cape-merchant

When Abraham Peirsey, affluent cape-merchant, directed in his will,

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

He married, a year or two thereafter, the widow of the cape-merchant Abraham Peirsey.

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

Mrs. Elizabeth Draper of London, dated 1625, in which she bequeathed to her granddaughters, Elizabeth and Mary Peirsey, daughters of the cape-merchant Abraham Peirsey, each, a diamond ring, Mary's set "after the Dutch fashion."

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

Abraham Peirsey, the cape-merchant, directed, in his will dated 1626, that he be buried in his garden, where his new frame house stood.

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester

Shortly becoming a widow, she thereafter married, as his second wife, the cape-merchant Abraham Peirsey and upon his death, 1626, she became the wife of Captain Samuel Mathews of "Denbigh" on the Warwick River.

Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century Annie Lash Jester