The following is quoted from Ruth Pearson Harper's "History of the Pearson Family of Wayne County, North Carolina 1700-1981" (1982), page 14:
Ichabod Pearson I (for the story of this name see I Samuel 4:21), son of Jonathan Pearson and Rebecca Elliott, was born in Perquimans County, date unknown. He married Miriam Lamb of Pasquotank County on 9- -1774 and the marriage was reported to Perquimans Monthly Meeting 10-5-1774. She was the daughter of William and Miriam Lamb and sister of Mark's wife, Elizabeth. In a letter written in 1875 by Miriam's youngest child, William Pearson born 9-22-1797, William said that his grandfather was William Lamb. He said that both parents died when he was very young.
Nobody left a record of how Jonathan Pearson and all his family made the journey to Dobbs (now Wayne) County (North Carolina) about 1775-76. Before this time many Quaker families had migrated to Guilford and Randolph Counties. Using the ferries, they went overland through Northampton County and the Quaker settlement at Rich Square. Some traveled south from there to Dobbs County (Wayne 1779). Jonathan and Sarah (his second wife) and their children, married and single, and possibly Pearson cousins settled in the northeastern part of the county on the north side of Nahunta Swamp. The first legal record shows that in 1787 Ichabod I obtained a land grant from the State for 640 acres; he received other grants, all smaller, in succeeding years. The records of his estate date from 1803. There are a few items in the women's minutes of Contentnea Monthly Meeting about the family. The minutes of the men's meeting have been lost.
On 3-6-1776 Perquimans Monthly Meeting "granted a certificate to Jonathan Pearson to a monthly meeting in Dobbs County at Great Contentnea." The women's minutes say that on 2-10-1776 Miriam, wife of Ichabod, and Ann, wife of Peter Pearson III, were received. The daughters--Jemimah, Rachel, and Rhoda--were all received within a year. The following year both Jemimah and Rachel were disowned for having found husbands outside the Quaker fellowship.
Jonathan, now an old man for that time, did not acquire any land. The date of his death is unknown; the marriage certificate of his daughter Elizabeth to Richard Ratliff is proof that he died before 2-22-1784. The death of Sarah was not recorded either. No doubt they were buried near the family home.
Ichabod Pearson I (for the story of this name see I Samuel 4:21), son of Jonathan Pearson and Rebecca Elliott, was born in Perquimans County, date unknown. He married Miriam Lamb of Pasquotank County on 9- -1774 and the marriage was reported to Perquimans Monthly Meeting 10-5-1774. She was the daughter of William and Miriam Lamb and sister of Mark's wife, Elizabeth. In a letter written in 1875 by Miriam's youngest child, William Pearson born 9-22-1797, William said that his grandfather was William Lamb. He said that both parents died when he was very young.
Nobody left a record of how Jonathan Pearson and all his family made the journey to Dobbs (now Wayne) County (North Carolina) about 1775-76. Before this time many Quaker families had migrated to Guilford and Randolph Counties. Using the ferries, they went overland through Northampton County and the Quaker settlement at Rich Square. Some traveled south from there to Dobbs County (Wayne 1779). Jonathan and Sarah (his second wife) and their children, married and single, and possibly Pearson cousins settled in the northeastern part of the county on the north side of Nahunta Swamp. The first legal record shows that in 1787 Ichabod I obtained a land grant from the State for 640 acres; he received other grants, all smaller, in succeeding years. The records of his estate date from 1803. There are a few items in the women's minutes of Contentnea Monthly Meeting about the family. The minutes of the men's meeting have been lost.
On 3-6-1776 Perquimans Monthly Meeting "granted a certificate to Jonathan Pearson to a monthly meeting in Dobbs County at Great Contentnea." The women's minutes say that on 2-10-1776 Miriam, wife of Ichabod, and Ann, wife of Peter Pearson III, were received. The daughters--Jemimah, Rachel, and Rhoda--were all received within a year. The following year both Jemimah and Rachel were disowned for having found husbands outside the Quaker fellowship.
Jonathan, now an old man for that time, did not acquire any land. The date of his death is unknown; the marriage certificate of his daughter Elizabeth to Richard Ratliff is proof that he died before 2-22-1784. The death of Sarah was not recorded either. No doubt they were buried near the family home.
The following is quoted from Ruth Pearson Harper's "History of the Pearson Family of Wayne County, North Carolina 1700-1981" (1982), page 14:
Ichabod Pearson I (for the story of this name see I Samuel 4:21), son of Jonathan Pearson and Rebecca Elliott, was born in Perquimans County, date unknown. He married Miriam Lamb of Pasquotank County on 9- -1774 and the marriage was reported to Perquimans Monthly Meeting 10-5-1774. She was the daughter of William and Miriam Lamb and sister of Mark's wife, Elizabeth. In a letter written in 1875 by Miriam's youngest child, William Pearson born 9-22-1797, William said that his grandfather was William Lamb. He said that both parents died when he was very young.
Nobody left a record of how Jonathan Pearson and all his family made the journey to Dobbs (now Wayne) County (North Carolina) about 1775-76. Before this time many Quaker families had migrated to Guilford and Randolph Counties. Using the ferries, they went overland through Northampton County and the Quaker settlement at Rich Square. Some traveled south from there to Dobbs County (Wayne 1779). Jonathan and Sarah (his second wife) and their children, married and single, and possibly Pearson cousins settled in the northeastern part of the county on the north side of Nahunta Swamp. The first legal record shows that in 1787 Ichabod I obtained a land grant from the State for 640 acres; he received other grants, all smaller, in succeeding years. The records of his estate date from 1803. There are a few items in the women's minutes of Contentnea Monthly Meeting about the family. The minutes of the men's meeting have been lost.
On 3-6-1776 Perquimans Monthly Meeting "granted a certificate to Jonathan Pearson to a monthly meeting in Dobbs County at Great Contentnea." The women's minutes say that on 2-10-1776 Miriam, wife of Ichabod, and Ann, wife of Peter Pearson III, were received. The daughters--Jemimah, Rachel, and Rhoda--were all received within a year. The following year both Jemimah and Rachel were disowned for having found husbands outside the Quaker fellowship.
Jonathan, now an old man for that time, did not acquire any land. The date of his death is unknown; the marriage certificate of his daughter Elizabeth to Richard Ratliff is proof that he died before 2-22-1784. The death of Sarah was not recorded either. No doubt they were buried near the family home.
Ichabod Pearson I (for the story of this name see I Samuel 4:21), son of Jonathan Pearson and Rebecca Elliott, was born in Perquimans County, date unknown. He married Miriam Lamb of Pasquotank County on 9- -1774 and the marriage was reported to Perquimans Monthly Meeting 10-5-1774. She was the daughter of William and Miriam Lamb and sister of Mark's wife, Elizabeth. In a letter written in 1875 by Miriam's youngest child, William Pearson born 9-22-1797, William said that his grandfather was William Lamb. He said that both parents died when he was very young.
Nobody left a record of how Jonathan Pearson and all his family made the journey to Dobbs (now Wayne) County (North Carolina) about 1775-76. Before this time many Quaker families had migrated to Guilford and Randolph Counties. Using the ferries, they went overland through Northampton County and the Quaker settlement at Rich Square. Some traveled south from there to Dobbs County (Wayne 1779). Jonathan and Sarah (his second wife) and their children, married and single, and possibly Pearson cousins settled in the northeastern part of the county on the north side of Nahunta Swamp. The first legal record shows that in 1787 Ichabod I obtained a land grant from the State for 640 acres; he received other grants, all smaller, in succeeding years. The records of his estate date from 1803. There are a few items in the women's minutes of Contentnea Monthly Meeting about the family. The minutes of the men's meeting have been lost.
On 3-6-1776 Perquimans Monthly Meeting "granted a certificate to Jonathan Pearson to a monthly meeting in Dobbs County at Great Contentnea." The women's minutes say that on 2-10-1776 Miriam, wife of Ichabod, and Ann, wife of Peter Pearson III, were received. The daughters--Jemimah, Rachel, and Rhoda--were all received within a year. The following year both Jemimah and Rachel were disowned for having found husbands outside the Quaker fellowship.
Jonathan, now an old man for that time, did not acquire any land. The date of his death is unknown; the marriage certificate of his daughter Elizabeth to Richard Ratliff is proof that he died before 2-22-1784. The death of Sarah was not recorded either. No doubt they were buried near the family home.
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