Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Jacob SERRILL
Jacob Serrill, the great-grandfather of Mrs. Griffith, was the Quaker ancestor mentioned previously who bore "arms in a martial manner" during the troublous Revolutionary times. He indeed fought "foes without and foes within", and in the battle between love of country and his religious training and profession that he had to fight, a less patriotic man would have taken refuge behind his religion. But those times that indeed "tried men's souls" saw many such inward battles fought and won for patriotic defense against the invader. Jacob Serrill married Hannah Pearson. Their son, George Serrill, married Jane Pearson. James Pearson Serrill, son of George and Jane (Pearson) Serrill, married Ellen O'Hara Mowry, the great-granddaughter of Christian Mowry, the Revolutionary soldier.
A third line of Revolutionary descent that connects Mrs. Griffith with Revolutionary days is the Pearson. James Pearson, great-grandfather, was captain of a company of Philadelphia Artillery. He died in 1813, aged seventy-eight years. He married Susannah Hart. Their daughter, Jane Pearson, married George Serrill, son of the patriotic "Friend", and they were the parents of James Pearson Serrill, father of Mrs. Samuel B. Griffith.
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