Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Margaret JORDAN
Margaret Pleasants , wife of John Pleasants and daughter of Robert Jordan of Nansemond Co. , was endowed with a good degree of Piety, Humility and Plainness and endeavored both by example and Precept to bring up her children in the same and tho of a more than common Tender and indulgent disposition towards them in other Respects was very careful to restrain them from every hurtful or unprofitable thing nor can one better express her commendable care in forming the minds of her tender offspring or sense of Duty and obligation to God for his manifold favor and Blessings than in her own words contained in a letter to one of her sons then absent in Philadelphia which is as followeth. "Oh the goodness of the Almighty is very great every day for which we have cause to bless and praise his great and worthy name we have as much need as ever dear child to look unto the Lord that he is and will be with thee the Desire and prayer of thy tender mother is that thou may abide in his blessed council then all will be well." We may further add with justice to her memory that she was frequent in attending meetings as the circumstances of a numerous family would admitt and very exemplary in humble walking therein, was frequent in Reading the Holy Scriptures and very desirous of Friends Company and rather shunned than sought that of other people. She was also patient under suffering of which a Remarkable tryal happened soon after she became Mistress of a family, and a few days after she was delivered of her first child when the sheriff in order to make a seizure on account of Priests wages and before it was altogether decent entered her room and took away the Bed she had just got out of. She was Remarkable for her economy and diligent in the affairs of her family, which always appeared with a becoming decency ever avoiding superfluities either in her home or Table even when her circumstances in the world would have allowed it. We may further add to the aforementioned qualifications that she was a kind and hospitable neighbor, a loving and Dutiful wife and good Mistress. Her last illness which continued about four weeks she seemed to bear with the apprehension of her approaching Dissolution with good degree of Christian patience and resignation. She departed this life in the 5th of the 10th Mo. 1746 , and was buried in the family Burying ground at Curles attended by many friends and neighbors. (Smith Manuscript , Ridgeway Library , Philadelph
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