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John Pleasants, II is actually the fourth to be given this name from his line in England. It's origin comes from John Pleasants, I (1588-1640); then John, II (1618-death unk), then John, III (1644-1698) aka John, I in America and aka John the Immigrant. This has confused many. This is an attempt to clear up that confusion.
John Pleasants, II (aka IV, from his line in England) married Dorothy Carey, dau. of Thomas and Ann (Milner) Carey.
They are the parents of (there may be more):
John Pleasants, III (1697-1771)(aka V, from his line in England)
Alice (Pleasants) Proffitt (1698-1771)
John Pleasants, II's Parents are:
John Pleasants, I (1644/45-1698)(aka the Immigrant, aka John, III from his line in England) and Jane (Larcome) Pleasants, widow of Capt. Samuel Tucker.
John Pleasants, II's Siblings are (there may be more):
Joseph Pleasants
Mary Elizabeth (Pleasants) Cocke
John, II inherited Curles "Neck" Plantation, Henrico County, Colony of Virginia from his father, John, I, the Immigrant. Source: Henrico County-Will: John Pleasants, 1690 submitted by Peggy Hooper (hooperhous@earthlink.net) 12 Oct 2003: Henrico County, GEBWEB Archives & the Valentine Papers, Vol. 2, p. 1053. Joseph, John and Mary Elizabeth aka Eliza. are mentioned in his will. Mary Elizabeth (Pleasants) Cocke (1676-1751) is John, II's sister, not daughter.
The Pleasants family were a prominent Virginia Quaker family with lands on the Upper James River.

John heiratete Cary, Dorothy um 1694 in , Henrico County, Virginia, USA. Dorothy (Tochter von Cary, Thomas und Milner, Anne) wurde geboren am 24 Dez 1679 in ,, Virginia, USA; und gestorben in ,, Virginia, USA. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]

1. Pleasants, John III. wurde geboren in 1698 in , Henrico County, Virginia, USA; gestorben in 1771 in , Henrico County, Virginia, USA.

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John Pleasants, I (in America, aka John the Immigrant) was actually the third in his line from England to have this name. John Pleasants, I (in America) father was John Pleasants, II (1618-death unk) and his grandfather was John Pleasants, I (1588-1640). For this record John Pleasants, I (aka the III from his line in England) will be listed as above so that the U. S. records match this one, and (hopefully) the records of his descendants with this same name.
The Pleasants family were a prominent Virginia Quaker family with lands on the Upper James River. John Pleasants (d. 1698) emigrated from England and settled in Henrico County, Virginia, around 1665. He converted to Quakerism and was an active and prominent member of the church, donating land to the church, the Curles Meeting House, and filing peitions and reports to the authorities on behalf of the Society of Friends. He married Jane (Larcome) Tucker, widow of Samuel Tucker, in 1670.

John heiratete Larcome, Jane geschätzt 1670. Jane wurde geboren am 29 Nov 1638 in Bristol, Bristol, England, Großbritannien; gestorben in 1708 in , Henrico County, Virginia, USA; wurde beigesetzt in Curles Neck Meeting House Burying Ground, Henrico County, Virginia, USA. [Familienblatt] [Familientafel]

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History of Henrico County" Louis H. Manarin and Clifford Dowdey:
The most prominent Quaker in the county was John Pleasants, a planter of means and a respected member of the community. He allowed his house to be used as a meeting place for Quakers and was warned repeatedly. The enforcement of the anti-Quaker acts came when he and his wife were indicted for living together unlawfully according to the rules of the established church, which did not recognize their marriage under the Quaker doctrine.
He and his wife were fined 240 pounds each for illicit cohabitation and 20 pounds each for every month they failed to attend services of the parish church. Additional fines were imposed of two thousand pounds of tobacco for not having their children baptized and five hundred pounds of tobacco for allowing Quaker meetings in their house. The adoption in England of the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience and Indulgence in Religious Matters of 1687 and the Toleration Act of 1688 allowed dissenting religious groups to hold religious services openly without having to conform to the doctrines of the established church. The governor was directed to proclaim the declarations in every county, and it was to be done with the beating of drums, the firing of cannons and expresions of popular enthusiasm. The proclamation was spread on the Henrico County Minute Book in 1690. The passage of the act relieved Pleasants and his wife of the charges and nullified the fines. That same year, Pleasants set aside a parcel of land for a meetinghouse and graveyard. This meetinghouse was registered with the county court in 1692.
Smith Manuscript, Ridgeway Library, Philadelphia : Jane Pleasants, wife of John Pleasants, was zealous for the cause of Truth and had a Gift in the ministry which was very acceptable to Friends and particularly serviceable at that early time in a wilderness country, the good effect thereof was very visible in the place where she lived for a long time and where her ability of Body would not admit her to Ride alone which was for several years before her death she used to ride behind one of her servants and so continue to visit Friends and attend meetings to near the last period of her time. She survived her worthy husband by nine or ten years and then departed this life in a good old age in the year 1708, and was Buryed in Friends Burying Ground near Curles Meeting House in the presence of a numerous Assembly of Friends and neighbors.

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