Person:Mary Pearce (2)

Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Pearce genealogy: being the record of the posterity of Richard Pearce, an early inhabitant of Portsmouth, in Rhode Island, who came from England, and whose genealogy is traced back to 972. (Rockford, Illinois: unknown, 1888)
43.

Mary Pearce, d/o Ensign John Pearce and Mary Tallman, m John Reed, Jr. They had 12 children b. between Nov. 19, 1690, and Sept. 27, 1715. died 25 Aug 1735.
[Note: this death date is found on p. 25 of Freetown records and belongs to "Susanna Read the wife of John Read the second", so certainly not Mary who death is recorded in 1726. Perhaps a different John Read (John Read m. 1709 Susanna Round in Swansea), or a second wife (no such marriage found)?]
↑ Freetown (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Births, marriage intentions, and deaths, 1686-1793. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1973)
p. 20.

Mary Read the wife of John Read the father of the above written children deceased the 6" day of May 1726 about twelve a clock of sd day. Entered the 8" of 3d month.
↑ Estimated birth of 1670 based on first child b. Nov 1690 per Source:Pearce genealogy : being the record of the posterity of Richard Pearce, an early inhabitant of Portsmouth, in Rhode Island, who came from England, and whose genealogy, p. 43.