Person:Martha Pleasants (4)

Martha Pleasants

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m. Bef 1728

Facts and Events

Name^[1]	Martha Pleasants
Gender	Female
Birth`^?`		Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Marriage	Bef 1728	North Carolina, United Statesto Robert Hall
Death`^?`		North Carolina, United States

References

↑ Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, c1981)
1:487.

... his grandfather [Robert Hall] was one of the first colonists of Flowerdieu Hundred, a settlement on James River. He married a Quakeress, Martha Pleasants. His son, William Hall, father of Dr. Robert Hall, married Susanna Poythress, and a daughter Patsy (or Martha) married Benjamin Waller of Williamsburg. ...
Henry, William Wirt, and Ainsworth Rand Spofford. Eminent and representative men of Virginia and the District of Columbia of the nineteenth century: with a concise historical sketch of Virginia by Hon. William Wirt Henry and of the District of Columbia by Ainsworth R. Spofford. (Madison, Wisconsin: Brant & Fuller, 1893)
488.

... [Robert Hall] coming from the island of Bermuda to the United States, was one of the colonists of Fleur de Hundred, a settlement on the lower James river. He married a Quakeress, Martha Pleasants, of Philadelphia, a member of the family to which ex-Governor Pleasants of Virginia belonged. ...