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Biography
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Pearson-35
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John Pearson was born 5 Sep 1654 in Pownall Fee, Cheshire, England.<ref>Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials. Records of the General Register Office, GovernmentSocial Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, RG 6. The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England. Piece1398: Monthly Meeting of Cheshire, formerly Morley (1654-1776), Frame21</ref> He purchased 250 acres from William Penn in 1681 but whether this was done in person is unknown.<ref name="PearsonHist">Pearson, Ralph E., Pearson Family History https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_p... This document can be difficult to read but has a great deal of information, generally with documentation.</ref> He came to Pennsylvania on the Endeavor 1683, whether a first or second trip is uncertain, with his brother Thomas, Thomas' wife Margery and Margery's sister Mary.<ref>SHEPPARD, WALTER LEE, JR., compilerand editor. Passengers and Ships prior to 1684. (Publications of the Welcome Society of Pennsylvania, 1.) Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1970. 245p. Reprinted by Heritage Books, Bowie, MD, 1985.</ref> In various sources he is listed as having been a weaver in England andthat he continued this profession in Pennsylvania but in other records he refers to himself as a farmer.<ref name="PearsonHist" /> His Willmakes no mention of a wife or children and it is thought that he had been a bachelor. The Will leaves small sums to various individuals, 10pounds toward the construction of a new meeting house in Newtown, 6 pounds toward "paleing in the grave yard" (this may mean fencing) at Springfield Meeting, and the balance of all his money and possessions isleft to the children of his brothers Edward and Thomas. He died 1709 where he lived in Newtown, Chester, Pennsylvania.<ref name="PearsonHist" />
Origins
https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/175866/I8070/anne-worth/registry
Children of Anne Worth and Lawrence Pearson are:
- Mary Pearson was born ABT 1647 in Styall, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England.
- Martha Pearson was born ABT 1650 in Pownal Fee, Cheshire, England, and died 1658.
- Edward Pearson was born 1651 in Pownal Fee, Cheshire, England, and died 03 JUN 1697 in Bucks Co, Pennsylvania.
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John Pearson's Timeline
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September 5, 1654
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Pownall Fee, Cheshire, England (United Kingdom)
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| 1709 |
March 7, 1709
Age 54
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Newtown, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States
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Igi, 1945, 1984, F
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