Petition of Enoch Pearson, transcribed by Mark Waldron 23 March 2009

To the Honorable Justices of the Orphans Court held & kept at West Chester for the County of Chester the 21st day of December anno Domini 1790 ~

The Petition of Enoch Pearson eldest son and heir at law of William Pearson late of East Bradford Township in the said County decd.

Respectfully sheweth
		That your Petitioner's Father the said William Pearson in or about the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy eight died Intestate leaving a Widow named Elizabeth and Issue Eight Children viz. Enoch your Pet., Mary, William, Elizabeth now the wife of Solomon Silvester, Phebe, Jane, Sarah & Elijah to survive him. 
That Letters of Administration on the Estate of the said Intestate were granted to Caleb Baldwin who hath Settled the account of his Administratin in the Register's office for this County.  That the said Intestate was in his lifetime and at the time of his death among other things [???]evzed and possessed in his Demesne as of fee of and in a Messauge or Tenement and Plantation or Tract of land situate in the Township of East Bradford aforsaid containing about One hundred acres ~ 
That your petitioner is very desirous that the said Messuage Land and premises may be divided or valued to and amongst the said Intestate's widow and Children according to Law.  He therefore prays the Honorable Court to award an Inquest to divide the same Messuage, Land and Premises to and amongst the said Intestator widow & children according to Law if the same can be so done without prejudice to, or spoiling the whole, otherwise to value the same 
And your Petitioner shall be
			Enoch Pearson [signature]