♂John Pysing

John Pysing was an Englishman of the 1500s who is said to have been the grandfather of Joan Pyssing, who married Thomas Hull at Crewkerne, in Somerset, on 11 January 1572/3. He was the twelfth great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his son Richard Pesinge. His home is given as Abbotsbury, a village near the Dorset coast.

John’s wife was probably Elizabeth Salmon. Their son Richard Pesinge, whose wife was named Margery, had probably died by 25 June 1588. The family is remembered because of Richard’s grandsons: two of Joan’s sons, George and Joseph Hull, settled in New England, and Joseph Hull^W, a clergyman, led a company of West Country families to Massachusetts in 1635. Working on the English ancestry of these two settlers, the genealogist John Insley Coddington traced their mother’s Pyssing family and set out the English records that name Joan’s father and grandfather.

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Sources

John’s name and his home come from Burton W. Spear’s Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630, which calls Joan’s father “Richard Pysing of East Myng, Somerset” and her grandfather “John Pysing of Abbotsbury, Somerset”. The places are given here as Spear prints them; Abbotsbury lies in Dorset. Robert Charles Anderson’s Great Migration Newsletter says that Coddington’s article, “The Pyssing Ancestry of the Hulls of New England” (in the Evans Festschrift, pages 44 to 51), “provides English records which identify her father, grandfather and many other relatives”. The name of John’s wife and the date by which Richard had died come from an online genealogy that cites page 49 of the same article.

The name

The surname is written Pysing for John, Pesinge for Richard, and Pyssing, Pysing or Peson for Joan.