Person:Pierce Poole (2)

From the research of Joyce Poole: Birth and death dates from Herbert Armstrong Poole family Bible, stated in Anthony Maitland (decendent) Poole history. The report states: "While I can find no actual record of the names of his (Pierce) parents, but from the records of Brookhaven, L.I., its proximity to Hempstead, and the name "William", the third son of Pierce Poole, it is probable that Pierce was the son of William Poole of Brookhaven." "AM/10/65 HP64 Born: abt 1705 Parents: William Poole Died: 1775, Hempstead, LI. From HP064: Pierce Poole, according to our family bibles, was born about 1709, (probably as early as 1700), and died at Hempstead, L.I., in 1775, place of birth not known. The name Pierce is spelled in various documents as Pearce, Pearse, Pierssey, Percy, Pearcy, and Pars: our family bible spelled it Pearce, but Pierce seems to be the most common spelling. Our family records state he was an Englishman by birth, the father of James Poole: that he lived in Jerusalem, L.I., and that he bought the old Poole place at North Side, L.I., where he and his son James lived their whole lives. I can find no actual record of the names of his parents, but from the records of Brookhaven, L.I., its proximity to Hempstead, and the name William, the third son of Pierce Poole, it is probable that Pierce was the son of William Poole of Brookhaven. See what I have written under Subject 128. Hempstead Town Records prove that Pierce Poole lived there from 1721-2 to 1769 as follows:- Vol 3, p 164 states that "Pierssey Poole, his earmark is a happeny aforesaid each ear, and a nick in each hapenny, entered this 12th day of October 1736, by me, Micah Clark". In the will of Samuel Thurston of Jamaica, L.I., dated January 25/1721-2, Percy Pool signed as a witness. On November 5/1769, Percy and his sons James and Solomon, signed a road petition. " (http://www.antonymaitland.com/poole001.htm#PP1 Site Accessed: Aug. 13, 2005 )

Pierce Poole married, 1st, Mary - (last name not given), as per the New York Genealogical & Biographical Record, Vol 19 page 11, containing a copy of the Register Book of the Parish of Jamaica, L.I., kept by the Reverend Thomas Poyar, Rector of Grace Church from 1710 to 1732, in which was recorded the baptism of his son James, son of Pierce and Mary Poole. There is no record of Mary's maiden name, nor her birth and death dates. However, there is mentioned in Hempstead Town Records, a Lawrence Poole who was an ensign in a military company there in 1746. As an ensign he would have been about 16 years of age, making his birth about 1730. This would suggest that Pierce Poole's first wife was a Lawrence, of the large Lawrence family in Hempstead, but I cannot trace her in the Lawrence genealogies. Pierce Poole married, 2nd, at St. George's Church, Hempstead, LI, on July 5/1740, Sarah Pearse (spelled Pierce in the St. George's Church Records), daughter of William and Elizabeth Pearse of Hempstead, William Pearce's will appears in the New York Historical Society's collections, Abstracts of Wills, Vol 3, p 258, dated January 15/1738-9, proved May 26/1739, in which he wrote:- "I leave to my wife Elizabeth, one third of all the money made by the sale of my estate, and the other two thirds to my daughters Sarah, Rosannah (who married on November 17/1752, Thomas Birdsall) Hannah, and Phebe, (who married on March 21/1761, Albert Albertson), hut as it is likely that my wife is with child, that child is to have an equal portion". Executors, my brothers James Pearse, and my friend Joseph Hallett: the witnesses were Samuel Langdon, John Carman, and Mordecai Lester

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