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History and Genealogy
of the Pearsall Family in England
and America:
Volume I
Front Cover
Inside Front Cover
The Motive
Thanks
Illustrations
Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Appendix I
Volume II
Volume III
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Peshale and his wife Ormunda de Stafford. Careful investigation has shown
that the first to call himself Pearsall was Edmond Pearsall, merchant of
the staple of London who lived in England
1531-1629 and he induced other members of the family not more closely
related to him than distant cousins, to adopt the same surname. This
Edmond Pearsall and his wife Maria Bathurst are the genearchs
or common ancestors of the American family of Pearsall who came to this
country in the seventeenth century. It is therefore evident that the
primary purpose of this family history after relating their ancestry, is to tell the story of the descent of our
line from Robert de Peshale who married Ormunda de Stafford, down to Edmond Pearsall who
married Maria Bathurst. From this the line of descent follows the
emigration of Thomas Pearsall, their youngest son, to Virginia and the
subsequent emigration of some of his sons to the towns of Pearsall,
Middle-burg, Newtown and Flushing in Western Long Island in New Netherlands,
now New York. Also the line flowing from Samuel, the youngest son of
Thomas Pearsall, who remained in the Chesapeake Country. And also the
Pearsall family which in this generation began when the sons of Robert
Pearsall, brother of Thomas and eldest son of Edmond and Maria Pearsall,
came to America and settled the one in the Chesapeake Country and the
other on the Islands adjacent to the eastern end of the said Long Island,
and from which in several generations came the American family of Parshall. To make the story of our ancestry more
complete the work includes, so far as we could get the same, a
genealogical statement of the ancestry of our mothers, the wives of our
male ancestors, and in each generation we have given also such a complete
genealogy of the brothers of our male ancestor as we were able to
compile. Applying this information to the scheme of the book gives this
chart:
If the reader is
interested in the pre-American ancestry of the Pearsalls
he has but to read the first section of each of the chapters from two to
ten inclusive to get the male ancestry of Robert de Peshale.
And to read sections two and three of chapter eleven to get the male
ancestry of Ormunda de Stafford, the wife of
Robert de Peshale. If he will read the first
section of each of the chapters from eleven to twenty-five inclusive he
will get the ancestry of Edmond Pearsall.
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