The Old Homestead

Contact me at bebowers@hotmail.com

God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

- Romans 5:8

Peirsol - Eastern Pennsylvania timeline


Following is a timeline showing when the male Piersols of Chester County, Pa., appear in various records. This represents all of the records that I have uncovered for the time period before about 1790.

This will prove helpful in determining chronology and possible relationships.  It will also determine whether some of the people listed in "The History and Genealogy of the Pearsall Family in England and America" really existed.  Starting in the 1720s, Chester County taxes were collected about every other year.  We still have those records and they are an excellent indication of who lived where.  The tax man might miss you once but he won't miss you two, three or eight times.  If someone fails to appear in the records, he probably didn't live in the area - at least for very long.  If you compare these records to the Pearsall history, you'll notice that Volume 3 contains more "Chester County Piersols" than those who actually lived in Chester County.
For the raw data that was used to compile this timeline, please see Eastern Pennsylvania Piersols.
 
Brian Bowers
 

1706 – deed
Edward

1717 – land warrants on same day
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1717 – Edward’s will written
Richard (brother) / Edward / Elizabeth (mother)

1717-19 – Brandywine surveys
John / Richard

1719 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1720 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1721 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1722 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1724 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1725 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1726 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1729 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1730 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1732 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1734 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1735 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1735 – deed
Jeremiah / David

1737 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1739 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1740 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Richard

1747 – taxes
Jeremiah Sr. / John / Richard / John Jr.

1749 – taxes
Jeremiah / John. / Richard / Jeremiah / John

1750 – taxes
Jeremiah / JohnSr. / Richard / Jeremiah Jr. / John Jr.

1753 – Richard’s will
Jeremiah / John / Richard/Bridget
(witness) / (witness) /

1753 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Bridget / Jeremiah Jr. / John Jr.

1754 – taxes
Jeremiah Sr. / JohnSr. / Bridget / Jeremiah Jr. / John Jr.

1756 – taxes
Jeremiah Sr. / John. / Widow / John / Jeremiah / John Jr.

1757 – taxes
Jeremiah / JohnSr. / Widow / John / Jeremiah Jr. / John Jr.

1757 – John’s estate papers
John / Sara (wife)

1758 – taxes
Jeremiah / JohnSr. / Widow / Jeremiah Jr. / John Jr. / Richard

1760 – taxes
Jeremiah / John / Jacob / Sarah / Jeremiah / John Jr. / Richard / David

1762 – taxes
Jacob / Abraham / Jeremiah Jr. / John Jr. / Richard / David / Isaac

1763 – taxes
Jeremiah (?) / / JohnSr. / Jacob / Abram / Jeremiah / John Jr. / Richard / David / Isaac

1765 – taxes
John / Jacob / John Jr. / Richard / David / Isaac

1766 – taxes
Jacob / Abraham / Jeremiah / Dinah / / Richard / David / Isaac

1766 – bond
Jeremiah / Isaac

1767 – taxes
Jacob / Abraham / Jeremiah / Dinah / Richard

1768 – taxes
Jacob / Abraham / Jeremiah / Dinah / Richard

1769 – taxes
John / Jacob / Abraham / Jeremiah / Richard

1770 – Mordecai gets married
Modrecai

1771 – taxes
John / Jacob / Jeremiah / Richard

1771 – Jeremiah dies, miller, no will
Jeremiah

1772 - deed
Jacob / Jeremiah

1773 – John’s will written
Peter / John/Alice / Jeremiah (d) / / John (d) / / Mordecai / Dinah Kennedy

1774 – taxes
John / Mordecai / Jeremiah / Richard

1779 – taxes
Peter / Alice / Mordecai / Jeremiah / Richard

1780 – taxes
Peter / Alice / Mordecai / Jeremiah / Richard

1781 – taxes
Alice / William / Mordecai / Jeremy / Richard

c. 1781 – fined by militia
William / Mordecai / Jeremiah / Richard

1782 – William gets married
William

1785 – taxes
Peter / Alice / Mordecai / Jeremiah / Richard

1785 – Alice’s will written
Richard (son-in-law)

1790 – census
Peter / Mordecai / Jeremiah / Richard

1793 – land warrants in Northamton County on the same day
Mordecai / Jeremiah

1794 – land warrants in Berks County on the same day
William / John

1799 – Richard’s will written
Jacob / John / Richard

1800 – census
Mordecai / Jeremiah / Jeremiah Jr.

1807 – Peter’s will written
Peter / Richard / Mordecai (sons)

1811 – John’s will written
Jacob (brother) / / John

1814 – Elizabeth, widow of Jeremiah, writes will
Moses / William / John / Daniel / Jeremiah / Jeremiah / Samuel