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Joseph Pierce

Also Known As: "Peirce"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Charlestown Village, now, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
Death: before August 13, 1649
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America (“Died in infancy”)
Immediate Family:

Son of Sgt. Thomas Pierce, Jr. and Elizabeth Pierce
Brother of Ensign John Pierce; Deacon Thomas Pierce, III; Elizabeth Whittemore; Joseph Pierce; Stephen Pierce and 5 others

Managed by: Erica Howton
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About Joseph Pierce

Joseph died before 13 August 1649, when another child of the same name was born.

Sources

  • "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NV-M5V : 3 November 2017), Thomas Peirce in entry for Joseph Peirce, 22 Jul 1648; citing Birth, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 859,998.
  • link to James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First New England Settlers Before 1692. PIERCE .... THOMAS, Woburn 1643, may not improb. seem to be s. of the preced. b. in Eng. liv. first at Charlestown, and may have been f. of that Abigail; but at W. had John, b. 7 Mar. 1644, d. prob. soon; Thomas, 21 Jan. 1645; Elizabeth 25 Dec. 1646; Joseph, 22 Sept. 1648, d. soon; Joseph, again, 13 Aug. 1649; Stephen, 16 July 1651; Samuel, 20 Feb. 1654, d. at 2 yrs.; Samuel, again, 7 Apr. 1656; William, 7 Mar. 1658; James, 7 May 1659; and Abigail, 20 Nov. 1660. He was freem. 1677 and 13 Nov. of that yr. sold ld. in Charlestown. Thomas, f. of Stephen, could not be, as the biog. suppos. the same Thomas that d. 7 Oct. 1666, aged 83 yrs.
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Joseph Pierce's Timeline

1648
July 22, 1648
Charlestown Village, now, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America
July 27, 1648
Charlestown, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
1649
August 13, 1649
Age 1
Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Colonial America