MARYLAND "PEARL" NOTES


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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http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Palmer-Rustin.htm

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 <A 
HREF="http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/md/princegeorge/wills/marsha
m-r.txt">HERE</A>, 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 subscribed 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

"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

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 50 acres} 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 
September 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 acreage 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