Person:John Pierce (79)

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John Pierce
b.27 Oct 1667 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.27 Jan 1743/44 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 3 Oct 1661
  1. Thomas Pierce1662 -
  2. Mary Pierce1664/65 -
  3. John Pierce1667 - 1743/44
  4. Robert Pierce1671 - Bef 1673
  5. Robert Pierce1673 -
  6. Samuel Pierce1676 -
  7. Sarah Pierce1679 -
  8. Elizabeth Pierce1682 -
  9. Hannah Pierce1685 -
Spouse and Children
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m. 5 Jan 1692/93
  1. Abigail Pierce1694 -
  2. Mary Pierce1696 - 1759
  3. Sarah Pierce1698 - 1747
  4. Anne Pierce1700/01 - 1701
  5. Samuel Pierce1702 -
  6. Anne Pierce1704/05 - 1754
  7. John Pierce1707 - 1778
  8. Hannah Pierce1709 - 1757
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Facts and Events
Name John Pierce
Gender Male
Birth[1] 27 Oct 1667 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Christening[2] 29 Dec 1667 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 5 Jan 1692/93 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Abigail Thompson
Death[3] 27 Jan 1743/44 Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
References
  1. ↑ 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)
    p. 10, 11.

    1667.
    John the Son of Thomas Pierce was Born the 27th (8 mo:) 1667.
    1668.
    John the Son of Thomas Peirce Born 27 : 8 : 68.
    [Note: In old-styles dates, the eighth month is October. More info may be found here.]
    [Note: the coincidence of identical dates suggest these refer to a single event (also lack of a second baptism and lack of death record), one having the year recorded wrong. The baptism suggests the 1668 one is wrong. Unfortunately, the 1668 is commonly used in the secondary literature (e.g., Source:Locke, John Goodwin. Book of the Lockes; Source:Bates, George E. Bates-Breed Ancestry, and others. Source:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England and Source:Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Peirce Genealogy : Being the Record of the Posterity of John Pers, an Early Inhabitant of Watertown, in New England, Who both report 26 Oct 1668, apparently, based on publication date, Pierce copying Savage's error?) None of these sources show two sons named John, they simply do not report the 1667 date?]

  2. ↑ First Church (Dorchester, Massachusetts). Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734. (Boston, Massachusetts: G. H. Ellis, 1891)
    p. 176.

    John ye Sonne of Thomas Peirce baptized ye 29 (10) 67 being about 2 months old.

  3. ↑ 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)
    p. 139.

    1743.
    Mr. John Pierce Died Janr. 27th 1743/4 in the 77th year of his Age.
    [Age 76, birth in the year before 27 Jan 1667/68, i.e., about 1667.]

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