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3/15/2019 at 8:31 AM

On Findagrave we read:
Mary Pearson Scarborough
BIRTH 27 May 1676
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 23 Jan 1750 (aged 73)
Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
BURIAL
Buckingham Friends Cemetery
Lahaska, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
MEMORIAL ID 45822637 ·

1)Keep in mind that her husband came to the colony in 1682
2) Keep in mind that Indians did not use a European Calendar in the 1870s
3) Keep in ming that Edward Pearson was of Pownal Fee along with his wife Sarah Pierson
* It is my personal bias at the moment that Edward and Sarah at the parents of Mary Ann Scarborough, Jr. and that she was born in England, not Middletown Township (1676)

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3/15/2019 at 8:41 AM

This following figures in this family history too:
1) "two of Edward's brothers went to Chester County in 1683"
2) "Edward came to Chester in 1687" < I assume then that his is when his daughter Mary also came and then married John Scarborough in 1690 at Middletown MM

"After Martin WILDMAN's first wife, Ann WARD, died, he married Sarah BURGESS PEARSON (Pierson/Peirson), the widow of Edward PIERSON (Pearson/Peirson). Sarah was born in Styal, a village in Wilmslow Parish, Cheshire, and christened in the Church of England 9 June 1650. She was the daughter of Edward BURGESS. Edward PIERSON was born in the same village of Styal about 1651, but there is no record in the parish register that he was christened. There is good reason to believe his family had already left the Church of England and (to) become very early followers of George Fox, who was soon to become founder of the Society of Friends or Quakers. Edward's father was Lawrence PEIRSON, which is the spelling he used in his 1673 will. Two of Edward's brothers emigrated to Chester County in 1683, but Edward, who had married Sarah in a Quaker service, 6 March 1672, stayed in Cheshire and fathered several children there before going to Chester County PA in 1687. After about a year (and another child born) at Darby in Chester Co, they moved on to the Fallsington area in Bucks County, where several of Sarah's siblings were already established. Edward died there 3 June 1697. Permission for Sarah and Martin WILDMAN to marry was granted by the Falls Monthly Meeting 2 November 1698, and they apparently married within a few days. Sarah PEARSON had become Sarah WILDMAN before Edward's estate was probated. Martin WILDMAN was buried in Bucks County 26 September 1699, as a Quaker. I presume some of Martin's children became sufficiently attached to Sarah and her children that the PEARSON name was used occasionally by Wildmans. Edward PEARSON was the brother of my 6-greats grandfather."
account of
Paul C. Palmer
already attached to Edward Pearson's profile

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3/15/2019 at 8:53 AM

I have considerable interest in this topic because Martin Wildman of Croasdale Grains is in my direct line of ancestry (he married Sarah Pierson

Additionally, in another direct separate line, I am descended from Mary Ann Scarborough, Jr.

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3/14/2022 at 1:54 PM

Hi Mike,

Thanks for responding. My (possible) ancestor Samuel Burges was the son of Samuel Burges (1645-1713) and Elin Pierson (1655-1731), who arrived in Bucks County around 1683 and settled in Fallsington. They were active in the Fall Friends Meeting. Samuel was the son of Edward Burges and wife Mary of Wilmslow, Cheshire. Very likely these people were closely related to your Burgess ancestors.

My possible connection is to one of the three daughters of the younger Samuel Burges, Ann, who may have married my ancestor Peter Dolin. A Burgess descendant who contacted me has inherited a transcription of an old notebook, dated 1701, kept by a John Burgess, a brother of Samuel, which notes several birth and death dates for Burgess relatives, and also notes the birth of a daughter of Ann and Peter Dolin, and the death of Ann Dolin in 1761. We have been trying to figure out why the Dolin entries would appear in a Burgess notebook, and one theory is that Ann was Ann Burges, daughter of Samuel, whose birth in 1714 is noted directly following the death of Ann Dolin.

At this point my focus is on proving or disproving the connection of Ann Burges to Peter Dolin. If it is established, I will turn my attention to my Burgess ancestors.

Thanks,

Nancy

On 3/14/2022 11:27 AM, mikvan52@vermontel.net wrote:
Hi Nancy,

Thanks for writing. Maybe we can find a connection... I don't seem to see a Samuel Burgess in the large tree on geni.com where I am a volunteer curator.
see attachment for a 4-gen-pedigree. Each peerson is on geni.com.

Let's talk so we can try to establish the parents of your Samuel Burges(s)...

By the way: My immigrant Burgess ancestor's url on geni is:
Sarah Pierson

Sarah Pierson (Burgess)
Gender: Female
Birth: June 14, 1641
Pownell Fee, Cheshire, England
Death: November 05, 1707 (66)
Province of Pennsylvania
Place of Burial: Falls Friends Meeting Cemetery, #01, Fallsington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States

perhaps your Samuel is a close relative?

Mike van Beuren

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 or by these email exchanges...

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