Thomas Pearsall

'Source: ancestry.com: Thomas Pearsall Found 10 Records, 10 Photos and 181,387 Family Trees Born in Eccleshall, Saffordshire, England on 1592 to Edmund Pearsall and Maria Bathurst. Thomas married Mary Brent and had 5 children. He passed away on 1642 in Virginia Colonies. Family Members Parents Edmund Pearsall 1559-1629 Maria Bathurst 1563-1628

Spouse(s) Mary Brent 1594-1587

Children Thomas Pearsall 1613-1701 Henry Pearsall 1623-1668 George Pearsall 1615-1760 Nicholas Pearsall 1620-1687 Samuel Pearsall 1646-1653

'Thomas Pearsall - Tobacco Business

PEARSALL BOOK REF: [27-1] p 966 vol II. "As early as 1613 Thomas Pearsall assumed the management of his father's tobacco business in England, Holland and Virginia. In 1615 he acquired this business as his own at the time of his father's retirement from active participation in the concerns of his trading as a member of the Grocers Guild of London.

Thomas Pearsall did not finally remove to VA until sometime after 1630. Before this he traveled back and forth between the three places and was to be found wherever the conditions of the trade demanded his personal attention. The most of his time after 1621 was nevertheless spent in VA, which became the place where the tocacco business of the world centered after the expiration of the tobacco monopoly

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• Staffordshire pedigrees based on the visitation of that county (1912)
• https://archive.org/details/staffordshireped00dugd
• https://archive.org/stream/staffordshireped00dugd#page/379/mode/1up
• Pg.186
  • PERSHALL OR PESHALL - CHART
• Richard Peshall.; ch: Thomas, James, Robert, Edmond (m. Mary Bathurst) Peshall/Pershall
• Edmond Pershall Merch't of Lond. ob. 1629. = Mary d. of Randle Bathurst Ald. of London of ye house of Finchcocks in Kent.; ch: Edmond, Thomas Pershall
• 1. Edmond Pershall of Over in co: Cestr. aet. 63 an 1664. _____________________________________

Biography of Thomas Pearsall: England and Virginia

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Thomas Pearsall, son of Edmund Pearsall, was the manager of the tobacco business in America. At his father's death, he was named one of the executor's of his father's estate. There was very little estate left to consider. The American enterprise was proceeding well, but in England, aside from the demise of Edmund's fortune at the end of his life, the Staffordshire family lost most of their lands as a result of their loyalty to the Catholic church and to the Stuarts to whom they owed the loyalty of family connection as well as the religious bond of the church.

On June 24, 1649 young Prince Charles was crowned Charles II by Scotland. Cromwell's forces defeated the Scots:

"Cromwell was at least spared the anxiety of deciding what was to be done with a second royal prisoner. Charles threw himself upon the loyalty of a Royalist gentleman I the neighborhood and he was not deceived. In after days men told how he had been seated in the branches of an oak whilst the troopers who were searching for him rode below. Dressed as a servant he rode to Bristol, with a lading riding on a pillion behind. At Charmouth he hoped to find a vessel to carry him to France. But the master of the ship refused to go. It was not till he reached Brighton, then a small fishing village, that he found the help that he wanted, and made is escape from England in safety."

"Almost immediately the spies of the Commonwealth discovered evidence of a meeting of royal supporters having been held in Staffordshire, and a warrant was issued to commit Sir John Pershall Bart. As a prisoner to the Tower for holding correspondence with enemies of the Commonwealth...." (Ibid. p. 941)

Sir John's property was seized by the Commonwealth in portions of two thirds. Two thirds of the remaining third and so forth.

"In the meantime the Commonwealth had been successful against its foreign foes and the navy reorganized by Vane had cleared the seas of Royalists and privateers. This marked the last of the great fleet of merchant ships, sailing under the English flag, belonging to Thomas Pearsall, the Brents, and other Virginia, Maryland and New Amsterdam supporters of the House of Stuart." [The Puritan Revolution, by Gardiner, p.169}

"In January 1652 England declared war against Holland and the seizure of Dutch ships began...This greatly if not entirely depleted the fleet of merchantmen belonging to the family in America." [ The Puritan Revolution, by S. R. Gardiner, page 169]

"Thus we see that all the vast fortunes made out of the tobacco patent and the tobacco trade, together with all the inherited landed estate of the Pershall family, which inheritance it had enjoyed for centuries, had gone to pay the cost of running the Commonwealth of England." {Pearsalls p.944]

At the accession to the throne of England of Charles II, and the return of the House of Stuart, in due season Sir John Pershall was made Keeper and Justice of the Peace for Stafford. (State Papers, Domestic, G. 144, 523.) His son, Sir Thomas Pershall was born in 1647 and died without an heir. At his death in February 1712, the baronetcy became extinct. He is buried in the family vault at Eccleshall Church.

Seventeen years of heavy losses associated with supporting the Royalist cause in England had extensive effects in the New World as well. "It is a serious thing to destroy seventeen years in the life of a pioneer. For example, Henry Pearsall of Hempstead only lived seven years after the restoration of King Charles II." [Pearsalls p.945}

Thomas Pearsall assumed the management of his father's tobacco business in Virginia in 1613. He took over this business in his own name at his father's retirement in 1615. After 1621, most of his time was spent in Virginia and in 1630 he settled there.

The persecutions that resulted from Elizabeth's Anglican rule confiscated goods or fined these "recusants". Support for Charles the First and then of his son caused vengeance against the family to extend even to the confiscating of lands and goods in Virginia and the destruction of merchant ships at sea.

"Sir John Pershall, senior had been interested in the tobacco venture in Virginia together with his cousin Thomas Pearsall. We have already seen how vastly his estate grew during his lifetime by the influx of wealth from the tobacco trading. Now two-thirds of it was sequestered to the Commonwealth {Cromwell's English government}. It must have been a rich plum. The officers of the Commonwealth did not confine themselves to what they could lay their hands on in England, but reached out for the property of the associates in Virginia as well. There lands, boats, equipment, stores, supplies and all went into the insatiable maw of the Cromwellian Dragon. Fortunately the settlement on Long Island being in a Dutch colony was beyond the reach of the Commonwealth of England. Nevertheless such of the vessels, not only of the Pearsalls, but of any of the king's followers, as were on the open sea or in English ports were speedily destroyed by the English navy or confiscated and sold under the English sequestration laws"(Pearsalls v. 2 p.940)

The Early Americans

1609. The Pearsalls settled in Virginia a decade before the Mayflower, as tobacco traders, having a monopoly in the business from the King James I, obligating themselves to pay the King 3000 pounds the first year and 7000 pounds annually. By 1620, this monopoly was revoked and Thomas Pearsall continued a free trader, but his son, Henry Pearsall appears on Long Island at Pearsall, Hell Gate and Hempstead and has many cattle on the plains. With this family, it was TRADE not religious freedom, that motivated them.

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Birth: 1571 in London, England

Emigration: AFT 1630 Chesapeake Area, Virginia Colony

Death: ABT 1642 in Isle Of Wight, Virginia

Occupation: Tobacco Trader

Note:

   Chapter 27, Section 1

Begin forwarded message:
From: Audrey Bowne <acbowne1@yahoo.com>
Date: April 2, 2008 10:54:08 AM PDT
To: Shirley Becker <skncr@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Bownes and Pearsalls 39 pages
Descendants of Edmund Pearsall
Father: Edmund PERSHALL b: ABT 1531

Mother: Maria BATHHURST b: 1555 in Alderman, Bathurst, London

Marriage 1 Mary BRENT b: ABT 1584 in Gloucester, England

   * Married: 1597 in London, Middlesex, England

Children

  1. Thomas PEARSALL b: 1609 in London, Middlesex, England

2. Henry PEARSALL b: 1611 in London, Middlesex, England
3. Nicholas PEARSALL PARCELL b: ABT 1613
4. George PEARSALL b: ABT 1605 in London, Middlesex, England
5. Samuel PEARSALL b: ABT 1620 in London, England
Sources:

  1. Type: Book

Author: Clarence Pearsall
Periodical: History and Genealogy of the Pearsall Family in England and America
Publication: H. S. Crocker, San Francisco 1928
Page: 1915 pages
Page: Chapter 26, Section 1, Page 856 & 967

1. ID: I09904
2. Name: Thomas PEARSALL
3. Sex: M
4. Birth: ABT. 1594 in Staffordshire, England
5. Death: 1642 in Virginia
6. Fact 1: He moved his family to Virginia in 1630.
7. Fact 2: He had been living in Virginia doing business since 1621.

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2. Thomas2 Pearsall (Edmond1 Pershall) was born in England 1594. Thomas died 1642-3 in VA, at 305 years of age.

He married Mary Brent. Mary is the daughter of William Brent. Thomas Pearsall, son of Edmund Pearsall, was the manager of the tobacco business in America. At his father's death, he was named one of the executor's of his father's estate. There was very little estate left to consider. The American enterprise was proceeding well, but in England, aside from the demise of Edmund's fortune at the end of his life, the Staffordshire family lost most of their lands as a result of their loyalty to the Catholic church and to the Stuarts to whom they owed the loyalty of family connection as well as the religious bond of the church.

In 1942, "The Fabulous Pearsalls" by Herbert Seversmith and Arthur Wardwellan was published in THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST Vol. 18; 78-90; 153-171. In the article, the authors questioned the accuracy of the documentation for Thomas Pearsall, his existence on Long Island, of him being the father of Henry Pearsall of Hempstead, or of Henry having any brothers. Hopefully, further research by Pearsall descendants and other interested researchers will verify the accuracy of this lineage.

Thomas Pearsall and Mary Brent had the following children:

2 i. Thomas2 Pearsall was born in England 1609. Thomas died abt 1667 in Long Island, NY.

3 ii. Henry Pearsall was born abt 1611. Henry died abt 1664. He married Ann Pankhurst. Ann was born abt 1624. Ann died abt 1667. He was one of the founders of Hempstead, Long Island and was engaged in the family tobacco trade.

4 iii. Nicholas Pearsall was born abt 1613. He married Sarah ??.

5 iv. George Pearsall was born abt 1615. George died abt 1682. He married ?? ?? abt 1636.

+ 6 v. Samuel Pearsall was born abt 1620.

Thomas Pearsall assumed the management of his father's tobacco business in Virginia in 1613. He took over this business in his own name at his father's retirement in 1615. After 1621, most of his time was spent in Virginia and in 1630 he settled there.

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Thomas Pearsall, youngest son of Edmond, became progenitor of the family line in America. Born between 1573 and 1584 in London, as

early as 1613 he assumed management of his father's tobacco business in England, Holland, and Virginia. In 1615 he acquired this

business as his own, and thenceforth traveled back and forth between Europe and the New World. Sometime after 1630 he took up

permanent residence in Isle of Wight, Virginia, acquiring land there and in Maryland (St. Michael's Hundred, St. Mary's.) He died in

Virginia in 1642, and Mark Pheypo became administrator of his estate in Maryland.

Thomas Pearsall married circa 1607 in London Mary Brent, daughter of William Brent, of Gloucestershire and London, England. Her

mother is unknown

Children of Thomas Pearsall and Mary Brent, all born in England:

1. Thomas Pearsall, b. 1609, d. ca. 1667 Long Island. Wife unknown . . .

2. Henry Pearsall, b. ca 1611, m. ca 1645 Ann Valentine, widow of Moyles Williams. . . died ca 1664 . . .

3. Nicholas Pearsall b. ca 1613, m. Sarah ___ . . .

4. George Pearsall b. ca 1615, M. ca 1636, d ca 1682

5 Samual Pearsall b. ca 1617, d 1643. His wife is not known. He resided in Isle of Wight Co., Va and Kent Island, Talbot Co., Md.

Mormon LDS Records: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/af/individual_record.asp?rec...

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From: James Hughes [mailto:] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:18 PM Subject: RE:Pearsall

Henry Pearsall of Hempstead, Long Island, New York Resided at Pearsall (Lynbrook), Hellgate Neck, and Hempstead, Long Island, New Netherlands. He married Anne Valentine, widow of Moyles Williams. The Valentines were Dutch-English traders associated with the Pearsalls in Virginia in Isle of Wight County where they were also closely related by marriage with the Marshall family, so much so that it is generally accepted that from the marriage of a Valentine and a Marshall descended John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States and Thomas Marshall, Vice President of the United States. He was one of the founders of Hempstead, Long Island and was engaged in the family tobacco trade. He was the son of Thomas Pearsall.

Thomas Pearsall

He was born in England and died in Virginia 1642-3. He married Mary Brent, daughter of William Brent of Gloucestershire and London, England. Mary Brent was the sister of Margaret, Foulk and Giles Brent. The wife of Samuel Pearsall, (son of Thomas ) also named Mary and was sister to Margaret Peshall-Brent of Sisters Freehold. Thomas Pearsall was the son of Edmond Pearsall and Maria Bathurst.

http://home.teleport.com/~grafe/Pearsalls/Pearsalls/Pedigree.Americ...

{mm note - only part of the above statement is true, Mary was the daughter of Sir Richard Brent , Sheriff of Gloucestershire and Elizabeth Reade, both of Gloucestershire, England; This Mary died abt 1657 unmarried. Giles migrated to Maryland in 1638 with his brother, Fulke, and his sisters, Mary and Margaret, Fulke returned to England, Margaret died in Stafford Co. VA 1671.}

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/thomas_ma.... pdf

Thomas Riley Marshall had been little known outside his home town of Columbia City, Indiana, before he was
elected governor in 1908. Born in Indiana on March 14, 1854, he was the only child of a country doctor and his sickly wife. After moving to Illinois and Kansas for Mrs. Marshall's health, the family returned to Indiana where Thomas attended Wabash College. From his youth he intended to become a lawyer and spent many of his Saturdays in the courtroom listening to such prominent Indiana lawyer-politicians as Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Hendricks, and Daniel Voorhees—who became president, vice president, and senator, respectively. Marshall read law and went into practice in Columbia City. In his early years he was a hard-drinking man, who "wanted a barrel, not a drink." His intemperance persisted for years, and he often appeared hung over in court. A seemingly confirmed bachelor, he lived with his mother until her death. Shortly thereafter, however, at the age of forty-one, he married Lois Kimsey, a deputy in the office of her father, the county clerk in nearby Angola, Indiana. After several difficult years, his wife persuaded him to stop drinking, and after 1898 he never touched another alcoholic beverage.

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tibart&id=I04785

Thomas Pearsall, youngest son of Edmond, became progenitor of the family line in America. Born in London, as early as 1613 he assumed management of his father's tobacco business in England, Holland, and Virginia. In 1615 he acquired this business as his own, and thenceforth traveled back and forth between Europe and the New World. Sometime after 1630 he took up permanent residence in Isle of Wight, Virginia, acquiring land there and in Maryland (St. Michael's Hundred, St. Mary's.) He died in Virginia in 1642, and Mark Pheypo became administrator of his estate in Maryland. Thomas Pearsall married circa 1607 in London Mary Brent, daughter of William Brent, of Gloucestershire and London, England.

"In 1638, the last tobacco monopoly (the Dutch West Indies Company) was abolished. Open trade commenced and the Dutch-Englishmen left Virginia for Long Island. Thomas Pearsall kept his Virginia Home. His son Samuel took charge of the Kent Island business. Thomas Pearsall the younger, Nicholas, Henry and George moved to Long Island. (Pearsall p.983) The Pearsall brothers in Long Island were aided by their former Jailer (under Governor Wouter Van Twiller) and by the son of the former Governor Jorrison who was a family friend.
"Thomas Pearsall, Sr. Settled in St. Michael's Hundred, Maryland in 1642. He paid twenty three ponds of tobacco as property tax that year. (Archives of Maryland, page 146) The capitol of Maryland at this time was St. Mary's which was also located in St. Michael's Hundred. Thomas Pearsall died there in 1642." (Pearsalls 985) http://www.teleport.com/~grafe/Pearsalls/Tobacco.html [Conflicting info on place of death, but not on the fact that he owned land in Isle of Wight County, Virginia and in St. Mary's County, Maryland] http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=markfreeman&id=I12...

Contributed by: James Hughes

URL: http://www.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/speccol/sc3500/sc3520/002100/... html/mbrent2.html
URL title: MARGARET BRENT -- A BRIEF HISTORY Note: Aug. 2, 1638 Letter, Lord Baltimore to Leonard Calvert, orders that Margaret and Mary Brent shall have a grant of "as much Land in and about the Town of St. Maries and elsewhere in that Province in as ample manner and with as large priviledges as any of the first adventurors have" in respect of four maid servants besides them selves" that came with them and "in respect of the transportation thither of five men in the first year of that Plantation."

"In the Margine of the last foregoing Instruction is thus Entred vizt This warrant was assigned over by Mrs Margarett Brent unto James Clifton October 12th 1663, vide Lib AA: fo: 324. Brought into the Province of Maryland the 22th Novemb 1638 ... 4 maid servants, 4 men servants Thomas Ged SAMUEL PURSALL Francis Slaver John Stepens Mary Taylor Elizabeth Guesse Mary Lawne Elizabeth Brooks."

James Hughes 2005-12-16 12:11:43
Supplement to Early Settlers Query

Pursall, Samuel 1:25,31 Film No.: Transported 1638 Transcript. 2:604; AB&H:60,63; 12:83 Original. HH:89 MSA SC 4341-

Pursall, Thomas 1:132 Film No.: Transported himself by 1641 Transcript. AB&H:104 MSA SC 4341- Password: James Hughes 2005-12-16 18:42:35 Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court, 1649/50-1657Volume 10, Page 95 p. 212 Marks Pheipo Admrs of Samll Pursall late of Virginea deced demandeth of John Hallowes 20 l beaver due these 5 years & upwards to the Estate of the deceased by Bill, and demandeth damages of Non payment and charges of Suit Warn: to Court 4 ffebr pill Judgmt

James Hughes 2005-12-16 18:44:14
Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court, 1637-1650Volume 4, Page 266 Liber P. R. 1643 march 19. marks Phaypo admrator of Thomas Pursall demandeth of francis Gray Exeqr of Ja. Cauther 425 l tob & cask; due by bill.

James Hughes 2005-12-16 18:47:57
Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court, 1637-165Volume 4, Page 206 Liber P. R. Marks Pheypo Admrator of Tho: Pursall demandeth of John hollis 2000 l tob. for non paymt of 20 l of beaver due by acct these 2. yeares.

Marks Pheypo appeared to prove his allegaon agst Rob. Kedger, & produced the oath of nicholas Keytin (sup file) by wch appeared that the bill demanded was made for a boate WCh was returned; & made oath himself that the bill demanded was made in Anthony Belchers name by the appointmt of Ellis Richardson, in pnce of the said depont marks Pheypo. wher- vpon the Judge dissmissed the defendt without a day. & adiudged the plf to pay for damage 100 l. 1643

James Hughes 2005-12-16 18:40:42
Judicial and Testamentary Business of the Provincial Court, 1637-1650Volume 4, Page 254 Liber P. R. Marks Phaypo Admrator of Samuel Pursall demandeth of John hollis 20 l beaver due to the estate of the deceased. warn: to Cort 1st march next pill iudgmt

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