Joseph Pleasants, of Pickanockie

Children of Joseph Pleasants and Martha Cocke are:

2. Joseph Pleasants II, died 1758.

Biography

From https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/h/o/o/Terrill-Hooks/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-...

Joseph Pleasants (II), of "Picquinoque", married first, Sarah Goode, daughter of Joseph Goode of Dale Parish of Henrico County, later in Chesterfield County.Mr. Pleasants was disowned by the Society of Friends for his marriage outside the Society on July 2, 1726, but was reinstated August 5, 1732.

On November 5, 1732, Joseph Pleasants and Elizabeth Woodson, daughter of John and Judith (Tarleton) Woodson, were married at the Curles Meeting House, Henrico County, Virginia.

The will of Joseph Pleasants was recorded in 1758, but was among the destroyed records.His children are not all known but seven of them were named in court records concerning settlement of his estate."page 88

Taken from the Notes of the Henrico Co, VA, monthly meetings as noted in the Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol VI, Pg. 204

"1723, 7, 7. Joseph suffered seizure for yrs 1715-1723 1 hhd tobacco taken by Henry Soane, a feather bed taken by Joseph Royall, 2 hhd wt of tobacco taken by John Soane, 1 hhd tobacco taken by Henry Anderson; imprisoned by Thomas Jefferson for 50 shill sterling" (Landholders in colonial Virginia were required by law to attend and tithe to the Anglican church, even if they attended another denomination.There was little, or no, religious toleration in the colony.They were also fined for refusing to bear arms, which,as a Quaker,Joseph naturally did.

More About Joseph Pleasants II and Sarah Goode:

Marriage: Bef. July 02, 1726, Virginia.5745

Children of Joseph Pleasants II and Sarah Goode include:

• +William Pleasants, b. Abt. 1728, Henrico County, Virginia5746, d. December 09, 1784, Dale Parish, Chesterfield County, Virginia5747

named in his father’s will

Will of Joseph Pleasants: 9 Sept. 1725; [Proved in Henrico, Virginia 7 Feb. 1726.]

Son Joseph Pleasants, land and plantation whereon Richd. Baze now lives known by name of Pickanockey, beginning at mouth of Horse Swamp thence up said swamp to a large branch of the same, parting that plantation and the one which Richard Baze's wife now lives at, thence up said branch until it meets Obediah Smith's line thence along said line to head, including in said bounds the 100 acres formerly Thomas Robinsons, the whole tract containing by estimate 300 acres. ...

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From link to Historical Genealogy of the Woodsons and Their Connections, Part l H. M. Woodson, 1915 - and Page 32

Issue of 6 JOHN WOODSON3 (Robert,2 John1) and Judith Tarleton.

VIII 28 Elizabeth,4 born about 1708, in Henrico county, Virginia. She married Joseph Pleasants, of Pickanockie, who was a son of John Pleasants, who emigrated from Norwich, England, in 1665, to Virginia, settling at Curles on James River, in 1668. He died there May 12, 1698, aged 54 years. The name Pleasants is a no less prominent one in Virginia and the southern and western states than that of Woodson. A majority of the family until the last generation have lived in the gentle tenets of the Society of Friends. The collateral connections of Randolph, Bates, Atkinson, Webster, Brooke, etc., have reflected honor on the lineage. (R. A. Brock, Pres., Va. Historical Society.) It is believed that 28 Elizabeth Woodson4 was the second wife of Joseph Pleasants. There was no issue to this marriage. By his first wife, whose name was Martha Cocke, he had probably, several children, one of whom was John Pleasants3 of Pickanockie, who married 81 Susannah Woodson.6

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• http://www.jstor.org/stable/1919804
  • "4 JOHN8 WOODSON (Robert2, John1) was the "cousin" (nephew) John Woodson named in the will of John Woodson, Sr. He was a merchant and married Judith, daughter of Stephen Tarleton, of New Kent county. Charles Van dcr Veer Woodson wrote to Mr. Brock that he had a looking-glass, framed in walnut, which bears the following inscription: "This glass belonged to Stephen Tarleton, who was my great-grandfather, and died in the year 1687. I have had the present frame put on it this 14th of December, 1794.-Charles Woodson." In 1712, Judith Woodson relinquished her dower rights in land deeded by her husband, John Woodson, merchant, of the parish and county of Henrico. He made his will in 1715, and was dead in 1716. Issue: 13 Tarleton, 14 John, 15 Robert, Jr., 16 Josiah, 17 Stephen, 18 Jacob, 19 Judith, "married Stephen Cox." 20 Elizabeth, married "John Pleasants, of Pickanockie."