Thomas Pierce

Sources

1. Ancestral File (TM)

Links

• http://gw.geneanet.org/ottopalfenier?lang=en;templ=mobile;p=thomas;...
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• 'Peirce genealogy : being the record of the posterity of John Pers, an early inhabitant of Watertown, in New England ... with notes on the history of other families of Peirce, Pierce, Pearce, etc. (1880)
• http://archive.org/details/peircegenealogyb00pier
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• 1. DANIEL PEIRCE, blacksmith, the founder of the Peirce family of Newbury, Mass., came from Ipswich, Suffolk County, England, in the Elizabeth, in 1634, at the age of twenty-three years. He first settled in Watertown, Mass., of which town he was a proprietor, in February, 1636-7. He was made freeman May 2, 1638, and removed to Newbury the same year. His four lots of land in Watertown were sold. John Prestcott purchased his homestall of three acres, bounded N. and E. by highway (Camb. road); S. by R. Browne; W. by R. Beers. Bond, p.. 1012, says he was "of Ipswich." Coffin, p. 314, says "came from London to Watertown."
• In Newbury he was an influential citizen, selectman and Justice of the Peace.
• He was b. 1611; m. in England Sarah , who d. July 17, 1654; in. 2nd, Dec. 26, 1654, Mrs. Ann Millward, who d. s. p., Nov. 27, 1690. He d. Nov. 27, 1677. Children:— ....
• 2. Col. DANIEL PEIRCE (Daniel), b. May 15, 1642; m. Dec. 5, 1660, Elizabeth Millward, b. 1644, d. Dec. 9, 1709.
• Col. Daniel Peirce was prominent in the civil, ecclesiastical, and military affairs of Newbury. Like his father, he supported the Rev. Thomas Parker in the church troubles, in 1665-1672. At a county court held Mar. 30, 1686, Captain Daniel Peirce, and others, are commissioned to be magistrates by the court. Oct. 21, 1686, the committee chosen to divide and lay out the common lands were Captain Daniel Peirce and others. Dec. 1, 1686, Captain Daniel Peirce and Captain Stephen Greenleaf, senior, were added to the deacons as overseers of the poor. March, 1690, the committee of Newbury appoint the house of Mr. Abraham Merrill to be a garrison house and request him with all convenient speed to fortify his house.
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• Daniel Peirce captain. Captains Peirce, Noyes, Greenleaf, and lieutenant Moores, with the rest of the gentlemen of Newbury, whose assistance, next under God, was the means of the preservation of our towns of Salisbury and Amesbury in the day of our distress by the assaults of the enemy. Oct. 18, 1700, Voted that a pew be built for the minister's wife by the pulpit stairs, in the new meeting house, that Col. Daniel Peirce should have the first choice for a pew. Mayor Thos. Noyes shall have the next choice, and that Colonel Peirce, Esq. and Tristram Coffin, Esq. be impowered to procure a bell of about 400 pounds weight.
• Col. Daniel was Deputy to the General-Court in 1682 and 1683. A member of the Council of Safety in the year of 1689. Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Essex, 1693-1708. Representative under the new charter of 1692-1703.
  • Gravestone Epitaph.
    • Here lies interred a soul indeed,
    • Whom few or none excelled;
    • In grace if any his exceed.
    • He'll be unparalleled.
• He d. Apr. 22, 1704. Children:—
  • 7. Daniel, b. Dec. 20. 1663 ; m. Joanna
  • 8. Anne, b. May 22, 1666; m. Simeon Wainwright.
  • 9. Benjamin, b. Feb. 20, 1668; m. Lydia .
  • 10. Joshua, b. Oct. 16, 1671 ; in. Joanna Gerrish.
  • ' 11. Thomas, b. May, 1674; m. Mehitable Frost.
  • 12. Martha, b. Feb. 26, 1676; m. Nov. 2, 1702, William Johnson, b. May 12, 1678-9. Ch. Elizabeth, b. Aug. 12, 1703; Martha, b. Nov. 17, 1704, d. Oct. 17, 1717; William, b. May 13, 1706, m. Betsey Peirce ; Mary, b. Sept. 14, 1708; d. infant; Mary, b. Oct. 22, 1709 ; Moses, b. Aug. 9, 1711; Nicholas, b. May 19, 1714; Elizabeth, b. May 19, 1714.
  • 13. Sarah, b. Oct. 3, 1679; m. Sept. 21, 1721, Jonathan Winslow of Boston. Ch. Jonathan, b. Mar. 5, 1725; Joshua, b. Jan. 23, 1726; Sarah, b. Aug. 2, 1722.
  • 14. George, b. Mar. 5, 1682; m. Elizabeth Langdon and Mary Hunking.
  • 15. Mary, b. Apr. 14, 1685.
  • 16. John, b. Oct. 16, 1687.
  • 17. Katherine, b. Sept. 18, 1690.
• http://archive.org/stream/peircegenealogyb00pier#page/235/mode/1up
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• ' 11. THOMAS PEIRCE (Daniel, Daniel), b. May, 1674; m. Jan. 5, 1697, Mehitable Frost. Res. Newbury. Children :—
  • 47. John, b. Nov. 5, 1698. 49. Sarah, b. July 14, 1704.
  • 48. Mary, b. June 4, 1702. 50. Hannah, b. Jane 9, 1706.
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• 'Pierce genealogy : being the record of the posterity of Thomas Pierce, an early inhabitant of Charlestown, and afterwards Charlestown village (Woburn), in New England, with wills, inventories, biographical sketches, etc. (1882)
• http://archive.org/details/piercegenealogyb00pier
• http://archive.org/stream/piercegenealogyb00pier#page/n19/mode/1up
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• DANIEL, Watertown and Newbury, blacksmith, came in the Elizabeth, from Ipswich, Suffolk County (called of London by Coffin in History of Newbury, p. 314), in 1634, aged 23 ; freeman May 2, 1638, by wife Sarah had Daniel, b. May 15, 1642 ; Joshua, b. May 15, 1643 ; Martha, b. Feb. 14, 1648. He sw. fidel. 1652, and m. 2nd, Dec. 26, 1654, Ann (Goodale), wid. of Thomas Milward, and d. leav. good est. Nov. 27, 1677. His wid. d. Nov. 27, 1690, and wife's dau. (not his dau. as Savage says) Rebecca Milward m. a Thorpe. — Gen. Reg., Vol. XXIX, No. 115.
• DANIEL, Newbury, s. of Daniel, same, by wife Elizabeth, had Daniel, b. Dec. 20, 1663; Anne, b. May 22, 1666 ; Benjamin, b. Feb. 20, 1668-9 ; Joshua, b. Oct, 16, 1671 ; 'Thomas, b. May, 1674' ; Martha, b. Feb. 26, 1676-7 ; Sarah, b. Oct. 3, 1679 ; George, b. March 5, 1682-3 ; Mary, b. April 14, 1685 ; John, b. Oct. 16, 1687 ; Katherine, b. Sept. 18, 1690; was a Captain, Rep. 1682-3, of the Council of Safety on the Rev. 1689, Col. of one of the Essex Regts., Rep. under the new Charter in the import, yr. 1692, and d. April 22, 1704, accord, to his gr. Stone, and not as Farmer, Savage and Hutchinson say, viz. (Jan. 22, and April 4), Gen. Beg. Vol. XXIV., No. 115. His wid. d. Dec. 9, 1709, and his s. Daniel, and his wf. Joanna and dau. Joanna all d. 1690. Savage is in error about his dau. Joanna, he had none — and also the date of his wf.'s death (1690), for he d. 1704, and men. in will his "loving wf. Elizabeth."
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