MARYLAND "PEARL" INFORMATION
Will Index, Maryland:
1686/7 - James Pearl, bk 4, pg 238 (No Co. named)
1692 - Wm. Pearle, Kent Co., bk 6, pg 18
1765 - Robert Pearl, Frederick Co., bk 33, pg 351
Early Settlers, Maryland - Gust Skordas:
Henry Pearle - Service 1672.
Wm. Pearle - Transptorted 1676.
Wm. Pearle - Transported 1679.
Transported means that someone else paid.
(Need to check this again at library.)
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PERLE FAMILY
1. Robert Perle, born say 1700, was called "alias Malatto Robin" when
he appeared in Prince George's County Court between 1728 and 1735. He sued
John Bursh in March 1728, but the case was agreed between them before trial,
and he was sued for 972 pounds of tobacco in June 1728. In November 1735 he
petitioned the court deposing that the main road ran through his plantation
and people riding through were always leaving the gate open. The court
appointed a jury to view the road and make a decision [Court Record 1728-9,
52, 209, 220; 1734-5, 642]. He was apparently the father of
i. Daniel, born say 1720, a "Mullato," who married a white woman, Elizabeth
Graves, before November 1742 when the Prince George's County Court presented
her for the offense on information of Thomas Wilson and Edward Mobberly
[Court Records 1742-3, 191].
(NOTE: Robert Pearl, actually born closer to 1685, was probably the son of Richard
Marsham, a white widower, whose wife died in 1670. Marsham didn't marry again until 1699,
at which time he married Anne Calvert, the granddaughter of Lord Baltimore. Marsham's
will is found HERE, and a careful examinination reveals that the slave Sarah, followed by
mulattos, Robert Pearl and James, were favored by Marsham. Perhaps Sarah was
the woman in his life after his wife's death? Are Robert and James the sons of
Richard Marsham and Sarah? Court records indicate that Robert's mother was a slave.)
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1. WILL of ROBERT PEARL of Frederick County - 3 Sept, 1765, sick.
In the name of God Amen. I, Robert Pearl, of Frederick Co., Maryland,
being sick amd weak of body, but of sound mind and memory, do make this
my last will and testament, revoking and making void all other wills
heretofore made by me in manner following, Viz;
ITEM: I give and bequeath to my son, Daniel Pearl, negroes Peter, Rachel,
Nan, and Harry, to him and his heirs forever.
ITEM: I give and bequeath to my son James Pearl, negroes Lucy, Pegg,
Jenney, Jo and Li_s, to him and his heirs forever.
ITEM: I give and bequeath to my son, Daniel Pearl my riding horse and
my own lodging bed and furniture.
I leave to Elizabeth Jeavis 4 barrels of Indian corn and one barrel of
wheat, and one crop
(Apparently Robert died between 3 Sep. 1765 and 4 Oct. 1765.)
2. Will of DANIEL PEARL (the above Robert's son), 5 Sept 1774:
In the name of God Amen. I Daniel Pearl of Frederick Co. in Maryland
being weak of body but of sound mind and memory do make this my last
will & testament revoking and making void all other wills, promises,
or gifts heretofore by me made and not been delivered and in a manner
following.
FIRST AND FOREMOST I leave my two negroes Nan and Rachel and as much
of my other effects to be sold by my executors hereafter named as
will pay all my just debts.
ITEM I give my son Basil Pearl one cow and calf.
I LEAVE my daughter Ann Burgis five shillings to be paid by my executors
and all the remainder part of my estate after discharging all just debts -
and my will is that it be equally divided amongst my four children Joseph
Pearl, Robert Pearl, Jerimiah Pearl and Sary Pearl. I leave my son
William Pearl to be taken care of by my four children above named.
I LEAVE my boy called Kitt to be fully discharged and set free at the
age of twenty-one years.
I LEAVE my boy Jack that was given to me by the court and delivered by
his mother to my daughter Sary Pearl.
I APPOINT my son Joseph Pearl and my brother Basil Pearl my whole
and sole executors of this my last will and testament in witness whereof
I have hereunto asigned my hand and seal this 5th day of September 1774.
Signed and sealed in presence of us: (Signed)
Joseph Johnson
Joseph Hill
On the back of the aforegoing will was written:
On the 15th day of November 1774 came Joseph Hill one of the subscribing
witnesses to the aforegoing will and made oath on the holy Evangelist
of Almighty God that he did see the Testator Daniel Pearl sign and seal
the said will and heard him publish, pronounce and declare the same to
be his last will and testament and that at the time of his so doing he
was to the best of his apprehension of a sound and disposing mind and
memory and that he also saw Thomas Johnson the other subscribing witness
to the said will sign his name as a witness thereafter and that he sub-
scribed his name as a witness to the said will in presence of the said
Testator and in presence of the other witness.
Sworn before Bowles Dycom, Jr.
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3. A Samuel Perrill was born before 1750 & died before 24 Oct. 1816.
4. In Western Md. Newspaper Abstracts, 1799-1805, Vol. 2: On 5 Oct.
1894/Republican candidates for electors of President & Vice Pres. of the
U.S.: A long list of names mentioned, including Samuel Perrel.
5. In Md. State Archives. Administrative accts. of Samuel Perril, Sr.
1818 Frederick Co. The 1st & final acct. of Samuel Perril, Sr., late of
Frederick Co., deceased. Money paid to a Philip Perril. NOTE: Some
think that Samuel is either the father, or uncle of Philip.)
6.
+Please Note: In the following article, info from the 1790 First Census
of the US is given. The article does not mention that BOTH Basil & Samuel
Perril are listed as "free white."
+Also, in Skordas' Early Settlers of Maryland, there is this:
James Cranford - Transported 1678 - (Recorded) Liber (Book) 25,
Folio (Page) 515.
From: Pearl, Article Pearl/Pearl fam., 18th-19th C., Md., Periodical:
Western Maryland Genealogy, Vol. 13, Issue 1, Jan. 1997 & Issue 2,
Apr. 1997.
"Pearl Family of Maryland"
by George Ely Russell, C.G., F.A.S.G., F.N.G.S.
Robert(1) Pearl, progenitor of the Pearl family of Fredrick County, Maryland is first
of record when, by will dated in Prince George's County, 14 Jan. 1722/23, John Cranford
confirmed to "my friend Robert Pearle" a parcel of land from Patuxent River to Beaver
Dam Branch for 20 pounds of silver already paid.(1) Subsequently, on 14 July 1722/23,
Cranford gave his power of attorney, appointing "Robert Pearl", carpenter of Prince
George's County, alias "Mulatto Robin", to take possession of the land on Beaver Dam
Branch.(2) By deed dated 11 July 1724, Robert Pearle, alias Mulatto Robin, carpenter
of Prince George's County, paid 14.10.0 pounds of silver to Jonathan Prather, planter
of Prince George's County, for a 100-acre part of Archer's Pasture,(3), located in the
southeastern part of the county, near St. Paul's Parish Anglican Church at Baden
(present Brandywine Post Office).(4) By an indenture dated 5 Feb. 1728 Peregrine
Makanesse, blacksmith, and Robert Perle, carpenter, paid 5 shillings to Benjamin Loyd,
planter, and wife Teresa, for a 52-acre part of The Taylortown in the freshes on the west
side of the Patuxent River, also a 12-1/2-acre part of Taylorton,(5) also 2 negroes, 15
cattle, 2 horses, 1 mare, 16 hogs, household goods, dwelling house, and 1100 pounds of
tobacco due Loyd from Charles Gervis for rent of land.(6) By a bill of sale dated 23 Aug.
1729, Robert Pearle, alias Mulatto Robin (signed by mark RP), carpenter of Prince George's
County, sold negro man Harry and negro woman Lucy to Richard Lee of Prince George's County
for 8,411 pounds of tobacco and one shilling.(7)
In 1733 Robert Pearl was taxed in the Lower Precinct of Mattany Hundred(8) (set off in 1741
as Prince Frederick Hundred) in the southeastern part of Prince George's County. At the
request of Robert Pearle (signed by mark RP and henceforth no longer identified as "Mulatto
Robin"), on 30 August 1736 a supersedeas was recorded, by which he requested a stay of
proceedings, he, Thomas Swann, Jr. and John Johnson having previously acknowledged a
judgment unto Elianore Greenfield, administratrix of James Greenfield, deceased, for the
sum of 1915 pounds of tobacco, which sum was recovered by her against Pearle on 25 June
1736 in the Prince George's County Court.(9) By deed dated 26 November 1736, Robert Pearle,
(now styled) planter, sold to Henry Holland Hawkins of Charles County, gentleman for 10
pounds of silver and 650 lbs. of tobacco, a 44-acre part of Archer's Pasture near Cabbin
Branch. Robert's wife Anne released her dower right.(10) On 22 November 1737 Thomas Swann,
Sr., Thomas Swann, Jr., Edward Swann, and Robert Pearl confessed judgments to Gabriel Parker
for 2.10 pounds of silver and 4.15 pounds of silver and 1,122 and 98 lbs. of tobacco.(11)
On 27 June 1738 Eleanor Greenfield, widow, Robert Perle, and Thomas Swann, Jr., confessed
a judgment to Ann Greenfield of St. Mary's County for 489 lbs. of tobacco.(12) In Maryland
Chancery Court 6 December 1738 a Bill of Complaint was entered by Robert Pearle of Prince
George's County, planter, and others versus Mary Smith, executrix of Gunder Erickson, and
Peter Hoggins.(13) By a bill of sale dated 29 June 1741 Robert Pearl of Prince George's County,
planter, lent 25 pounds of silver to Frances Harbert of Prince George's County, planter, for
three horses, two colts, three cows, and various household furnishings, unless redeemed by
Harbert before the Feast of St. John the Baptist in 1743 by paying the 25 pounds of silver
to James Russell of Nottingham, merchant.(14)
Before 1749 Robert Pearl moved from Prince Frederick Hundred to the newly-formed Frederick
County. At Frederick County Court on 20 January 1748(49) Robert and (son) Thomas Pearl
recorded their respective cattle marks.(15) At the August 1749 Court the case of Robert
Perle against Samuel Duvall for trespass was agreed.(16) At the 13 July 1750 Court Robert
and Daniel Pearl and William Marshall confessed a judgment for 2.4.0 pounds of silver by
Lody/Lodowick Davis against Daniel Pearl on 17 March 1750.(17) At the Frederick County
November 1750 Court Robert Pearl of (Monocacy?) Manor Hundred was fined for swearing four
oaths. (18) By deed dated 7 October 1751 Robert Pearl (signed by mark RP) of Frederick County,
planter, sold a 124-acre part of Archer's Pasture on the west side of Patuxent River to the
Rev. John Eversfield, rector of St. Paul's Parish in Prince George's County, for 6,000 pounds
of tobacco.(19)
At the Frederick County November 1751 Court William Marshall and Robert Perle sued William
Snowden for 6800 pounds of tobacco. (20) At Frederick County Court 20 December 1751, Robert
Pearle, administrator, filed the inventory of the personal estate of Richard Clemen(t)s of
Frederick County. (21) At the Frederick County March 1754 Court Robert Perle and Dr. Richard
Cooke were approved as securities for Mrs. Elizabeth Donaldson's bond as guardian of John
Donaldson DeButts, a minor.(22) On 20 September 1756 Christopher Lowndes & Co. recorded
supersedeas against Henry Maroney, Robert Pearl, and Alexander Duvall for 8250 pounds of
tobacco recovered 20 August 1756.(23) By deed dated 8 November 1756 Robert Pearle of Frederick
County, planter, paid 40 pounds of silver to William and Elinor Williams of Virginia for
150-acre Flint's Grove on the west side of Seneca Creek,(24) (in present Montgomery County).
In the Frederick County Debt Books Robert Pearle was charged for the quit rent on a 100-acre
part of Smith's Pastures alias Flint's Grove (on Dry Seneca) in the period 1759-1766.(25) By
deed dated 2 December 176_ Robert Pearle (signed by mark RP) of Frederick County, planter,
sold 192-acre part of Flint's Grove to Charles Coats of Frederick County. The inventory of the
personal estate of Lawrence Owen, filed in Frederick County Court in March 1762, listed debts
owed to the estate by Basil, James, and Robert Pearl.(27) Robert Pearl's debt to James Dixon
of Frederick County was listed in the inventory of Dixon's estate dated 15 June 1767.(28)
The will of Robert Pearl (signed by mark) of Frederick County, "sick, was dated 3 September
1765. To son Daniel Pearl he bequeathed negroes Peter, Rachel, Nanny, and Harry. To son James
Pearl he bequeathed negroes Lucy, Pegg, Jermey, Jo, and Lids. To son Basil Pearl he bequeathed
negroes George, Bess, Liney, Bill, and Jeney. To son Daniel he also bequeathed a horse and my
own lodging bed and furniture. To Elizabeth Jarvis (no relationship specified) he bequeathed
corn, wheat and tobacco each year, plus one bed and furniture that is "in the chapel,(29) a cow,
and 200 pounds of pork for two years. He directed that the remainder of stock, crops in the
ground, and cider be divided among his three sons, they letting the (field) hands stay to finish
it. To son Basil was given the dwelling plantation (not named). To sons Charles and Thomas and
daughters Ann Marshall and Catherine Dean he bequeathed 5 shillings each. The remainder was
bequeathed to sons James and Basil appointed executors. Witnesses were William Botelor, Thomas
Duckett, John Johnson, and Thomas Johnson. The will was proved by the witnesses 4 October 1765. (30)
Children of Robert Pearl, according to his will (order uncertain):
+1 i. Daniel(2) Pearl, adult by 1733.
+2 ii. Thomas Pearl, adult by 1749.
+3 iii. James Pearl, adult by 1762.
+4 iv. Basil Pearl, adult by 1762.
+5 v. Charles Pearl, adult by 1757.
+6 vi. Ann Pearl, m. before 1765.
7 vii. Catherine Pearl, m. before 1765 (--?--) Dean; not further traced.
1. Daniel(2) Pearl, son of Robert Pearl, according to his father's 1765 will, was an adult by 1733
when he was taxed in Mattapany Hundred, Prince George's County. (31) At Frederick County Court on
28 February 1748(/49) he recorded his cattle mark.(32) At the 13 July 1750 Court he, Robert Pearl,
and William Marshall confessed a judgment for 2.4.0 pounds of silver recovered by Lody Davis against
Daniel Pearl on 17 March 1750.(33) According to a 13 July 1751 deed from Jacob Miller of Frederick
County, Miller had owed a debt to Daniel Pearl, for which Miller was in the sheriff's custody.(34)
In 1765 Daniel inherited four slaves and personal property by his father's will. His name was on a
list of persons owing money to the estate of James Dixon of Frederick County, according to the
inventory dated 15 June 1767.(35) In 1768, but not before or after, he was a tenant of Carrollton
Manor.(36) On 23 June 1768, as administrator, he filed the inventory of the personal estate of James
Colemore of Prince George's County.(37) By bill of sale dated 17 August 1768 Daniel Pearl (signed by
mark DP) sold to Thomas Hogg of Frederick County for 73 pounds of silver a negro boy Rob, about 13
years old, formerly the property of James Caulmore, late of Prince George's County, deceased. Daniel
acknowledged the sale on 17 November 1768.(38) On 11 September 1770 he filed a statement of the estate
of James Colemore: "Representatives unknown." The sureties on his administration bond were Ninian Beall
and Benoni Price.(39)
The will of Daniel Pearl of Frederick Town was dated 5 September 1774, "weak." He directed that
negroes Nann and Rachel be sold to pay his debts. To son Basil he bequeathed a cow and calf. To daughter
Ann Burges: 5 shillings. The residue to be divided among four children Joseph, Robert, Jeremiah, and
Sary Pearl. He directed that son William be taken care of by those four children. He directed that the
boy Kit be set free at age 21. To daughter Sary he bequeathed the boy Jack, given to him by the Court
and delivered by his mother. He appointed Joseph and brother Basil Pearl as executors. Witnesses were
Thomas Johnson and Joseph Hill. Hill proved the will on 15 November 1774.
Children of Daniel Pearl, according to his will (order uncertain)
8. i. Basil(3) Pearl. (See no. 4, Basil(2), below for possible record (Allegany County).
9. ii. Ann Pearl, m. before 1774 (-----) Burges.(41)
10. iii. Joseph Pearl, head of family, District #1, 1800.(42)
11. iv. Robert Pearl, appointed overseer of road from Monocacy Ferry Henry Ballinger's Branch,
March 1779(43)
12. v. Jeremiah Pearl, served 2 months, Capt. Wm. Duvall's Company Frederick Co., Militia; discharged
20 Oct 1777; served 6 months as substitute for Francis Cost; resident of Carroll's Manor, petitioned June
1778 to be cleared of charge of vagrancy, does not wish to be drafted as a vagabond; Governor rejected
petition for exemption of draft, 8 June 1778.(44) Single man, taxed, Montgomery County (looks like a date
got cut off.
13. vi. Sarah/"Sary" Pearl, single in 1774.
14. vii. William Pearl, at Frederick County Court 19 Nov. 1771 the grand jury presented him for
begetting a base borne child on the body of Susanna Burges, by information of Susanna Burges(45); probably
who md. Sarah Padgett by Frederick Co. license dated 14 June 1783.
2. Thomas(2) Pearl, son of Robert Pearl, recorded his cattle mark at Frederick County Court 20 January 1748
(49).(46) He was bequeathed 5 shillings by his father's 1765 will.(47) In June 1767 he owed money to the
estate of James Dixon of Frederick County.(48) As kinsmen, he and brother James Pearl approved the
inventory of the personal estate of James Colemore of Prince George's County, filed 23 June 1768.(49)
Never a land-owner in Frederick County, he was a tenant of Carrollton Manor, leasing 100 acres in 1771
and 200 acres in 1777.(50) On 18 April 1774 in Frederick County he and brother Basil Pearl, as kinsmen,
approved the inventory of the personal estate of their brother James Pearl.(51) By bill of sale dated
3 August 1789 Thomas Paril/Perrill (signed by mark T) of Frederick County, planter, sold to George
Stockman of Frederick County, for 2.19.0 pounds of silver, negro girl Bealler, 9 years old.(52) In 1790
Thomas Perrill was head of family in Frederick County, his household consisting of two men, one boy age
under 16, and two females, and located next door to Moses Callaman.(53)
3. James(3) Pearl, son of Robert Pearl, was appointed co-executor of his father's will in 1765, by which
he inherited negroes Lucy, Pegg, Jermey, Jo, and Lids, and a half-share of the residue.(54) He was listed
in Frederick County in March 1762 as owing money to the estate of Lawrence Owen,(55) and in June 1767 as
owing money to the estate of James Dixon.(56) Apparently not a land-owner, he was a tenant leasing 100
acres in Carrollton Manor in the period 1765-1771.(57) As kinsmen, he and brother Thomas Pearl approved
the inventory of the personal estate of James Colemore, late of Prince George's County, deceased, filed
23 June 1768 by their brother Daniel, administrator.(58) James died in Frederick County shortly before 18
April 1774, on which date his personal estate was inventoried by Arthur Nelson and Alexander Magruder,
valued at 582.11.3 pounds of silver, and approved by kinsmen Basil and Thomas Pearl. The inventory was
filed 12 May 1774 by Elizabeth Pearl, administratrix, presumably his widow. She filed her final account
of administration on 1 December 1774.(60) The sureties on her administration bond were William Marshall
and Basil Pearle. The estate valued at 711.13.9 pounds of silver were to be distributed one-third to the
widow, and the balance to be divided among the three (unnamed) children equally.(61)
4. Basil(2) Pearl, son of Robert Pearl, was appointed co-executor of his father's will in 1765, by which
he inherited the residence plantation (unnamed), negroes George, Bess, Liney, Bill, and Jeney, and a
half-share of the residue.(62) (It is possible that he inherited an unrecorded lease for an un-named
lot in Carroll's Manor, for which the early rent rolls are non-extant.) In March 1762 he owed money to
the estate of Lawrence Owen of Frederick County.(63) In June 1767 he owed money to the estate of James
Dixon of Frederick County.(64) Apparently not a land-owner, he was a tenant leasing 150 acres in Carrollton
Manor in the period 1768-1771. As kinsmen, he and brother Thomas Pearl approved the inventory of the
personal estate of their brother James Pearl of Frederick County 18 April 1774.(66) By the 1774 will of
his brother Daniel Pearl of Frederick-Town Basil was appointed co-executor.(67)
He may be the Basil Perril who was listed as head of household in Frederick County in 1790, his family
composed of one man (himself), three boys age under 16, and five females, living near William Marshall
and Samuel Perril.(68) In the 1800 Census of Frederick County, Basil Purill was head of household in
District #1, age 45+, with a boy and two girls age 10-16, and one boy age under 10.
A younger Basil Pearl/Perill, born after 1755, (perhaps no. 8 above), settled in Washington (now Allegany)
County before 24 November 1781, on which date he witnessed the will of James Crabtree, Sr., of Old Town
Creek.(69) On 1 December 1790 42-acre Hobson's Choice was surveyed for Basil Perill; he transferred it
23 April 1807 to Daniel Fetter of Skipton District, Allegany County.(70) By deed dated 2 April 1791
Basil Pearl of Washington County purchased from Peter Devenbach of Washington County part of Walnut
Level lying on Old Town Creek below Dry Branch (present Allegany County).(71) In 1800 Bazil Perril,
Senior, age 26-45, was head of family in Fifteen Mile Creek, Allegany County, with one woman age 45+
and one girl age under 10.(72)
5. Charles(2) Pearl, son of Robert Pearl, was bequeathed 5 shillings by his father's 1765 will.(73)
At Frederick County Court on 26 February 1757 Charles Pearl recorded his cattle mark.(74) Of Prince
George's County, by deed dated 21 December 1763, Charles Pearl, carpenter, paid 120 pounds of silver
to George Frasier Hawkins, gent., of Prince George's County, for 120-acre Hawkins Tenement on north
fork of Little Creek which falls into Potomack River between Kittocktin Creek and the Blue Ridge in
Frederick County,(75) (in present Petersville District). In the Frederick County Debt Books he was
charged for this tract in the period 1766-1773.(76) In June 1767 he owed money to the estate of James
Dixon of Frederick County.(77) In 1777 he took the Oath of Fidelity in Frederick County.
Charles moved to Washington (now Allegany) County before 2 August 1779, on which date Charles Perill
of Washington County paid 900 pounds of silver to Richard Maurice of Monongalia County, Virginia, for
100 acre Morris's Choice and adjoining 80-acre Morris's Luck on Town Creek about six miles from the
mouth thereof.(78) By deed dated 25 November 1786, Charles Pearle (signed by mark) of Washington
County, carpenter, with wife Elizabeth, sold the 120 acre Hawkins Tenement in Frederick County to
Michael Garver of Frederick County, farmer, for 270 pounds of silver.(79) On 10 December 1789 a
certificate of resurvey was issued to Charles Per(r)il for 177-1/2-acre Perrill's Delight on Town
Creek in (present Allegany County comprised of: 90-1/2-acre Morris's Choice, 80-acre Morris's Luck
and 8 acres of contiguous vacant land. The patent for this tract was granted to Charles Perrill on
4 March 1793.(80) He lived in Skipton District, Washington (present Allegany) county, comprised of:
90-1/2-acre Morris's Choice, 80-acre Morris's Luck and 8 acres of contiguous vacant land. The patent
for this tract was granted to Charles Perrill on 4 March 1793.(80) He lived in Skipton District,
Washington (present Allegany) county, for which the 1790 Federal census is not extant. On 4 May 1793
a Certificate of Survey was issued to Charles Perrill of Allegany County for 731-acres Locust Ridge
adjoining Warrior Mountain, the path from Griffen Johnson's to Charles Twigg's, School House Run,
and Perrill's Delight.(81)
Charles Perrill died intestate in Allegany County before 1809. In the period 1809-1830 his son
Charles Perrill of Allegany County purchased from each of his eight siblings their undivided
one-ninth rights/shares in their father's 177-1/2-acre Perrill's Delight in Allegany County.(82)
Children of Charles and Elizabeth Perrill, according to the above deed (order uncertain):
15. i. James(3) Purl, m. before 1809, Mary (----); resided Fairfield Co., Ohio
1809-1828.
16. ii. Catherine Purl, m. before 1809, Charles McAtee; resided Fairfield Co.,
Ohio, 1809.
17. iii. Thomas Purl, resided Fairfield Co., Ohio, 1809; d.s.p. before Nov. 1810.
18. iv. John Perrel, m. before 1809, Hannah (----); resided Fairfield Co., Ohio, 1809
19. v. Margaret Ann Purl, resided Fairfield Co., Ohio, 1810
20. vi. Charles Purl; resided Allegany Co. 1810-on; d. before 1839, leaving 4
children: Charles, James, Thomas, and Elizabeth.
21. vii. Seth Perrill, m. before 1830, Susan (----); resided Ohio County, (W.) Va.,
1830.
22. viii. Eleanor Perrill, m. by Allegany Co. license dated 23 Apr. 1795, Alexander
Grimes(83); resided Warren Twp., Jefferson Co., Ohio, 1830.
23. ix. Elizabeth Perrill, resided Warren Twp., Jefferson Co., Ohio, 1830.
6. Ann(2) Pearl, daughter of Robert Pearl of Frederick County, as "Ann Marshall," was
bequeathed 5 shillings by her father's 1765 will.(84). She was probably the wife of William
Marshall, a tenant of Carrollton Manor. At Prince George's County Court June 1748 William
Marshall and Elias Delashmutt of Monocacy paid John Nelson's 5 pounds of silver debt to Thomas
Cresap for one year's rent of a ferry.(85) At Frederick County Court 13 July 1750 William
Marshall and Robert and Daniel Pearl confessed judgment for 2.4.0 pounds of silver recovered
by Lody Davis against Daniel Pearl on 17 March 1750.(86) At the November 1750 Court William
Marshall was appointed overseer of the road from Monocacy Ferry to Henry Ballinger's Branch.
At the June 1751 Court he was ordered to keep in repair all roads that lie between Ballinger's
Branch and Potomac River, replacing Elias Delashmutt as overseer. On the docket at the November
1751 Court was the suit of William Marshall and Robert Perle against William Snowden, who owed
them 6800 pounds of tobacco. At the November 1754 Court he was reappointed road overseer from
Monocacy Ferry to Ballinger's Branch and from the main road which leads to the Mouth of Monocacy
and to Powell's Ford.(87) In the 14 April 1757 issue of the Maryland Gazette he advertised that
he had a stray horse at his plantation on Monocacy in Frederick County. During the French and
Indian War he served for 30 days (circa August) 1757 as a Corporal in Captain Elias Delashmutt's
Frederick County Militia Company.(88) In the newspaper of 28 February 1760 he again advertised
having a stray mare at his plantation near the Mouth of Monocacy. He was a tenant of Carrolton
Manor in the period 1765-1777, leasing a 150-acre lot, and first styled "Senior in 1777.(89)
The will of William Marshall of Frederick County was dated 12 March 1778 "very sick." To daughter
Grace he bequeathed the negro Nell. To son Alexander he bequeathed 10 pounds of silver. To son
George he bequeathed 12 pounds of silver at age 21. To daughter Ann Toliver he bequeathed 3
pounds of silver. To son William he devised his dwelling plantation (possibly named Good Will),
and required William to take his brother George and sister Grace home with him, take care of
them, and give them sufficient education for country business. The residue of his estate was to
be divided among his children and one grandchild: James, William, Alexander, George, Priscilla
Graves, Margaret Wilson, Grace Marshall, and Ann Toliver. Sons James and William were appointed
executors. He signed by mark. The witnesses were Arthur Nelson, Jeremiah Stoakes, and Benjamin
Grant. Stoakes and Grant proved the will on 24 June 1778.(90)
Children of William Marshall, all presumably by his wife Ann Pearl (order uncertain):
24. i. James(3) Marshall
25 ii. William Marshall, Jr., adult by 1777 when leased 100 acres at Carrollton Manor(91);
resided Frederick County 1790.(92)
26. iii. Alexander Marshall, m. Susannah Pearl of Frederick Co. license dated 30 Dec. 1779;
resided Frederick County 1790.(93)
27. iv. George Marshall, minor in 1778.
28. v. Priscilla Marshall, m. William Graves (he d. testate 1783).(94)
29. vi. Margaret Marshall, m. Frederick Evangelical-Lutheran Church 30 Nov. 1775, William Wilson.
30. vii. Ann Marshall, m. Frederick Evangelical-Lutheran Church 26 Jan. 1776, William Toliver.
31. viii. Grace Marshall, m. by Frederick Co. license dated 3 April 1790, John Murphey
UNPLACED PEARLS
32. Samuel(3) Pearl/Perril, Sr., surely a grandson of Robert(1) Pearl, was an adult by 1 February 1771,
when Samuel Perle reported stray livestock in Frederick County.(95) He married first, certainly before
1770, (---?---). In 1790 Samuel Perril was head of family in Frederick County, living near Basil Perril,
his family composed of two men, five boys, three females, and two slaves.(96) At Frederick Town Reformed
Church on 16 April 1799, Samuel Pearl and (his son?) Alexander Pearl witnessed the marriage of James
Pearl and Priscilla Adkins.(97) By deed dated 2 May 1799 Samuel Perrill of Frederick County paid 5
shillings to John Wilson, Jr. of Montgomery County for 30-acre part of lot #2, part of New Bremen on
main road from Frederick Town to Noland's Ferry, adjoining Judburgh Forrest in present Greenfield Mills
locale).(98) By bill of sale dated 26 June 1799 Samuel Perrell of Frederick County paid 10.2.6 pounds
of silver and 500 lbs. of tobacco to John Eaton of Frederick County for a cow, heifer, bed, turners and
carpenter tools, and all household furniture in Eaton's possession, Perrell being security for Eaton on
two notes to Mary Luckett and Thomas Hill.(99)
Samuel was head of family in District #1, Frederick County, in 1800, his household composed of himself and
a woman aged 45+, man aged 16-25, boy and girl aged 10-16 aged under 10, and four slaves. By deed dated
30 September 1802, Samuel Perrell (signed by mark) for 16.10.1 pounds of silver sold to John Compton of
Frederick County a 3-acre part of the first part of New Bremen.(100) His wife may have been dead at that
time, there being no dower release on the deed. S. Pearl was head of family in Frederick in 1810, living
near P. Pearl.(101)
By Frederick County marriage license dated 23 July 1811 Samuel Perrell married Mary Atkins. By deed dated
1 August 1812, Samuel Perrell, Senior (signed by mark) for $140 sold to Nicholas Harmon of Frederick
County a 14-acre part of lot #2, part of the first part of New Bremen (which he had purchased from John
Wilson, Jr.), excepting 5 acres in the west end sold to Sandy Downy and Lacy Adkins. No dower release.(102)
By deed dated 14 December 1812, Samuel Pearl paid $2400 to William and Charlotte Herbert of Frederick
County for two adjoining tracts: 93-acre Black Acre and 51-1/2-acre Gants Garden.(103)
Samuel Perrill, Sr., died shortly before 24 October 1816, on which day his relict Mary Perrill (signed by
mark) released her dower rights, stating that Samuel died seized of two pieces called Black Acre and Gants
Garden, 144-1/2 acres, and a considerable personal estate, and that she released all her rights to his
sons and heirs: Samuel, John, Thomas, and Philip Perrill, on condition that they return to her all the
personal estate of which she was possessed at the time she married Samuel Perrill, or the value thereof
in current money, and also $75.(104) On 28 October 181_ (son) Samuel Perrill entered his bond as administrator
of Samuel Perrill, Sr.(105) The inventory of personal estate was filed 6 November 1816, and the account
of sale was filed 25 November 1816.(106) The first and final administration account, naming son Alexander
Perrill, was filed 2 October 1818.(107)
According to the 1816 dower release and subsequent land records Samuel Perrill had the following children:
35. i. Alexander(4) Perrill, m. Frederick 1st German Evangelical Reformed Church, 29 May 1792 Grace Beaumont;
resided District #1 in 1800; removed to Ohio. DAR Magazine, Vol. 85, has Alexander married 27 May 1791.
Probably 1st date is more correct.
36. ii. Samuel Perril
37. iii. John Perrill
38. iv. Thomas Perrill, b. c1783; d. 6 Aug. 1860, age 77; bur. Frederick Catholic Cemetery; m. Henrietta
(--?---) 1792-1870); res. Frederick Town 1850, blind.
39. v. Philip Perrill, b. c1788; m. by Frederick Co. license dtd. 14 Nov. 1819 Mary Ann Kennedy; res.
Buckeystown District 1850, farmer, owned 125 acres.
40. vi. Elizabeth Perrill, m. Frederick Reformed Church 25 Dec 1792 Leonard Stewart, res. District #1 in 1800.
41. vii. (probably two more daughters), later deed (My Note: A daughter and a son: Clarissa wife of John
Warner and James, deceased by 1816).
42. Thomas(3) Perrill, possibly a younger man than Thomas(2) Pearl (#2 above), married at Frederick Reformed
Church 6 March 1791 Zilpha Calliman; witnesses were Moses Calliman and David Davis.(111) In Frederick County on
2 February 1809 Thomas (signed by mark) bound his son John to Henry Rhodes, blacksmith, for two years. On 7 March
1814 he bound his son George, age 19 years and 8 months, to Godfrey Bryer, shoemaker, to 10 July 1815.(112)
Children of Thomas and Zilpha Calliman) Pearl:
43. i. John Perril, b. c1890, apprenticed 1809.
44. ii. George Washington Pearl, b. c10 July 1794; apprenticed 1814; d. Muskingum Co., Ohio, c1 March 1847.
45. iii. Jacob Pearl, b. c1810; m. (1) by Frederick Co. license dtd. 11 Jan. 1842 Mary Ann E. Lare;
m. (2) 1879 Loretta Harshamn.
NOTES:
1. Prince George's County Land Records, 1720-1726, p. 429. Maryland Provincial Wills, 18:361 John Cranford
was a son of James Cranford of Calvert County, member of the Maryland Assembly, killed by lightening in 1699.
Included in the list of James' eleven servants was "one negro man called Robin" valued at 26 pounds of silver
(Maryland Inventories, 19-1/2(B:31-35).
2. Prince George's County Land Records, 1720-1726, p. 443.
3. Ibid., p. 568.
4. Louise J. Hienton, Prince George's Heritage (Baltimore; Maryland Historical Society, 1972), large folded
map showing land tracts as of 1696, coordinates W-18.
5. Ibid., map coordinates X-19, east of Archer's Pasture.
6. Prince George's County Land Records, M:460.
7. Ibid., M#1 (1726-1730); 464.
8. Document #267, The Black Books, p. 39, at Maryland State Archives (MSA).
9. Prince George's County Land Records, T#1 (1733-1739); 407.
(Continued on Daniel Pearl, son of Robert)
10. Prince George's County Land Records, T#1:423. Witnesses were Jno. Hepburn and Jno. Fraser. Hawkins' will,
dated in Charles County 14 Sep. 1746, referred to this purchase. Maryland Provincial Wills, 28:73.
11. The Swanns filed at Frederick County Court on 28 Nov. 1737 their supersedeas writs requesting a stay in
the execution of the judgments against them. Frederick County Land Records, T#1:548.
12. At Court on 1 July 1738 Eleanor Greenfield requested a supersedeas writ to stay the execution of this
judgment. Prince George's County Land Records, T#1:610.
13. Chancery Court Records, at MSA, JK#4:89.
14. Prince George's County Land Records, Y#1 (1739-1743); 340-341.
15. Frederick County Land Records, B:1.
16. Frederick County Judgment Records, 1748-1750, p. 202, at MSA.
17. Frederick County Land Records, B:215.
18. Ibid., Nov. 1750 Court, in Millard M. Rice, This Was the Life, p. 60.
19. Prince George's County Land Records, PP (1749-1752): 141-142. No wife's dower release.
20. Rice, op. cit., p. 89.
21. Maryland Inventories, 48:336
22. Rice, op. cit., p. 134.
23. Frederick County Land Records, F#1 (1756-1761): 60.
24. Frederick County Land Records, F:93-95.
25. Frederick County Debt Books, at MSA.
26. Frederick County Land Records, G:318. No wife's dower release.
27. Maryland Inventories, 77:337-357.
28. Ibid., 94:217-252.
29. The existence of a HOME CHAPEL suggests the probability that Robert Pearl was a Roman Catholic.
30. Frederick County Wills, A#1:257. There is no record of an inventory of his personal estate.
31. Document #276, The Black Books, at MSA, p. 44.
32. Frederick County Land Records, B:6.
33. Frederick County Land Records, B:215.
34. Frederick County Land Records, B:457-458.
35. Maryland Inventories, 94:217-252.
36. Carrollton Manor Rent Roll, Aug. 1768, Carroll Papers, Md. Historical Society, MS#216, box 2, item 336.
37. Maryland Inventories, 96:336.
38. Frederick County Land Records, L:576.
39. Prince George's County Administration Accounts, JD#1:88. Though the Pearl brothers, as kinsman, approved
the inventory of Colemore's personal estate, they were not heirs-at-law. In 1770 Daniel did not know of any
heirs to Colemore's estate.
40. Frederick County Wills, A#1:520-521,
41. Possibly married James Burgess of King George's (Piscataway at Broad Creek) Parish, Prince George's
County, where they had children recorded 1755 and 1757 (Parish Register) administratrix of his estate,
Ann Burgess filed inventory 28 Nov. 1760. (Md. inventories, 70:42. 1800 census, p. 807, line 7.
43. Frederick County Court Orders, in Scharf, History of Western Maryland, p. 437.
44. Maryland State Papers, at MSA, nos. 5698, 7173, 7196.
45. Frederick County Court Minutes, 1769-1773, at MSA, p. 213.
46. Frederick County Land Records, B#1:1.
47. Frederick County Wills, A#1:257.
48. Maryland Inventories, 94:217-252.
49. Maryland Inventories, 96:336.
50. Carrollton Manor Rent Rolls, op. cit.
51. Maryland Inventories, 118:142.
52. Frederick County Land Records, WR#8:581.
53. Maryland 1790 Census, p. 69.
54. Frederick County Wills, A#1:257.
55. Maryland Inventories, 77:337-357.
56. Maryland Inventories, 94:217-252.
57. Carrollton Manor Rent Rolls, op. cit.
58. Maryland Inventories, 96:336.
59. Maryland Inventories, 118:142.
60. Frederick County Administration Accounts, B#2:339, B#7:341.
61. Maryland Balance Books, 6:344.
62. Frederick County Wills, A#1:257.
63. Maryland Inventories, 77:337-357.
64. Maryland Inventories, 94:217-252.
65. Carroll's Manor Rent Rolls.
66. Maryland Inventories, 118:142.
67. Frederick County Wills, A#1:520-521.
68. Heads of Families, Maryland, 1790 (Govt. Printing Office), p. 70.
69. Washington County Wills, A:90-91.
70. Maryland Certificates of Survey, IC#R:577-578.
71. Allegany County Equity Papers, at MSA, 50, 361-1/24. Witnessed by George Pearl.
72. Allegany County 1800 Census, p. 1, line 44.
73. Frederick County Wills, A#1:257.
74. Frederick County Land Records, F#1(1756-1761):179.
75. Ibid., J:152-154.
76. Frederick County Debt Books, at MSA.
77. Maryland Inventories, 94:217-252.
78. Washington County Land Records, B:120.
79. Frederick County Land Records, WR#7:122-123.
80. Maryland Certificates of Survey, IC#1:287; Patents, IC#H(1792-1795):244-245.
81. Certificate of Survey, Allegany County, No. 466, at MSA. This might pertain to his son Charles, Junior.
82. Allegany County Land Records, E(1806-1810):555-557; F(1810-1813):180; IJ(1815-1818):537-538;
O(1827-1829):271-272; P(1829-1832):209-210,287-288.
83. Allegany County Marriage Licenses.
84. Frederick County Wills, A#1:257.
85. Tracey & Dem, Pioneers of Old Monocacy, p. 62.
86. Frederick County Land Records, B:215.
87. Millard M. Rice, This Was the Life, pp. 62, 74, 89.
88. Muster roll, in WMG 10:167.
89. Carrollton Manor Rent Rolls, at Maryland Historical Society, MS nos. 216 and 219.
90. Fredrick County Wills, GM#1:64-66.
91. Carrollton Manor Rent Rolls, op. cit.
92. Census, p. 70. Living near brother in-law Basil Perril.
93. Census, p. 71.
94. Frederick County Wills, GM#1:303-304.
95. F. Edward Wright, Early Lists of Frederick Countians, 1765-1775, p. 6.
96. 1790 census, p. 70.
97. Hinke transcript, p. 307.
98. Frederick County Land Records, WR#19:207-208.
99. Ibid., WR#18:329-330.
100.Ibid., WR#23:401.
101. 1810 census, p. 370.
102. Frederick County Land Records, WR#43:157-159.
103. Ibid., WR#44:365-367.
104. Ibid., JS#3:625-626.
105. Frederick County Estate Docket, HS#1:123.
106. Ibid., HS#2:16, 13.
107. Ibid., HS#3:339.
108. Weiser, Marriages and Burials..., p. 39.
109. Allegany County Equity Papers, at MSA, 50:361-1/24.
110. Certificate of Survey, MSA, IC#N:581-582.
111. Hinke transcription, Records..., p. 101.
112. Frederick County Indentures, RB#2:62, 445-446.
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Charles Pearl, Frederick Co., MD, swore allegiance to state on 5 Feb 1777.
Info from St. John's the Evangelist Rom. Cath. Church in Frederick, Md.
Baptisms
Perill, Ruther, Oct. 1819
Perill, Mary Helena, 6 May 1822
Purtell, Margaret, 8 Apr. 1832
November 1742
p.191 Present Eliz. Graves else Pearl for intermarrying with a
Mullatto Daniel Pearl by information of Thomas Wilson & Edward
Mobberly Present Wm Marshall for Intermarrying with a Mullatto
Woman by information of Thos. Brooke (This must be the same as the
info on: http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Palmer-Rustin.htm)
Prince George County Records
(http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/princeg.htm)
Lord Proprietary vs William Marshall For Intermarrying with a
Mullatto Woman Removal by Habeus Corpus ... William Marshall
planter with a certain Anne Pearle a Mulatto Woman did intermarry
... Henry Darnall prays the advice of the court in the Premises &
that the sd William Marshall for the Intermarriage afsd. Become a
Servant for Seven Years to be disposed of as the Court Shall think
fit ... William Marshall by William Cumming his Attorney Produces
to the Court here the following Writ of Habeus Corpus .. Whereas
William Marshall .. is detained in the Prison ... we being willing
for Divers Causes that the Pleas aforesaid ... be heard and
Determined before the Justices of the Provincial Court at
Annapolis on the Third Tuesday in October next Witness Levin
Gale Esq. Chief Justice of our said Court 23 May 1743 Issued
August 29 1743 Lord Proprietary vs Katherine Perle Bastardy
Presentment Quashed
p.332, Present Robert Perle for neglect of duty as overseer
of the High Way in the Lower Pert of Menococy Hundred by info
of Arthur Nelson Jr.
p.8 Lord Proprietary vs. Mary Nicholls Mulatto Bastardy by
confession ... serve seven years ... sell unto Johanna Ellson
Mary Nicholl's Male Mulatto child Felix aged one year and five
months serve till 31 ... expiration of her time March 1766
Peregrine Mackanesse and Robert Perle by their petition humbly
set forth to the Justices of the Court here that they at the
Special Instance and request of Benjamin Lloyd became Joyntly
bound unto his Lordship the Lord Proprietary in the sum of two
hundred pounds Sterling with condition that the said Benjamin
Lloyd should well and truly administer all and singular the
goods chattles rights and credits which were of Thomas Lloyd
his deceased father and a true and perfect inventory of all and
singular the goods chattles and credits of the said deceased
appraised in money and the same so made to exhibit or cause
to be exhibited into the office for probat of wills and granting
adminst. which said Benjamin caused the afsd. deceds. estate
to be appraised and that the inventory thereof was never returned
to make up with the commissary which the said Benjamin so to do
was often desired by the said Mackanesse and Perle which he would
not consent to by reason whereof the said Mackenesse and Perle
issued out their writ directed to the sheriff of Prince George's
County to take the said Benjamin into his custody which the sheriff
according did and to save the said Mackaness and Perle harmless in
being bound with him, by his certain deed of mortgage made over
unto the said Peregrine Mackanesse and Robert Perle two pieces
or parcels of land, two Negroes, and one white lad fifteen head of
cattle, two horses, three mares, sixteen head of hogs besides
household goods corn and tobacco on the plantation which deed
was duely executed and acknowledged on the fifth of February Anno
Domini 1728 by the said Benjamin and his wife before Philip Lee
Esquire one of his Lordships Justices of the provincial Court of
Maryland upon the execution and delivery of which deed of mortgage
the said Benjamin was at the request of the said Makanesse and Perle
discharged out of custody of the sheriff after which the said
Mackanesse and Perle took the goods into possession until the said
Benjamin should make up with the Commissary or otherwise save harmless
and indemnify the petitioners which they cannot by any means do
being at great expense and trouble in the affair and humbly pray the
same Justices that as they have done their true indeavours to get him
the said Benjamin to make up with the Commissary and being at some
charge about it as they before alledged he refuses to do so and still
continues to put them to much trouble that they the petitioners may
have the care of the children and take the estate for their use into
their possession or that they may be discharged therefrom Intirely
and further desire the Justices here to consider their case and grant
them some redress for the great trouble and expense they have been
at and the loss of their time in seeking for relief as to the Justices
her out of their great goodness shall seem meet ... rejected.
Lord Proprietary vs. Mary Wedge }Malatto Bastardy Convict by Confession
... cannot gainsay but that she is guilty ... be a servant for seven
years ... child be a servant to thirty one ... sold unto Robert Perle
for 2 pounds one shilling current money
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"Is there a town in the Frederick Co. area named Court House?".
The town which is now Rockville has been previously called by
other names. It was originally called "Hungerford's Tavern" for a local
Inn. In 1776 when the county was formed, it was referred to as
Montgomery Court House. This name lingered on for some time even after
it was surveyed into town lots and named Williamsburg. About 1803 it
became Rockville." That info was from the Montgomery Co. Historical
Society. (NOTE: Lawrence Pearl's (b. 1792/3) son William's death cert.
says that Lawrence was born in "Court House".
"Other Free" Heads of Household in the 1800 Maryland Census
by Family Name
Perill, Jacob 3 "other free" p.802 Frederick County
Perrel, Bazel Senr. 8 Allegany p.1
Perril, Bazel Junr. 3 Allegany p.3
Perrill, Charles 5/5 Allegany p.5
Perrill, Mary 6 Allegany p.7
Western MD Newspaper Abstracts 1799--1805
From Frederick Bartges' Republican Gazette Oct. 5, 1804
Among the many Republican candidates for electors of President
and Vice-Pres. is Samuel Perrel
Distribution of Estate Accounts--Washington Co., MD 1806-1816
Estate of Susannah Robey, April 4, 1815, one of the heirs was Deborah Parroll
St. John's Catholic Church in Frederick is situated on East 2nd St.,
just a few minutes walk from the center of the city in a quiet, peaceful
residential section. The history of this church & its congregation
dates back to about 1750, & from all records avilable, "is the history
of Catholicism in the county".
About that time (1750) Daniel Carroll, the father of Charles Carroll of
Carrollton, fostered the Catholic settlement of Frederick Co. by the
purchase of some 12,000 acres of land in the Frederick Valley, at a time
when the penal laws against Catholics were in full force in Md.
province.
From that time on in order to escape the fullest rigors of the laws
against them, Catholics of English descent came to St. Joseph's Manor &
Frederick-Town. Following them, came large numbers direct from England,
Germany & Ireland, though the immigration laws at the time strictly
forbade their entry into Md. For sometime after their settlement in
Fred. Co. those of the Catholic faith were attended by priests of the
Society of Jesus, who came from St. Thomas, near Port Tobacco, where the
then only clergy of the province was located. After the establishment
of a mission at Conewago (now Hanoger, a.), the Fathers came to
Frederick Town to minister to the German members of that faith. In
1756, a small school for boys was opened on Market St. in
Frederick-Town, 7 years before the erection of a church, & in this room
Mass was celebrated by the visiting clergy. By 1763, the Catholic
population had increased to such an extent that the necessity of
building a church & home for a resident pastor was realized. The first
of these - St. John's was erected in Frederick-Town by Fr. John
Williams, an English Jesuit. T.J.C. Williams says: "When possible the
Catholics of the Md. province evaded the penal laws, but not to the
extent of erecting churches. They had schools in a few places, though
forbidden by the laws to have them, but their churches or chapels were a
room in, or a section of a dwelling house. What Fr. Williams had buklt,
was a two story brick bldg. with a frontage of 50'. The first floor
consisting of three rooms & a passage, was the priests' residence. The
second floor was the church or chapel, devoted solely to religious
purposes. The law did permit Mass to be celebrated in a dwelling
situated on land belonging to a private individual, so, as has been
stated, the lot on which the first Catholic Church edifice in Frederick
was built was owned by John Cary. Prior to the Revolution, hostilities
toward Catholicism had abated considerably among the non-catholics of
Md., and it was this, no doubt, that encouraged Mr. Cary in 1765 to hand
over the property to the church. The deed (copying stopped here.)
Distribution of Estate Accts.--Washington Co., Md., 1806-1816
Estate of Susannah Robey, 4 apr. 1815, one of the heirs was Deborah
Parroll.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY --Jeremiah Pearl in the 1783 tax records as a single
male & a Robert Pearl served in the War of 1812 in Montomery Co.
PEARLS IN BALTIMORE CO? A William Pearle died about 1692 there.
His wife was Ann married by Nov 1692 to Stephen Bently. William's
son, William, b. Jul 1677 (d. 10 Jun 1715) at age 15 years, chose
as guardian John Boyer. Daughter Mary was indentured to William
Wilkinson at the same time. (Baltimore County Families by Robert Barnes)
From the personal files of William Wilkinson held by the Md. Historical
Society A William Pearl was taxed 1700, 1702, 1703 Northside of the
Patapsco: 1705,1706 Northside of Back River; 1704 Southside of Back
River. Also on the southside of Back River a Richard Pearle was on
Baltimore Co. 1692 tax list on the property of George Ashman who was
responsible for his taxes. (Balto. Co. Court Proceeding Lib F1 (1692-1693)
A Thomas Pearl posted bond for Ralph Gearth in Balto. Co 22 Sept 1679.
(No source).
The 1700 Birth date for Robert Pearl mentioned is probably a
guess. In Frederick Co. Land Record Lib L:518-520 Daniel Pearl gave a
land deposition 1 Apr1768. He gave his age as 57 years and also
mentioned his father Robert Pearl.
From "Land Records of Prince Georges Co. 1726-1730" Robert Pearle
entered bond on 14th of May last -- for 35 lbs. Whereas I am now going
to reside in London & cannot take Charles Pembrook with me, from his
wife & children, & as he has faithfully & honostly served me, I have
given him his freedom -- June 9, 1729. Signed by these witnesses:
Henry Darnall, Henry Darnall, Jr., Charles Neale.
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1810 Census, Frederick County, MD:
S. Pearl - #5 in column at the end, "all other free persons...".
P. Pearl - The name following S. Pearl. 4 wm <10; 1 wm 26-45;
1 wf <10; 1 wf 16-26.
P. Pearl - Same as P. Pearl above.
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1830 Census, Frederick Co., MD
White: Elenor Perrill, white with some free-colored; Thomas Perrel,
white; Samuel Perrel, white; Thomas Perril, free-colored; Thomas
Pearl, white with male & female slaves.
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1840 Census, Frederick Co., MD
Geo W. Pearl, free-colored; Mrs. Pearl, 1 white female with 6 free-colored;
Ignatius Pearl, free-colored; Thomas Perril, free-colored;
Philip Pearl, 1 white female with free-colored.
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Census, Frederick Co., MD
Geo. Jos. (or Jas.), 25, 5th Election Dist, white. Family listed: wife
Susanna, 24; Roselle, 3-f; John, 21; Susanna Crom, 70, b. PA.
Philip Perrill, 61, farmer, white, #234 Buckeye.
James Perrill, 53, Cooper, b. MD - family all listed as mulatto, #208 Buckeye.
Mary E. Perrill, 27, mulatto, living with Zimmerman family, #57 Buckeye.
Thomas Perrill, 48, mulatto - family all listed as mulatto, #161 Buckeye.
Thomas Perril, 66, #1074 (Don't have district), white
Jacob Perl, 39, (All are mulatto); Mary A. E., 29; Mary Perl, 90; with
Thomas H., 7; Oliver, 4; George F., 2. #166, Jefferson District.
George James Pearle, page # 187 Frederick, white.
Thomas Pearle, Frederick, page # 119, white.
William Pearl, 30 - with family, #1 Frederick, all white.
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From: jstar@gte.net (Shirley Starks)
I think William, son of William & Ann (Pearl) Marshall is the father of my
Elizabeth who married John Rust of "old" Frederick Co., VA.
WILL of William Marshall
QUOTE
"In the name of God amen William Marshall of Frederick County of State of
Maryland being sick and weak of Body but of Sound mind and memory do make
this my Last Will and Testament revoking and making void all other Wills
heretofore made by me. (Its?) in manner following Viz,
Item I give and bequeath to my daughter Grace, one negro child named Nell to
her and her Heirs and assigns forever.
Item I give & bequeath to my son Alexander Marshall ten pounds currant Money
to be paid by my Executors hereafter named.
(?Likewise) leave to my son George Marshell Twelve Pounds current Money to
be paid in like manner when he arrives to the age of Twenty one.
Item I leave to my daughter Anne Toliver three pound currant Money to be
paid by my executors.
Them I give & bequeath to my son William Marshell my Goodwill of my dwelling
Plantation I now live on, on his taking his Brother, George & Sister Grace
Marshall home and taking care of them & their estates and giving them
Education sufficient for (?conducting Business after my just debts and
funeral expenses is paid.
I leave the remainder part of my Estate to be equally divided amongst my
Children & one Grand Child. James Marshall, William Marshall*, Alexander
Marshell**, George Marshell. (Bressilah? Graves? Margrett Willson, Grace
Marshall & Anne Tolever. I appoint & declare my two sons James Marshell &
William Marshell my whole & sole Executors of my last Will & Testament. In
Writings whereof I have hereunto sett my hand & seal this Twelfth day of
March one Thousand Seven hundred & seventy Eight.
Signed and sealed in presence of: William (his mark) Marshell
Arth Nelson (may be Wilson)
Jeremiah Steaker (?Stoker)
Benjamin Grant
UNQUOTE
Here is the only part I KNOW.
Source: Rust family book, RUST OF VIRGINIA:
William Marshall, b.est 1750..d. 10 Jun 1810 ***
+ Elizabeth (?Nee)
Children of Wm. & Elizabeth (?Nee) Marshall
1. Elizabeth Marshall b.1779 + John Rust (m'd 1797) ****
John Bushrod Rust + Julia Ann Burgess
Edward Scott Rust + Anna Virginia Massie
Julia C Rust (1875)+ Alva Benton Russell (grandparents.)
2. Martha Marshall, b.1790 + George Rust (bro. of John.)
Married in Frederick Co., VA. in 1815.
Bondsman was a William Marshall .
They had one daughter who died at 19. She lived with my John Bushrod
Rust for the 1860 census. Believe she had no other family at this time.
The bondsman, William Marshall, who was alive in 1815, is a mystery.
* Found an 'account' after his death, but no will.
** Alexander Marshall married Susannah Pearl. Do either of you know her
family?
**** Recently found an account of their marriage in Frederick Co, MD.
This is my line..Elizabeth (Marshall) & John Rust.
The book of the Rust family intimated this family was from Marshall Hall,
Charles Co. Md. (the community, not the mansion) Yet when he reported the
death of Elizabeth, mother of Elizabeth and Martha, he stopped
mid-sentence..saying she died 1823 in Marshall.
I'm sure there are more Marshall's than the Marshall Hall family; but so
far, I haven't found them to be mine. Before I go much deeper with Charles
Co. Marshalls, I thought I needed to find the marriage record for John and
Elizabeth (Marshall) Rust. At last, after many stops and starts, I found my
search in Frederick County.
With the help of a local Fred. Co. researcher, I have eliminated James
Marshall, who had so much land in Fred. as one of my ancestors. He was a
contemporary of the son, William of the Will. But he was very wealthy..and
according to one lady, that James was not related to the Marshells/Marshalls
who intermarried with the Pearls.
I have probably stressed your eyes enough for now. I have come to the
conclusion that the only way to prove my line of Marshalls is to try to
untangle the Pearls also.
Oh, almost forgot! Please take note of Edw. "Scott" Rust who married Anna
Virginia Massie. Anna V., was my father's grandmother. He is 98 and still
of agile mind. He remembers her well. She lived with his family for one
year.
When I read the stories you kindly told about William Marshall, a bright
light bulb went off. I asked my dad again..What was the story your
Grandmother told about the Indian heritage?
This is a paraphrase:
Grandmama used to talk about one of the family way back, married an Indian.
I don't remember now whether it was on Mama's father's or mother's side.
(Father=Rust or Mother=Massie) She just said there was someone way back who
married an Indian.
So, IF the Fred. Co, MD Marshall-Pearl lineage proves out, I may have found
the Indian heritage. Back in my Great G'mother & even in my Grandmother's
time, an Indian background wasn't celebrated like it is today. Elizabeth
Marshall Rust would have been a Grandmother of "Scott" Rust..my Dad's
Grandfather. (I believe the William of the Will was the one imprisoned.
Not sure though.)
I tend to believe the Pearl & Marshall families were not one of 'real low'
circumstance; for Elizabeth & John Rust lived in a 12 room (forget if brick
or stone) house on the banks of the Shenandoah River. He was a Chief
Justice and Warren Co. Judge.
Would love to share information with you. Most of all, I'd like to get the
Pearls straight as much as I'd like to find the Marshalls.
I am very curious to know about some of them going to PA. Wonder if there
were family ties up there.
Another Rust descendant said someone had found a marriage record for
William, d.1810 & Elizabeth Marshall (Parents of my Elizabeth) somewhere in
PA. That person thought it was malarky..since the person who told about it
tended to make a lot of sloppy errors.
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Message from Joan Moore - 11 Jan 2007
We have another problem -- Robert Pearl's wife or wives??? See below. What do we
make of that. I thought that Nannie was just shortened to Anne after she was freed.
Now I don't know what to think. Also, if they are two different people, some of
the children might be by Nannie & some by Anne.
Liber T, Pg. 423
Recorded at request of Henry Holland Hawkins, 26 Nov 1736:
26 Nov 1736; Indenture between Robert Pearle, planter, and Henry Holland Hawkins
of Charles Co., Gent.; for &10 and 650# tobacco; a parcel called Archer’s Pasture;
near Cabbin Branch; containing 44 acres; /s/ Robert Pearl; wit. Jno. Hepburn, Jno.
Fraser; ack. Robert Pearl and Anne his wife.
Robert's wife Nanny, who as a free mulatto was also taxable on the 1733 Tax Assessment,
does not appear on the assessment, suggesting she may have already been deceased.
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Message from Joan Moore - 13 Jan 2007
I looked in Calvert Co., MD & they only had 3 or 4 books & there was one thing that
I didn't have & now I know how Mary Jeske determined that Richard Marsham wasn't
such a great person regarding his slaves & servants:
Settlers of Colonial Calvert Co., MD by Elise Greenup Jourdan, pg. 222: Marsham, Richard,
killed servant Jenkin Rice; 1669; Provincial Court (AM 57.597)
Same book, pg. 106: I don't know what this would be: Cranford, James; deposition in 1682
(MD PC 271).
I don't know if you knew this:
To Maryland From Overseas by Harry Wright Newman
Marsham
Richard Marsham who became one of the husbands of Anne Calvert, granddaughter of George,
1st Baron of Baltimore, is placed as a younger son of Thomas Marsham, of London, registrant
at the 1633-35 Visitation of London. Ref: Harleian Soc. Pub., Vol. 17.
Settlers of Colonial Calvert Co., MD by Elise Greenup Jourdon, pg. 82:
Brent, Henry,; acct., 10 Nov. 1698; adm. Ann Marsham (relict) wife of Richard Marsham (I&A 17.144)
I didn't find anything more for Robert or his kids or grand kids.
One thing -- that property that Robert Pearl got from John Cranford -- it says Beaver Dam.
Apparently there are a lot of properties on Beaver Dam. I don't know why it didn't tell the
name of the property?
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From Joan Moore - 18 Jan 2007 -
The following is one of the things that Beverly Peoples sent me:
Excerpt from book Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782 by
Ronald Hoffman in Collaboration with Sally D. Mason, pgs. 221-222:
"Organizing Johnson's information into a series of statements and questions, Charley (Carroll)
then sought clarification from his father; by carefully recording Papa's replies, he not only
found ways of resolving the present difficulties but also created a compact guide for subsequent
dealings with other Carroll tenants. The plight of newcomers who had purchased tenements from
their occupants without following established procedures did not elicit the elder Carroll's
sympathy. Such people "ought to have known my terms before they purchased & not given Slater
& Foster {the former tenants} what was due to me." Tenants who had destroyed timber received
an equally stern response: he had no intention of allowing them to remain on his property if
they committed similar violations in the future. Nor did Papa look kindly on tenant BASIL
PEARLE, who according to Charley's notes, had forsaken his tenement and "gone to his father's
ROB: PEARL'S place." Papa's reaction was curt: "BASIL PEARLE has no better right to his father's
place than he has to the 50a{cres} he took of me; if therefore he does not chuse to hold the
50a{cres} I do not chuse he shall hold his father's place."(6)
As subsequent records confirm, BASIL PEARLE accepted Papa's dictum and continued to farm 150
acres on Carrollton until 1775. Most of the other difficulties uncovered by Charley's
investigation were also satisfactorily resolved, as an analysis of the tenant population in
1771 reveals a remarkable stability, with more than 85 percent (fifty-four) of the sixty-two
renters having taken up their tenements before 1760.(7) Rent collections for 1771 suggest that
this stability translated into productivity: according to the balances recorded on Septembert
29, the Carrolls received tobacco rents amounting to 57,260 pounds, just over 1,100 pounds
more than the 56,076 pounds annually due. Although impressive, these figures do not tell the
whole story: the tobacco paid by their leaseholders still fell nearly 26,000 pounds short of
the cumulative total the Carroll's noted was actually owed them. The arrearage probably
represented both the lingering effects of the problems Charley addressed in the 1760s and a
more general pattern. As Papa had observed a decade earlier, no one could realistically expect
to collect all that was due him every year. Despite such deficits, Carrollton's contribution to
the family coffers continued to please both father and son: upon settling accounts with steward
Joseph Johnson in September 1772, Papa happily informed Charley, "Yr Estate at Monnoccasi has
Produced this Year upwards of 680 pounds sterling.(8)
NOTES: (6) Ibid.
(7) BASIL PEARLE's father, ROBERT PEARLE {PEARL,PERLE}, leased two hundred acres on Carrollton
in March 1745 for a term of seventeen and a half years (Prince George's County Land Records,
liber B.B. no. 1, fols. 264-265, MdAA. BASIL'S decision to move was probably occasioned by
ROBERT'S death in 1765. In addition to BASIL, ROBERT PEARLE left at least one other son, DANIEL
(d. 1774), who farmed one hundred acres on Carrollton from the 1740s or 1750s until his death.
Two other tenants with similar tenures -- JAMES PEARLE (d. 1774) and THOMAS PEARLE, who was
still on the manor in 1779 -- were also sons of ROBERT PEARLE. (CCA, Account Book and Index,
1754-1784, fols. 33, 41, 42, 45, MdHi; (CCA), account with DANLL. PEARLE 1752-1759, Carroll
Papers, MS 216; rent roll and list of balances due on Carrollton, Sept. 29, 1771, and rent
roll for Carrollton, Sep. 29, 1777, Carroll-Maccubbin Papers. Probate records exist for
James Pearle: Frederick County Inventories, box 8, folder 44; and for Daniel Pearle: Frederick
County Wills, box 5, folder 77, MDAA.) James Pearle's will names his wife, Elizabeth,
executrix, lists no children, and designates Basil and Thomas Pearle as "next of kin." For
a fascinating account of the Pearles, a mulatto family, see Mary C. Jeske, "Autonomy and
Opportunity: Carrollton Manor Tenants, 1734-1790" (Ph.D. diss., University of Maryland, 1999),
chap. 1.
The persistence of tenures on Carrollton has been calculated using Charles Carroll of Annapolis's
Account Book and Index, 1754-1784 (a ledger titled MT) in conjunction with the 1768-1771, and
1777 Carrollton rent rolls, the only documents of this kind that have been found. Ledger MT was
begun by Charles Carroll of Annapolis in the mid-1750's, when an earlier book, liber T., had
been completely filled. Although liber T., presumably standing for Tenants' Book and containing
records of all Carroll leaseholders, has not survived, the accounts of Carrollton tenants
carried from that ledger into the new one (MT, for Monocacy Tenants) are designated as coming
from liber T. Although the bulk of the transfers (forty) were made in 1767, one account, that
of Thomas Brashears (fol. 64) was entered in 1754. Entries in ledger MT to 1782 are in CCA's hand.
(8) Carrollton rent roll, Sept. 29, 1771, Carroll-Maccubbin Papers; CCA to Clement Hill and
Basil Waring, Nov. 21, 1760, CCA, letterbook 1757-1761, fol. 19, MdHi; CCA to CCC, Sept. 10,
1772, Carroll Papers, MS 206. Comparing rent roll summaries with specific entries in ledger
MT, Jeske concludes that arrearages fluctuated, with tenants making up deficits in some years
and incurring them in others ("Autonomy and Opportunity," chap. 7).
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From Joan Moore - 19 Jan 2007 -
I don't have the actual deeds, just the General Index to Deeds in Allegany Co., MD
1. Thomas Purl from James Purl et al, Deed, Book E. pg, 555, 1810
2. Mary & James Purl to Thomas Purl, Deed, Book E, pg. 55, 1810
3. Thomas Purl From John Purl et ux, Deed, Book E, pg. 55, 1810
4. Hannah & John Purl to Thomas Purl, Deed, Book E, pg. 556, 1810
5. Charles Purl from Margaret A. Purl, Deed, Book F, pg. 180, 1811
6. Margaret A. Purl to Charles Purl, Deed, Book F, pg. 180, 1811
7. Charles Purrell, from Charles McAtee, Deed, Book IJ, pg. 537, 1818
8. Charles Purl from James Purl, Deed, Book O, pg. 271, 1828
9. James Purl to Charles Purl, Deed, Book O., pg. 271, 1828
l0. Charles Perrill, from Seth Perrill et ux, Deed, Book P, pg. 209, 1830
11. Seth & Susan Perrill to Charles Perrill, Deed, Book P, pg 209, 1830
12. Charles Perrile from Elizabeth Perrile et al, Deed, Book P, pg. 287, 1831
13. Elizabeth Perrille to Charles Perrile, Deed, Book P, pg. 287, 1831
14. Mary Ann & James P., & Thomas C. Purl to Charles Bucy et al, Deed, Book 5, pg. 632,
1850
15. Elizabeth & Charles Purl to Charles Bucy et al, Deed, Book 5, pg. 635, 1850
16. Susan K. Pirl from Daniel F. McMullen et ux, Deed, Book 205, pg. 269, 1945
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From Joan Moore - 6 Feb 2007
At the request of Robert Pearl the Following was Enrolled May the Twenty Eighth
Seventeen hundred and Twenty three.
MARYLAND
TO ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE to whom these presents within shall come KNOW YEE that I
John Cranford formerly of Calvert County but now of prince George's County son and
heir of James Cranford send greeting in our Lord God Everlasting know yee that I
the said John Cranford have made ordained and constituted in my stead in my behalf
and in my place but and deputed and by these presents do make and ordain and
constitute in my stead on my behalf and in my place my well beloved and asteemed
Friend Robert Pearl of prince George's County Carpenter alias Molatto Robin my true
and Lawful atty to act and do form and to take possession and seizure of all and
every part of that Tract or parcell of land lying and being in prince George's
County in the woods from Potuxcent river near adjoining to a branch called beaver
damm branch and I do Firmly by these presents Imperver? my well beloved Friend Robert
Pearl to take seizure of the aforesaid Tract of parcell of Land and if any prohibiting
of any person or persons thereunto relating then it shall and may be Lawfull for my
Trusty Friend Robert Pearl to take any course of Law for the recovery of the said
land as to him shall think necessary and shall there and then at the recovery of the
said Land peaceably occupy and enjoy them as his own proper right to him the said
Pearl and his heirs forever without any molestation or claiming by from or under me
note that if the said Pearl finds or discovers more land in the aforesaid Tract of
land then 300 Acres then the said Pearl is to pay to said Cranford's _____* an acre
for all the mainder of such land as Witness my hand and seal the 24th January AD 1722/3.
NOTE: *I can't make this out is could be 20 pounds but it is NOT clear at all.
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Message from Mary Jeske to Joan Moore, Feb 2007
Hi Joan
Sorry I have been so long getting back to you. I finally had a chance to read through
everything and to check all my own notes.
First of all, I have nothing on Lawrence Pearle. You and others have done far more
research in the later generations than I did. I think it is quite likely he was the
grandson of Robert/Robin (d. 1765), and quite possibly the son of Basil. But I can't
add anything to what you've already found.
Second. I checked the original record for the Robert Pearle who supposedly was going
to England (PG Co. Land Records, Liber M [1726-1730], fol. 433. I don't know where
your transcript of the record came from, or if there is another record that I did
not see, but the one I am looking at (the original) says: "At the request of Charles
Pembrook the Following Discharge was Enrolled June the Seventeenth Day Anno Domi
Seventeen hundred & Twenty Nine "Whereas Robert Pearle hath entered into Bond dated
the 14th day of May last to pay me or my heirs the Sum of thrity five pounds Sterl
in the manner expressed in the Condition to the said Bond & whereas I am now going to
reside in Lond & cannot reasonably take Charles Pembrooke with me from his wife &
children & as he has faithfully & honestly served me hitherto & is not able nor I
willing he should be put to an hard labour. These are therefore to certifie all whom
it may concern that on these considerations I have discharged & do hereby freely discharge
him the said Charles Pembrooke from all further Service & give him intire libery & freedom
Witness my hand & Seal this 9th Day of June 1729. [Signed] Henry Darnall.
Tested [witnesses] Henry Darnall Junr[;] Charles Neale"
As you can see, it is Henry Darnall, not Robert Pearle, who was going to England.
Apparently Robert Pearle was going to buy Pembrooke but had not been able to by
the time Darnall left for England and Darnall, for whatever reason, decided to free Pembrooke.
So, unless there is some other record, this dispenses with a Robert Pearle who was
going to England.
Third. Unless I am missing something, I see no reason to think that the "negro man Robin"
in James Cranford's 1699 inventory was mulatto Robin/Robert Pearle. Robin was not an
uncommon name and the Robin in the inventory is not referred to as a mulatto, a carpenter,
or as Robert Pearle (unless there is something missing from the transcript you sent me;
I have not looked at the original). I don't see any connection between negro Robin and
the Robert Pearle/mulatto Robin in John Cranford's 1722 power of attorney from Cranford
to Pearle. There is no evidence to connect the two. How Pearle became Cranford's esteemed
friend is certainly intriguing, but there is no evidence that he had been James Cranford's
servant. According to Richard Marsham's will, Robert Pearle/mulatto Robin was born about
1685 (and we know he died 1765, so unlikely he was born much earlier). So he was only 14
when James Cranford's inventory was made, and so unlikely to have been referred to as a negro man.
If there is something about the 1699 Inventory, or the 1722 release, that I am missing,
please let me know.
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Joan
Now that I’ve mulled this thing over a bit, I come to the same conclusion I did at first
reading. Basically, Robin the slave of James Cranford and Robert Pearle, mulatto Robin,
friend of John Cranford are 2 entirely different people.
Mary’s assessment seems to me to be correct. This is supported by the fact that I’ve seen
many “Robins” as slaves in that time in Maryland. Additionally, when reading the Maryland
Archives online for all references for the names Cranford and Marsham(there were quite a lot)
I found a number of situations that indicate that these families knew each other and likely
would have often had contact with each other. That would account for how John Cranford came
to know Robert Pearl. They seem to be contemporaries and it is interesting the degree of
confidence Cranford had in Pearl. Just another of things that indicate Pearl’s unusual
position.
I do think that you have now gotten the story to the fullest degree possible regarding the
Cranford/Pearl relationship and there is nothing in it that refutes any of Mary Jeske’s
observations. Joan, do you now think the same?
Beverly Peoples
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