CAMPBELL COUNTY, VA - HISTORY - Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches
			Family  Sketches - Pleasants
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                   CAMPBELL CHRONICLES and FAMILY SKETCHES

              Embracing the History of CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
                                  1782-1926
                                By R. H. EARLY
                              With Illustrations
                              J. P. BELL COMPANY
                           LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA 1927


Pleasants

  John Pleasants emigrated from Norwich, England, in 1665, to Virginia, settled
on James river in 1668; his son, Joseph, m. Martha Cocke, whose son, John m.
Susanna Woodson: they were Quakers. Thomas Pleasants was a preacher in 1739 at
Cedar Creek Meeting, Hanover county, m. Margaret Jordan; Joseph m. Elizabeth
Jordan; James in 1775 was a member of a select committee to procure ammunition
for county use.

  The recurrence in many Campbell county families of Pleasant as a given name,
seems to indicate extensive connection of that family with others, yet this
supposition is not confirmed by the marriage bonds on record, and popular use of
the name may have merely testified the regard felt for Preacher Thomas Pleasants.

  John Hampden Pleasants, son of James Pleasants of Goochland, moved to
Lynchburg, where he established The Press at the time when the press of
Lynchburg was at a low ebb, and he produced a revolution in the printing
establishment. He married Ann Eliza Irvine.


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