John (Jan) Purcell

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John Pursell Male 1698 -

   Birth  	1698  	Staten Island, Richmond, New York Find all individuals with events at this location 

   Gender  	Male 

   Baptism  	1698  	Port Richmond Dutch Church. Find all individuals with events at this location 

   Witness: Pieter Staats, Grytie Woggeum 

   Father  	Thomas Pursell,   b. Abt 1662, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1738, Dover, Kent Co., Delaware Find all individuals with events at this location 

   Relationship  	birth 

   Mother  	Christian van Woggelum,   b. Abt 1667, Port Richmon, Staten Island, New York Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1735 

   Family  	Hannah 

   Children  	

    	1. Thomas Pursell,   b. Bef 09 Apr 1720, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 12 Apr 1779, Loudoun County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location

    	2. John Pursell,   b. Bef 05 Nov 1721, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 08 Apr 1783, Bristol Township, Bucks, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location

    	3. Christiana Pursell,   b. 1722, Readington, Hunterton County, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 02 May 1805, Haycock Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location

    	4. Margaret Pursell,   b. Bef 02 Oct 1726

    	5. Johnathan Pursell

   Notes  	

       Also called John Pusel, John Purcel, second son of thomas Pursell by his first wife Christianea Van Woggelum, was born on Staten Island and was baptized at an unknown date in 1698 at the Port Richmond Dutch church, his name being given as Jan, his mother's name being omitted, and the witnesses Pieter Staats and Grietja Woggelum. the birth is put as early as 1690 by Dr. Cummins and located wrongly, in Somerset County, not then settled. When about seventeen, John Pursell was a Woodbridge militiaman with his father. Between 1720 and 1725 four of his children were baptized at the Readington Dutch church, Hunterdon County, the wife's name being given as Henah which, in view of the fact that she a a granddaughter Hannah Strawn, is almost certainly Hannah. No success has been had in identifying Hannah further, but it is probable that she was a girl from Woodbridge or Piscataway. In the Readington register a Hanah Hall witnessed the baptism of George, son of Alexander and Margaret McDowell, on 2 Oct. 1720. Our Hannah was already married to John Pursell but in Dutch registers women wre recored by their maiden name long after marriage. There was a Hall family in readington but this Hannah does not appear in such records of it as are extant. John Pursel was on 27 Feb. 1738/9 indicated as having been paid expenses incident to the settleing of the estate of Samuel Coate of Bethlehem Township, Hunterdon Cournty, waterman (NJ Calendar of Wills, 1730-1750, p 100). This information led to an examination of the well-recored wills of the Coate family which showed that it is imppossible that the wif eo John Pursell could have been a Coate.

       On 23 Dec 1725 John Pursell of Smerset County, yeoman, conveyed to Mordecah McKenney of the same county, for a consideration of six punds, land on the west dside of the north branch of the Raritan River (Trenton Deeds, G-2: 514), recorded 9 Aug. 1750. by conveyance dated 15 Oct. 1728, John bought from John Coate a property in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, which had originally belonged to John Coate's father Samuel (not the waterman named above). This consisted of a farm and a ferry business over the Delaware (Proc. N.J. Hist. Soc. 9 (1924): 198; 11 (2927) : 162). This property was sold by John Purcell on 8 Feb 1732/3, to Emanuel Coryell who thereafter operated a ferry over the old York road under his own name for many years. This ferry was at what is now clled Lamberville, N.J. John Pursly appears among the debtors of the estate of the merchant John Severns of Trenton in a list dated 4 Mar. 1732/3 (New Jersey Wills, 4:426). A John Pursell of Kingwood Township, Hunterdon County, had a letter awaiting him at Trenton on 10 Aug. 1758 (Pennsylvania Gazette no 1546; New Jersey Archives, 1:20:264). No probate has been found. J. P. Snell, History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, N.J., p. 496, says that John Pursell was an orignial member of the Lutheran Church at Readington.

       John, and his descendents are from The Pursell Family, by George F. Kent.