Person:Mary Pierce (55)

Mary Pierce

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m. 16 Apr 1697

Facts and Events

Name^[1]^[2]	Mary Pierce
Gender	Female
Birth^[2]	16 Nov 1697	Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States
Death^[3]	1718	Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Pierce genealogy, no. IV: being the record of the posterity of Capt. Michael, John and Capt. William Pierce. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1963)
p. 50.

Children of Ephraim Pierce and Mary Low: 4) Mary, b. 16 Nov 1697, m. 14 Jan 1723 Benjamin Norton.
[Note: This marriage is probably wrong. See note.]
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 Rounds, H. L. Peter. Vital records of Swansea, Massachusetts to 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1992)
p. 14.

Mary the daughter of Ephraim Peirce and Mary his wife was Borne the 16th day of November 1697.
↑ Pierce says on p. 50 that this Mary Pierce m. Benjamin Norton. By all appearances, Pierce forgot that on p. 40, a different Mary Pierce of Swansey is said to "m. --- Norton" based on the will of that Mary's father. While two cousins could have both married men named Norton, it is far more likely Pierce is confused. A website says this Mary married Thomas Seamans of Swansea. Records show Thomas and Mary had a daughter Mary in 1717 and Thomas remarried in 1718 which is presumably the source for the death in 1718 shown here, though proof of the identity of Thomas Seamans first wife has yet to be found.