♂Richard Pesinge

Richard Pesinge was an Englishman of the 1500s and the father of Joan Pyssing, who married Thomas Hull at Crewkerne, in Somerset, on 11 January 1572/3. He was the eleventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Joan Pyssing. He is said to have lived in Somerset. His wife was named Margery; her surname is not known.

Richard’s name survives because two of his grandsons crossed the Atlantic. Joan’s sons George and Joseph Hull both settled in New England, and Joseph Hull^W, a clergyman, brought more than a hundred people from Somerset and Dorset out of Weymouth in 1635. The genealogist John Insley Coddington, working on the English ancestry of these two settlers, traced their mother’s Pyssing family, and his article “The Pyssing Ancestry of the Hulls of New England” set out the English records that name Joan’s father and grandfather.

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That Joan was the daughter of Richard Pesinge and his wife Margery comes from a Hull family-society typescript, which follows Coddington’s article in the Evans Festschrift (pages 44 to 51). Robert Charles Anderson’s Great Migration Newsletter says that Coddington “provides English records which identify her father, grandfather and many other relatives”, and his Great Migration Begins (page 1042) cites the same article for Joan (Pyssing) Hull as the mother of George Hull.

His name and home

The surname is written Pesinge for Richard, and Pyssing, Pysing or Peson for his daughter. Burton W. Spear’s Search for the Passengers of the Mary & John 1630 calls him “Richard Pysing of East Myng, Somerset” and names Joan’s grandfather as “John Pysing of Abbotsbury, Somerset”. The places are given here as Spear prints them; Abbotsbury lies in Dorset.