Person:Elizabeth Peirce (15)

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Name Elizabeth Peirce
Alt Name[1] Elizabeth Percy
Gender Female
Marriage 17 Nov 1717 Nantucket, Massachusetts, United Statesto John Gorton

The name, although written Peirce in the marriage docket at Narragansett, was written by herself Percy, and according to the record of her son John, "Elizabeth Percy, of Northumberland and Lancaster Counties, granddaughter of Jocelyn Percy, Eleventh Earl of Northumberland."

References
  1. Gorton, Adelos. The Life and Times of Samuel Gorton: the Founders and the Founding of the Republic, a Section of Early United States History, and a History of the Colony of Providence and Rhode Island Plantations in the Narragansett Indian Country, Now the State of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 : With a Genealogy of Samuel Gortons's Descendants to the Present Time, Compiled from Various Accounts, Histories, Letters, and Published and Unpublished Records. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: George S. Ferguson, 1907)
    p. 169.