Person:John Peirce (3)
John Peirce
b.Cal 1588
d.19 Aug 1661 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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  • H.  John PeirceCal 1588 - 1661
  • W.  Elizabeth Trull1590 - Bet 1666/67 & 1667
m. 17 Apr 1610
  1. Anthony Peirce1611 - 1678
  2. Hester Peirce1612 - 1694
  3. William Peirce1613/14 - 1615
  4. Barbara Peirce1615/16 - Aft 1637
  5. John Peirce1617/18 -
  6. Elizabeth Peirce1619/20 - Bef 1624
  7. Robert Peirce1621 - 1706
  8. Elizabeth Peirce1624 - Bef 1665
  9. Mary Peirce1625 - 1703/04
  10. Judith Peirce1627/28 - Bef 1650
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Name John Peirce
Alt Name John Pierce
Alt Name John Pers
Alt Name John Pearse
Gender Male
Birth[2] Cal 1588 Aged 49 on 8 Apr 1637
Marriage 17 Apr 1610 Norwich, Norfolk, EnglandSt. Edmund
to Elizabeth Trull
Occupation[1] Weaver
Death[2] 19 Aug 1661 Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ Pierce, John B. The Identity of John Pers of Watertown. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Apr 1957)
    111:158-59.

    So far as the present writer is aware no adequate report has been published concerning the English ancestry of John1 Pers of Watertown.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Hatcher, Patricia Law. The Peirce Family of Norwich, England, and Watertown, Massachusetts. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jul 2010)
    84:181-83.

    John1 Peirce was born about 1588 (emigration record), probably in or near Norwich, co. Norfolk, England, and died in Watertown, Massachusetts, 19 August 1661. … John was in New England in 1636, returned to Norwich, and immigrated again to New England in 1637 with his wife and four children. He was made a freeman in March 1637/8.

  3.   Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3:428.

    John Pierce, Watertown, freem. Mar. 1638, a man of very good est. project. settlem. at Sudbury and Lancaster, d. 19 Aug. 1661; and his will of 4 Mar. 1658 was pro. 1 Oct. foll. In it he provides for w. Eliz., eldest s. Anthony, and other childr. without naming; but his wid. in her will of 15 Mar. 1667, in wh. mo. she d. aged 79, supplies the defic. naming ch. Anthony, John, Robert, Esther Morse, w. of Joseph, Mary Coldam, whose h. is not of my acquaint. beside gr.childr. Mary Ball, and ano. Ball, Esther Morse, and the childr. of Anthony and Robert. He had also d. Eliz. wh. m. 30 Jan. 1645, Francis Wyman, but she d. bef. her f.

  4.   Pierce, Frederic Beech, and Frederick Clifton Pierce. Pierce genealogy: being the record of the posterity of Thomas Pierce, an early inhabitant of Charlestown and afterwards Charlestown Village (Woburn), in New England, with wills, inventories, biographical sketches, etc. (Boston, Massachusetts: Frederic Beech Pierce (printed by J. S. Wesby & Son), 1882)
    Page xiv, 1882.
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