John Pancoast was born in England ca. 1635. Pancoast was also spelled Pankhurst in early records. John Pancoast was the son of Joseph Pancoast and grandson of Rev. Samuel Pancoast of Ashton. John Pancoast was first married in England to Elizabeth. He married a second wife, Ann Snowden, who died in 1682. In 1680 they migrated to the colonial United States and settled in New Jersey. John married a third wife, Jane Chapman in 1689. He died in 1694 in New Jersey. He and his descendants were among the earliest settlers in New Jersey.

Rev. Henry Hall (1676-1622) immigrated from England to Anne Arundel County, Maryland in 1698, and married widow Mary Duval in 1702. Descendants lived in Maryland, New Jersey, New York, New England, California and elsewhere.