Their son was probably John Pearson(1722-1798).Many records show John as active in buying and selling land, owning over 1,000 acres at one time. He served the Patriot cause in the Revolution and was a witness to many Brunswick County documents. His first wife was Sarah _____ who died in 1783. Their children were Morris, Littleberry, William, John, and Thomas. After his first wife's death, John married "Patty" Johnson. Their children were Johnson, Martha ("Patsy") and Narcissa. His will left his estate to his second wife and her children. [The late Carolyn Olsen of Bountiful, Utah established our line of descent from this John Pearson.  Her original Pearson and Taylor family research has been the inspiration for this genealogical project.]

Littleberry Pearson (1768-1808), the second son of John Pearson, married Mary "Nanny" Thomas,probable daughter of Peter Thomas, in Mecklenburg County in 1786. They were the parents of ten children: Littleberry, Drury, Mary, Sarah, Peter, Nancy, Anna, Pascal, Rebecca, and Gray. According to the 1807 tax list, Littleberry owned 320 acres of land on Rattlesnake Creek in Brunswick County which he had bought from his father John Pearson (and his second wife Patty) in 1788.

Drury Pearson (1788 -1862) married Elizabeth Smith(1787 - 1855), the daughter of Stephen Smith, who was born in 1787 in Brunswick County. She died in August of 1855, reportedly of "palsy". One record lists their children as sons William, Littleberry T., Sterling A.S., Harrison W., Drury R., and John Ira. It is a family tradition that Drury was among a volunteer group that took wagons up to a battlefield near Richmond in 1862 to bring back wounded Brunswick County Confederate soldiers. The same year, he died of an illness - probably typhoid contacted while on this mission. On April 10, 1863, an inventory and appraisal of the estate of Drury Pearson was returned and recorded in Brunswick County. The most valuable property was 12 slaves valued at $7,800. [Our cousins, Jimmy Ingram of Norfolk, VA and his sisters Margaret Ann Pruden and the late Betty Wynne Neal of Roanoke Rapids, NC, obtained the documents concerning this family.]

John Ira Drury Pearson (1826 -1862), married Rhoda Rosa Ann Thomas (1830 -1912) in Mecklenburg County. In 1850 John was overseer on the property of Tinsey Winn Thomas, his widowed mother-in-law. The census reports that he and wife Rhody had a son Drury (known later by his first name, Robert), 3 years old and an infant John, 5 months. Perhaps the Thomas family needed him after his wife's father had died. John was a farmer in Brunswick County when the Civil War began ten years later. His older brother Littleberry (named for their grandfather), a 43-year old carpenter and a widower with no children, joined the Brunswick County Grays. John, a father of six, also joined this regiment and they both served with General Stonewall Jackson in the Virginia campaigns. In April 1862, when he was 36, John died near Standardsville, where he was buried. His death was from the epidemic of measles which swept through the campground. Drury, John's father, died a few months after. John's oldest son Robert, who also served with the Confederacy, was sixteen when John died. The son John had died as a child. There were six other children: Leonard, Stephen, Peter Winn, Benjamin, Albert H. and Mary Elizabeth.

Peter Winn Pearson (1855-1934) was only six when his father died. Since the family property was lost after the war, he worked as a tenant farmer, rising to be overseer on the property of the Drumgoole family. In 1877 he married Mary Ella Taylor(1859 -1899). Their children were James Ira, Robert Benjamin, John William, Henry Vernon, Annie Mae, Mary Elva, Kate Elizabeth, Grace Bryant, and Edward. Mary Ella died shortly after the birth of the last child. Peter Winn married Martha Sue Huskie and he had three children of that second marriage: Rose Ella, Harvey Hoyt, and Gray. He died in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina where he had lived for 30 years. The local newspaper remembered him as

"an honest, loyal, and kind-hearted citizen. His acquaintance was wide, and hisfriends numbered by the score."

John William Pearson (1883-1954) had an ambition, even as a child on the farm, to obtain an education and become a Methodist minister. He achieved that goal, and married Lillian Blackwood(1887 - 1943), the daughter of his mentor, James Blackwood, a Methodist minister in Tennessee. They made their homes wherever his church sent him: Tennessee, Louisiana, Missouri, West Virginia and, happily for him, back to Virginia. Their children are Mattie Love (Bates), James Blackwood, and Lillian Virginia (Green). In his beloved native state, he bought a farm for his retirement. However, after Lillian's death he moved to Florida and married Emily Phillips. He died in Clearwater in 1954.

            Mattie Love "Pat" Pearson (1917-2006) married John Monroe Bates (1907-1993). They made their home in Nashville and Monteagle,TN.  Their children are John Monroe, Jr., Thomas Overall, and Willian Nelson.

            James Blackwood Pearson (1920-2009)married Martha Mitchell (1921-2000). They made their home in Kansas City, KS and Washington, DC.  Their children are James, Thomas, William, and Laura Alice. After his retirement from the US Senate, James and Martha divorced. He married Margaret Lynch. Their homes were in Baldwin, Kansas and Gloucester, MA.

            Lillian Virginia Pearson married Thomas Nash Green. Their last homes were in San Diego, CA and Salem, Oregon.  Their children are Thomas Nash, Jr. and Martha Ann.