Joan “Jane” Pierce

William Peirce and Joan, perhaps Phippen, were the parents of 3 known children: Jane, William and Thomas Pierce. He remarried. (?)

Children

From http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/pierce/6608/

1. William PIERCE was born Abt 1603, and died before 1609. ?
2. Jane (Joan) PIERCE was born 1605. She married John ROLFE 1619 in James City, Virginia, son of John ROLFE and Dorothea MASON. He was born 6 MAY 1585 in Heacham, Norfolk, England, and died 22 MAR 1621 in James City, Virginia.
3. Thomas PIERCE was born Abt 1607. He was NOT the # Thomas PIERCE was born Abt 1607. He was NOT the Thomas Pierce who and died 22 MAR 1622 in Henrico who died 22 MAR 1621 / 2

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Boddie, Colonial Surry, p50, says that wife Joan Pierce came to VA on the "Blessing"quot; in 1610. She was listed as a survivor in the muster taken after the 1622 Indian massacre. Cf. Hotten, Lists of Emigrants to America - 1600 - 1700, p224. She was also with Captain Pierce on a mission to London in 1629. She died shortly afterward in 1630. Boddie, Colonial Surry, p50.

Jone Pierce, his wife, and their children : William, Jone, and Thomas, came to Virginia in 1611 on the Blessing. Jone also brought with her a young niece [SIC: kin, relationship unclear] Cicilly Reynolds, age 10 probably to help care for the younger children.

Capt. Pierce had a home in James City and a plantation on "Mulberry Island."

disambiguation

From The Great Migration Begins

Frederick Clifton Pierce, whose genealogical conclusions are generally of little value, has further muddied the water by claiming that Mr. William Pierce of Ratcliffe and Boston was the same as Captain William Pierce of James City, Virginia [Pierce Genealogy No. IV, Being the Record of the Posterity of Capt. Michael, John and Capt. William Pierce, Who Came to This Country From England (Albany 1889), p. 14]. This William Pierce had wife Jane, which is the origin of the misconception that the Boston William Pierce had a wife of that name. Examination of a modern account of Captain William Pierce of Virginia demonstrates conclusively that he was quite a different man from the shipmaster of New England [Virginia M. Meyer and John Frederick Dorman, eds., Adventurers of Purse and Person, 3rd ed. (Richmond, Virginia, 1987), pp. 475-78].

Sources

• 8a. John Camden Hotten: London, 1874. Reprint by Empire State Book Co., New York. Publish date guessed to be int he 1940's. (in Lady Anne's library). Passengers of the Blessing, 1609 Pierce, Jone, wife of Capt William on the Seaventure. Probably Jane, his daughter, third wife of John Rolfe. link to research and compilation done by Anne Stevens from packrat-pro.com

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