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References
- ↑ Boston (Massachusetts). Record Commissioners. A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston: Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825. (Boston, Massachusetts: Rockwell and Churchill, city printers, 1890)
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Thomas Pearce was Married unto Mary by Mr Bellingham 3. 8. 1661.
[Note: In old-styles dates, the eighth month is October. More info may be found here.]
- ↑ Trask, William B. "Thomas Pierce, of Dorchester, and Wife Mary", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
Vol. 39, p. 230.
Refutes claim by Source:Locke, John Goodwin. Book of the Lockes, p. 317, that Thomas Pierce marriage Mary Proctor, d/o George Proctor, presenting evidence that his wife was Mary Fry, of Weymouth. The maiden name is not given in the marriage record, but beside wrong age at death, a deed 15 May 1672 where Thomas Pearce, of Dorchester, and Mary his wife, join Nathan Fiske, of Weymouth, and Elizabeth his wife, selling lands recorded to William Fry.
- ↑ Source:Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Peirce Genealogy : Being the Record of the Posterity of John Pers, an Early Inhabitant of Watertown, in New England, Who, p. 250, adds a son Joseph, b. 29 Feb 1686, m. Thankful Weeks. However the birth record in Dorchester on 29 Feb 1686 is for Joseph, the son of Richard Mather (Dorchester Births, p. 32), and no birth of Joseph Pierce is found. Likewise, a baptism for Joseph Mather (Dorchester Church Records p. 198), but no baptism for Joseph Pierce is found. The date 29 Feb 1686, leap day, can only be 29 Feb 1685/86, and hence is only eight months after the birth of Hannah in Jun 1685, creating doubts about this being the proper family for Joseph. The marriage to Thankful Weeks occurs in Boston 23 Nov 1721 (Boston Marriages, p. 1:102), which is quite a long time, about 15 years, after the purported Joseph would have reached marrying age. There are other Joseph Pierces closer in age to Thankful (b. 1699, Dorchester Births, p. 43) including one born in Boston that should be investigated, and unless other evidence can be found, it does not appear Thomas had a son Joseph (no will is presented by Pierce, etc.)
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