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Joseph Pleasants was the son of Martha Cocke and and Joseph Pleasants. He married first Sarah Goode, daughter of Joseph Goode, by 2 July 1726. Valentine Papers II, p. 1192. He was disowned by the Quakers for marrying out of Unity. On 5 Aug. 1732 he presented a paper to Henrico Monthly Meeting “condemning his eveil in taking a wife, not amongst friends,” and was readmitted. Ibid., p. 1194. He later married Elizabeth Woodson, daughter of John Woodson and Judith Tarleton. John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, 1607-1624/25, Vol. 1, p. 135-136 (Baltimore, 2004).
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