Jeremiah Pearce

Jeremiah Pearce

Born: 29 Aug 1695, Bristol, Rhode Island

Died: 22 Jan 1761, Bristol, RI, age 65

Father: Richard Pearce, b. 03 October 1643, Waltham, Abbey, Essex, England; d. 19 July 1720, Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island

Mother: Experience /--?--/

Marriage (1) 16 May 1717, Swansey, Rhode Island

Spouse: Submit CARPENTER, b. 22 June 1693, Swansea, Bristol Co, Mass; d. 9 Feb 1740/1, (47), Swansea.

Children of Jeremiah PEARCE and Submit CARPENTER are:

• Jonathan PEARCE, b. 13 May 1718, Bristol, RI.
• Keziah PEARCE, b. 27 Apr 1722, m. 11 Nov 1742, Swansey, Ezekiel Smith, resided in Swansey.
• Renew PEARCE, b. 12 Sep 1724.
• Tabitha PEARCE, b. 17 Oct 1726.
• Jeremiah PEARCE, b. 2 Jun 1738, Bristol RI.

Marriage (2) 24 Dec 1744, Bristol, RI, Sarah EDDY

Children of Jeremiah PEARCE and Sarah EDDY are:

• George PEARCE, b. 20 Mar 1745, d. 1750.
• Thomas PEARCE, b. 27 Jul 1749, d. 20 Dec 1823, m. 5 Dec Abigail Wardell (b. 1751, d. 10 Mar 1810).

Sources:

Descendants of Peter Percy Generation No. 8

http://genforum.genealogy.com/medieval/messages/2612.html

John Osborne Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, 1968 (first ed. was 1887).

Frederick C. Pierce, Pearce Genealogy being the Record of the Posterity of Richard Pearce, an early inhabitant of Portsmouth, in Rhode Island, 1888, Rockford, IL.

Arnold, James Newell. Rhode Island Vital Extracts, 1636–1850. 21 volumes. Providence, R.I.: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company, 1891–1912. Digitized images from New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.