Ann Fairman1,2

F, #1907, b. circa 1733, d. 7 August 1773
Last Edited: 11 Apr 2013

Parents:

Father: Benjamin Fairman2 d. 1 Jan 1739
Mother: Susanna Field2 b. 27 Jun 1693, d. 29 Sep 1750

Family:

William Pearson d. 22 Jun 1783

Children:

Notes

  • Note*: The parentage of the Ann Fairman who married William Pearson is uncertain. But she is most probably the child of Benjamin Fairman and his wife Susanna Field, for the following reasons:

    Benjamin Fairman's will names a minor child Ann.

    That Ann is the last named child in his will. The marriage date of Ann (Fairman) Pearson is compatible with her being the youngest among Benjamin Fairman's children, based on the known marriage dates: Elizabeth 1743, Mary 1747, Sarah 1747, Ann 1752.

    Ann (Fairman) Pearson was born about 1733, so her mother Susannah (Field) Fairman would have been about forty at the time of her birth, a not improbable age.

    Fairman was an uncommon name. No other Ann Fairman has been found by this compiler in an extensive search of Pennsylvania and New Jersey records. Also no other candidate family has been identified who might have had an Ann. The Fairman papers in the Ella C. Long collection also fail to find any other candidate family. Grandfather Thomas Fairman had a brother Robert named in many land transactions conducted by Thomas, but he is known to have resided in England. L. Paul Dilig states that another brother, Francis, arrived in America by 1701; but he does not surface in Pennsylvania vital records. An unidentified Alice Fairman married a George Philips in 1727 at First Presbyterian in Philadelphia; any connection is unknown.

    Circumstantial evidence also supports the conclusion that William Pearson's wife was the daughter of Benjamin Fairman and his wife Susannah Field: First, a William Pearson, presumably Ann Fairman's husband, witnessed the 1753 will of her step-father William Hayes, the second husband of Susannah Field. Second, a Sarah Lynn witnessed the Quaker marriages of two of Ann (Fairman) Pearson's children. Presumably this was Sarah, daughter of Ann Fairman's sister Sarah (Fairman) Lynn. This niece would have been the right age to have witnessed.
  • Note: Philadelphia Monthly Meeting Minutes: "25/3/1757...A paper from Ann Pearson condemns her breach of discipline in marriage."4

Citations

  1. [S58] Christ Church (Episcopal), Philadelphia, Church records 1702-1976. FHL Microfilm 1,490,578. 1752 Christ Church marriages.
  2. [S6] Abstracts of Philadelphia County Wills 1682-1726, and Abstracts of Philadelphia County Wills 1726-1747. publ 1995 Family Line Publications. 'abstracted under the auspices of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s.' p. 101, will of Benjamin Fairman.
  3. [S446] Society of Friends, Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Northern District. Filmed at Dept. of Friends Records Phila. FHL microfilm 20,473. I Births & Deaths 1772-1806, p. 61.
  4. [S509] Watring, Anna Miller, Early Quaker Records of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Vol 1 1682-1750; Vol 2 1751-1800 (Westminster, Maryland: Family Line Publications, 1997), 2:138.   Watring--Early-Quaker-Phil.pdf
  5. [S206] Hinshaw, William Wade, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. II (Pa. & N.J.), Vol III (N.Y.) (Originally published Ann Arbor, 1938. Reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co. Baltimore 1969., ), 2:404.
  6. [S543] Wills: Abstracts: Philadelphia Co., USGenWeb Archives web site; contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Thera, Jack Bowman, and Judy, online http://usgwarchives.net/pa/philadelphia/wills.html, will of William Pearson, 1784.
  7. [S337] Pearson, John, "Blunston Pearson", pp. 110-118 of "J. Granville Leach Collection, Genealogical Data, Vol IV". Typed manuscript, described in the first sentence as: "The following is a copy of a genealogy prepared by John Pearson, Esq., son of Thomas and Anne Pearson, of Darby, Pa., and signed by him in 1812" (FHL microfilm 481830, ), p. 115-116.   Leach--Pearson-481830.pdf