Person:Richard Pearce (4)

Richard Pearce

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m. 5 May 1642

Facts and Events

Name	Richard Pearce
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]^[2]	Est 1615	Essex, Englandprobably
Marriage	5 May 1642	Waltham Abbey, Essex, Englandto Susannah Wright
Will^[1]	22 Apr 1677
Death^[1]	Bet Apr 1677 and Oct 1678	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Probate^[1]	28 Oct 1678	Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 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)
p. 38.

Pierce estimates his birth year as 1615.

'His will was drawn April 23, 1677 [the transcribed will says 'this two and twenty daye of April ...'], and was proved in Portsmouth Oct. 28, 1678. His son Richard was executor and he calls him his "eledest son." '

Note that while the author describes a number of documents from Richard's time in Portsmouth, which are presumed to be reliable references, the ancestry the author has presented on page 36 is not considered reliable (see notes on page Person:Richard Pearce (6)). Richard's parents are unknown.
↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
484(1930):433.

"That there were Pierces at Waltham Abbey in the middle of the seventeenth century also appears from the parish registers; and it seems more likely that the Richard Pierce who married Susanna Wright in 1642 [in Waltham Abbey, Essex] and is found a few years later at Portsmouth, R. I., was a native of Waltham Abbey or one of the neighboring parishes than that he came from the distant Bristol in Gloucestershire, on the other side of England.--Editors."