomas unwittingly cost our name some prestige by his failure to finish surveying the sourthern border of Pennsylvania and turning the job over to Mason and Dixon." Mason-Dixon line was finally surveyed 1763-1768

Mason-Dixon Line papers These papers include the original warrant of William Penn to Isaac Taylor and Thomas Pierson to survey the line between Chester County and New Castle County, Del., 1701-1705 (Am .2349); diary of John Watson, assistant surveyor to the Commissioners of the Province of Pennsylvania, on the determinatio...

(would love to see John Watson's Diary) These papers include the original warrant of William Penn to Isaac Taylor and Thomas Pierson to survey the line between Chester County and New Castle County, Del., 1701-1705 (Am .2349); diary of John Watson, assistant surveyor to the Commissioners of the Province of Pennsylvania, on the determination of the 12-mile circle at New Castle and running the east-west boundary lines from Cape Henlopen, Del., 1750-1751(Am .233); the original manuscripts of the Mason and Dixon surveys, including the one that established the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, 1763-1768 (Am .235); and Samuel Lightfoot's survey of the Mason-Dixon line, 1850 (Am .2351).

posted by Angela (Jones) Harlan
edited by Angela (Jones) Harlan
Three of the eleven children named in this biography are not named in Enock's will of 1775: Elizabeth (1767), Hannah (1770) and Enoch III (1775). Since Tabitha was "grate with child" when the will was written in April 1775, one can assume her child was Enoch III, born that year. I see Hannah died an infant and Enoch III was born in 1775, so alluded to in the will. Where was Elizabeth? Did she die young?
I believe this death date of 1780 is incorrect, or this is a merge of two different Enoch Pearsons.

Enoch Pearson made a will 20 April 1775 in South Carolina stating he was of Ninety-Six district and was a surveyor. The will mentions wife Tabitha daughter of Jonathan "Jacoaks", who was "grate with child". It also mentions children: Mary Prather, Margaret Burns, Thomas, William, Isaac, Sarah, Rachel and Tabitha. It mentions son-in-law Josiah Prather and granddaughter Tabitha Prather. Detailed descriptions of his land is also given.

Pearson-360 and Pearson-1188 appear to represent the same person because: Appear to be the same - your profile is more complete than mine overall so I'm proposing my Pearson-1188 be merged into your Pearson-360.

Sam Bowden

posted by Sam Bowden Jr
Pearson-360 and Pearson-773 appear to represent the same person because: Clearly the same. The two records for his wife will also need to be merged. On place/date of death, none of the sources given can be considered reliable. I would suggest using 1780, SC, and noting the conflicting dates/places, along with the sources for that data, in the Bio section.
posted by Fred Remus III