Thomas Newcomb Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 11 Sep 1804 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 1
Baptism:
Death: 20 Mar 1876 - Foxborough, Massachusetts 2
Burial:
Cause of Death: pneumonia
Parents
Father: Samuel Pierce Jr (1763-1829)
Mother: Grace Newcomb (1765-1833)
Spouses and Children
1. Emeline Field (1825 - 16 Apr 1887)
Marriage: 2 Jun 1846 - Foxborough, Massachusetts 3
Status:
Children:
1. William A Pierce (1844- )
2. Charles Anson Pierce (1849- )
3. Abby F Pierce (1852- )
4. Anna N Pierce (1857- )
5. Mary L Pierce (1860- )
6. Lucy Emeline Pierce (1846-1849)
2. *Lucy F Fuller (10 Oct 1805 - 10 Mar 1845)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Charles Edwin Pierce (1843-1845)
Notes
General:
1846 widowed farmer, FoxboroMedical:
age 70-4-8Marriage Notes (Emeline Field)
married
farmer
b Wellfleet, res Foxboro
s/o Samuel & Grace, both of Wellfleet 2
1850, 1860 US census, Foxboro
1855, 1865 Mass. census, Foxboro
Uriah L Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1804 - (Harwich, Massachusetts)
Baptism:
Death: 1874 - (Orleans, Massachusetts)
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Esther Eldredge (Est 1806 - )
Marriage: 1823
Status:
Children:
1. Samuel L Pierce (1824- ) 4
2. Delilah Pierce (1827- ) 4
3. Uriah L Pierce (1829- ) 4
4. Benjamin F Pierce (1834- ) 4
5. Esther F Pierce (1836- ) 4
6. Joseph E Pierce (1838- ) 4
Uriah L Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 22 Aug 1829 - Orleans, Massachusetts 4
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Uriah L Pierce (1804-1874)
Mother: Esther Eldredge (Est 1806- )
Wallace Irving Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Oct 1920 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 5
Baptism:
Death: 7 Mar 2011 - Duval, Florida 6
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Sylvanus Rich Pierce Jr (1890-1971)
Mother: Jennie May Atwood (1899-1956) 7
Notes
General:
m Rose Marie Kuhn, 18 jul 1942 Duval Florida
Rose: 8 sep 1921- 15 jan 1990 Duval Fl 6
Ward L Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1856 - Lebanon, Maine
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Clara W Atkins (1861 - )
Marriage: 20 Mar 1884 - Boston, Massachusetts 8
Status:
Notes
General:
s/o Luke & Caroline
1884 salesman, Boston
Captain Warren Emerson Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 20 Sep 1834 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 10
Baptism:
Death: 30 Jan 1898 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 11
Burial:
Cause of Death: Bright's Kidneys 11
Parents
Father: Captain Israel R Pierce (1807-1888) 12
Mother: Bethiah Swett (1808-1869) 13
Spouses and Children
1. *Anna Hopkins (27 Apr 1836 - 5 May 1913) 14
Marriage: 8 Mar 1858 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 15
Status:
Children:
1. Abbott Lawrence Pierce (1860- )
2. Linda Anna Pierce (1863-After 1920)
3. Warren Lincoln Pierce (1865- ) 16
4. George A Pierce (1867-1868) 17
5. George Allen Pierce (1870-1889) 18
6. Nellie Emerson Pierce (1873-1945) 19
7. Emma Higgins Pierce (1876-1898) 20
8. Pierce (1875- )
Notes
General:
1860, 1863, 1865, 1867, 1870, 1876 seaman/mariner, Wellfleet
1873, 1875, 1876 master mariner, Wellfleet
Warren Lincoln Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 31 Jul 1865 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 16
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Warren Emerson Pierce (1834-1898) 9
Mother: Anna Hopkins (1836-1913) 14
Warren Winfield Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 3 Oct 1906 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 21
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Melzar Green Pierce (1875-1961) 22
Mother: Mary Julia Silver (1880- ) 23
Washington Franklin Pierce
Sex: M
AKA: Washington Franklin Peirce 25
Washington Franklin Pierce
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Mar 1835 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 25
Baptism:
Death: 31 Jan 1925 - Brockton, Massachusetts 26
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death: valvular heart disease 26
Parents
Father: Samuel Pierce (1795-1841) 27
Mother: Anna Young (1794-1872) 28
Spouses and Children
1. *Mary Ann Smith Daniels (28 Nov 1839 - 11 Oct 1920) 24
Marriage: 7 Feb 1858 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 29
Status:
Children:
1. Franklin Vaughn Pierce (1875-1899) 30
2. Emma Smith Pierce (1857- ) 31
3. Ellen Vaughn Pierce (1878- )
Notes
General:
occupationMedical:
1858 mariner
1875, 1878 merchant, Wellfleet 31
age 89-10-11
brought to Wellfleet
Willard P Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Feb 1866 - Trenton, New Jersey
Baptism:
Death: After 1930 - Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *May Bell Boyington (8 Mar 1873 - After 1930) 32
Marriage: 14 Jul 1888 - Boston, Massachusetts 8
Status:
Children:
1. Willard P Pierce Jr (1889-1893) 33
2. Pierce (1897-Bef 1900)
3. Millie Leavitt Pierce (1898- )
4. Anna V Pierce (1905- )
Notes
General:
s/o William P & MariaMarriage Notes (May Bell Boyington)
1888 engraver, Boston
1900 US census, Boston
32 Harvard St
Willard P Pierce, feb 1866, m 12y, engraver NJ Me Ma
May B Pierce, mar 1873, m 12y, 5/1 ch, Ma Ma Ma
Millie L Pierce, dec 1898, Ma NJ Ma
1913 of Roxbury
1910, 1930 US census, Boston
Willard P Pierce Jr
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1 May 1889 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 33
Baptism:
Death: 2 Jan 1893 - Massachusetts
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Willard P Pierce (1866-After 1930)
Mother: May Bell Boyington (1873-After 1930) 32
Willard P Pierce
Sex: M
AKA: Willie Pierce 34
Individual Information
Birth: 28 Oct 1877 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 34
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: James Oliver Pierce (1850-1906) 35
Mother: Eleanor Augustine Cobb (1850-1926) 36
Captain William Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1591 - Ratcliffe, Middlesex 37
Baptism:
Death: 12 Jul 1641 - Providence Island (now Isla Providencia, Colombia)
Burial: at Sea
Cause of Death: killed by Spaniards
Events
• Alt Birth, , Pearce Hall, York, England in Pearce Hall, York, England
Parents
Father: Richard Pierce (1550- )
Mother: Marguerite Coney (Est 1553- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Bridgett (Est 1600 - After Jan 1647)
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. William Pierce (Est 1624-1661) 38
Notes
General:
Rootsweb sources disagree extensively in just when and where this Capt. Pierce was born. They only agree that he was born in England, before 1600.
By some accoounts, William was son of Azrikim & Martha Pierce, with brothers John the Patentee (perhaps an uncle), Robert, and Capt. Michael.
Note that this is NOT the Capt. William Pierce of Virginia, survivor of the Sea Venture wreck on Bermuda. Also note that the Providence colony of the 1630s (where William Pierce died) is NOT New Providence, Nassau, Bahamas. Though both were important pirate bases, they were separated in time by almost a century. The Puritan's Providence Island is now Isla Providencia, Colombia, and is about 1500 km SSW from New Providence, with Cuba in between.
Boston, Massachusetts lat 42° 21' Nlon -71° 4'
Isla Providencialat 13° 21' N lon -81° 22'
Tortuga, Venezuelalat 6° 19' lon -67° 6'
New Providence, Nassaulat 25° 2' lon -77° 24'
Captain William Pierce in the early history of the colonies was the most celebrated master of ships that came into the waters of New England. He was on very intimate terms with all the leading colonists, and was a warm friend of Winslow and Bradford. He was first noticed in the early records of the colony in 1622, when he was master of the Paragon, the owner of which ship was his treacherous brother [uncle?] John Pierce of London. He sailed to Plymouth in 1623 as Master of the Anne of London, bringing the last lot of passengers to the Pilgrim settlement. He was then a resident of Ratcliffe, parish of Stepney, London, and at that date was about thirty-one years old. In 1624, he came in the Charity, conveying Winslow, with his cattle which were the first brought into New England. In 1625 he was at Plymouth in the Jacob, again bringing Winslow and more cattle.
He made a voyage to Salem in 1629 as Master of the Mayflower (not the Pilgrim ship) and thereafter he was in constant traffic in passengers and merchandise across the Atlantic, and in her he took a company from Holland as far as the Bay on their way to Plymouth; and in the next year, Feb 1630, he came with the Lion from Bristol, England, as a part of Winthrop's fleet, arriving from Bristol at Salem May, 1630. In Winthrop's Journal, under date of Saturday (12th June, 1630), we find the following: "About four in the morning we were near our port. We shot off two pieces of ordnance and sent our skiff to Mr. Pierce, his ship (which lay in the harbour and had been there [blank] days). About an hour after Mr. Allarton came on board us, in a shallop, as he was sailing to Pemaquid." Owing to the destitution at the Bay, he was hurried back for provisions, with which he returned November 22, just as the crisis of the famine had arrived. He also brought sixty passengers, including Roger Williams and his wife Mary.
On November 29, 1631, he came over again in the Lion, with John Elliot and Governor Winthrop's wife. In 1632 he sailed once more to Boston and Plymouth in the Lion, but after carrying Winthrop to Weymouth lost his ship on the Virginia coast, for which place he sailed October 27, 1632.
In 1632, he was one of the one hundred and fifty-one members of the Charlestown Church which removed to Boston. He was admitted freeman May I4, 1634. His wife, Bridget, joined the church February 2, 1632/3; she was perhaps a second wife, as a William Peirce, mariner of Whitechapel, was licensed in 1615 to marry Margaret Gibbs. (Whitechapel and Stepney are adjoining parishes.) In 1634, he owned a house and lot in Boston. He became a Town and Colony official.
April 10, 1633: arrives at Boston Mr. Hodges, one of Mr . Pierce's mates, in a shallop from Virginia; and brings news that Mr. Pierce's ship was cast away on a shoal four miles from Feak Isle, ten leagues to the north of the mouth of Virginia Bay, November 2, about five in the morning, the wind south-west, through the negligence of one of his mates who had the watch, and kept not his lead asounding as he was appointed. There were in ship twenty-eight seamen and ten passengers; they had a shallop and a boat aboard; all who went into the shallop came safe ashore; but the boat sunk by the ship's side, and twelve were drowned - seven seamen and five passengers, and all the goods lost except one hogshead of beaver. Next day the ship was broken to pieces. They were nine days in much distress before they found any English. Plymouth men lost nine hundred weight of beaver and fish. Many others lost beaver, and Mr. Humphrey fish.
April 7, Pierce's letter came to hand at Plymouth. It was dated Virginia, December 25, 1632, and was as follows:
Dear Friends, etc.--The Brint of this fatal Stroke that the Lord has bro't on me and you all, will come to your Ears before this comes to your Hand, it is like; and therefore I shall not need to enlarge. My whole Estate for the most Part is taken away; and yours in a great measure by this and your former Losses [He means by the French and Mr. Allarton]. It is Time to look about us before the Wrath of the Lord brake forth to utter destruction. The Good Lord gave us all Grace to search our Hearts and try our Ways , and turn to the Lord and humble ourselves under his mighty Hand, and seek Atonement etc. Dear Friends, you may know that all your Beaver [is lost], and the books of your accounts are swallowed up in the Sea. But what should I more say? Have we lost our outward Estates; yet a happy loss if our souls may gain; there is yet more in the Lord Jehovah than ever we had in the world. O, that our foolish Hearts could yet be weaned from the Things here below, which are Vanity and Vexation of Spirit; and yet we fools catch after Shadows that fly away and are gone in a moment etc. Thus with my continued Remembrance of you in my poor Desires to the Throne of Grace, beseeching God to renew his Love and Favor to you all in and throu gh the Lord Jesus Christ, both in Spiritual and Temporal Good things, as may be most to the Glory and Praise of his name and your everlasting good. So I rest your afflicted Brother in Christ,
William Pierce.
Capt. Pierce replaced the Lion with the Rebecca, a sixty-ton pinnace, built at Medford, the first transatlantic ship built in the Colonies [rubbish], and he sailed her to London on the 55 day voyage in 1634. Pierce brought the first cotton, and in 1636 brought the first sweet potatoes into New England from the West Indies; he brought fifteen tons, and sold them in Boston at two pence a pound.
In 1634 he was gathering Oldham's corn in the Rebecca, and taking observations in the Narragansett, and the next year he was first in the West Indies, and then later in the ice, rescuing refugees from the Connecticut valley and returning them to Boston.
The bark Desire, 120 tons, was built at Marblehead in the summer of 1636. Capt. William Pierce was the first master, who took Endicott's soldiers to Block Island for the Pequot War. In 1637, he carried supplies from Boston for the soldiers of the Pequot War and acted as tender. In 1638, he sailed between Boston and the West Indies; and it is sad to relate that according to the usage of the times, he took out several Pequod prisoners as bondmen [slaves], along with rum and salt fish, and returned in 7 months with a cargo of negro slaves, cotton, and tobacco from the Puritan colony at Providence, and salt from Tortugas. These were the first negroes to be enslaved in New England, though even then some leading citizens condemned this traffic. And yes, a historian of those days speaks of him as "A godly man, and a most expert mariner!" Doubtless he was a good man, for these things did not trouble men's consciences then. At this time he seems to have presented Winthrop with what the latter calls an "aligartor," an animal which much interested the grave Bostonians. In 1638, he cleared the Desire from London with passengers for Boston.
In 1639, the vessel went from Boston to Gravesend, Kent, England on the Thames River in 23 days, a passage which would even now reflect much credit on such a craft and its captain.
He was author of the first item to come off Cambridge press other than the Freeman's Oath, "An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1639. Calculated for New England, By Mr. Wm. Pierce, Mariner" printed by Stephen Day, 1639.
Capt. Pierce made his last voyage to the Caribbean with a party of disaffected colonists emigrating to Providence. The Desire arrived at Providence on 13 July 1641, just after the Spanish had captured it, and began sailing into a trap when Pierce became suspicious. When the enemy opened upon him with cannon, he sent his people into the hold for safety, retaining on deck with but one man to aid in working the ship. While lying in the caboose watching the sails, the captain and this sailor were fatally wounded by the same shot. The ship headed for home and the dead were buried at sea.
The original owners were in debt to the John Harvard estate. After a court hearing on 1 Oct 1650, the Desire eventually came to be controlled by Capt. Samuel Mayo and his partners.
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The Greene family and its branches: from A.D. 861 to A.D. 1904. Lora Sarah La Mance, Attie A. Stowe - 1904
John put his brother -- so Gen. Ebenezer Pierce styles him -- Captain William Pierce as master of first one and another of his ships. In a letter of 1638, which has been preserved, is this language:
Pope in history says that up to 1640 Capt. William crossed the ocean oftener than any man then moving. He made many voyages between England and Virginia or to the West Indies. Twice he essayed to go to Plymouth, but each time had to put back because of a leaky vessel. This was in 1621 and 1622. In 1623 he came in the Ann, in the Charity in 1624, in an unregistered ship in 1625, in the Mayflower in 1629, and in the Lyon /Lyon's Whelp in 1630, 1631 and 1632, making seven voyages to Plymouth within ten years. He brought a great many of his kindred over in his ships, also Rev. Cotton, Roger Williams and other eminent men.
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Great Migration Begins, vol 3:1472-8
William Pierce, b c 1691 at Ratcliffe, Middlesex
death 13 Jul 1641 Providence Is., (Kupperman reference)
Admitted to Boston ch 1632, Boston freeman 14 May 1634
Wife Bridgitt was admitted to Boston ch 2 Feb 1634, d. aft 14 Jan 1647
Author of first item to come off Cambridge press other than the Freeman's Oath, "An Almanack for the Year of our Lord 1639. Calculated for New England, By Mr. Wm. Pierce, Mariner" printed by Stephen Day, 1639.
Sources:
The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633
Robert Charles Anderson
1995. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Great Migration Study Project.
Page: 3:1472-8
Rev. John Mayo and his Descendants
Jean Mayo-Rodwick
2001
Note: Major relevant sources: the several transcriptions of town and church records by George Ernest Bowman published in The Mayflower Descendant, plus Boston records, Freeman family manuscript at NEHGS, will of Sarah Freeman (widow of Lt. Edmund Freeman), Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
Providence Island, 1630-1641. The other Puritan colony
Karen Ordahl Kupperman
1993. New York: Cambridge University Press
The Pilgrim republic: an historical review of the colony of New Plymouth ...
John Abbot Goodwin.
1888. Boston & New York: Houghton-Mifflin/Riverside Press. pp. 471-3
members.aol.com/dcurtin1/gene/shiplyon.htm
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In 1638, Mr. Glover, an English clergyman, sailed with his wife for Boston, bringing a printing-press and an exceedingly illiterate printer named Stephen Day. Glover died on his voyage, but his widow, who had property, bought a house at Cambridge. There the press was set up by Day, and some printing done, and the first bound work issued in the colonies was issued in 1639, calculated for New Kngland by William "Peirse," mariner, former captain of the "Anne," "Lion," and Mayflower."
(FC Pierce)
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FC Pierce:
CAPTAIN WILLIAM PIERCE.
Children. ?
Edward, b. 1633, d. 1673. Edward Pearse, who Dr. Calamy styles "a most affectionate and useful preacher," was ejected from St. Margaret's, Westminster, when the "Act of Uniformity " took place. He was the author of several practical treatises, the most noted of which is entitled, "The Great Canaan, or a Serious Warning to the Timely and Thorough Preparation for Death," etc., which was frequently distributed at funerals. It has been reprinted about twenty times. He earnestly prayed, in his last illness, that something of his might be useful after his decease. "Which prayer," says Dr. Calamy, "was remarkably answered in the signal success of his little book." He was born in 1633, and died in 1673. There was another Edward Pearse, who was author of " The Conformist's Plea for the Non-Conformists," who has been confounded with the person above mentioned. I take this to be the minister of Cottesbrook, in Northamptonshire; whom the "Plea" really confirmed is apparent from South's "Sermons," Vol. VI, p. 33; from Kennet's Register and Chronicle, p. 755, and from Neale's "History of the Puritans," Vol. IV, p. 508. James, b. and d. in England.
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"The Winthrop Historical Commission and the Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association ... is presently in the process of erecting a historical sign in front of a historical landmark called the "Deane Winthrop House". This sign, in part, involves Captain William Pierce's history. The "Deane Winthrop House" was built between 1637 and 1650. The association which has preserved and maintained the house is called "The Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association". The association believes the original portion of the house house was built by Captain William Pierce. This house is situated on the original land, granted to Captain William Pierce in 1637. Winthrop is a small town less than two square miles situated at the mouth of Boston Harbor. Captain William Pierce also had a house in Boston which once stood near the Old State House on what is now Pierce Alley.
George Desaulniers
The sign reads as follows:
EARLY COLONIAL PURITAN SLAVE PLANTATION
Captain William Pierce, renowned mariner and early Puritan slave trader was allotted this land in 1637. Governor John Winthrop was granted the adjoining plantation, which included most of Winthrop Beach and Point Shirley. He kept Native American slaves on the nearby Governors Island, which is now part of Logan Airport. In his journal dated February 26, 1638, Winthrop wrote that Pierce returned from the West Indies on the Salem ship Desire "and brought some cotton, and tobacco, and Negroes, etc" Later both Capt. Pierce and Gov. Winthrop's plantations were acquired by Governor Winthrop's son Deanne, who also used slave labor. Slavery was essential to the economy in this era. "Marrear", "Primas", and a child named "Robbin" were slaves of African decent whose names appeared in Deane Winthrop's Will of 1702. It is assumed that these slaves were interred in a nearby "Negro Burying Ground" not far from the northerly end of Winthrop Street.
The controversy surrounding the resistance of the sign by the Winthrop Improvement and Historical Association made the headlines in local paper, the pages of the Boston Globe, NPR radio and the 5 PM news. "
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William Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 15 Oct 1768 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 41
Baptism: 11 Jun 1769 - Truro, Massachusetts 42
Death: 25 Feb 1853 - Provincetown, Massachusetts
Burial: in Cemetery #2, Provincetown
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joshua Pierce (Cir 1732- )
Mother: Hepzibah Newcomb (1734- )
Spouses and Children
1. *Sally Pierce (1769 - 6 Nov 1847)
Marriage: 4 Nov 1790 - Boston, Massachusetts
Status:
Children:
1. John Pierce (1791-1831) 43
2. William Pierce (1794-1860)
3. Nabby Brown Pierce (1796-1866) 44
4. Abraham Dyer Pierce (1799- ) 44
William Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 18 Jun 1794 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 45
Baptism:
Death: 22 Jul 1860 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 46
Burial: in Provincetown, Massachusetts
Cause of Death: fits from use of tobacco
Parents
Father: William Pierce (1768-1853) 47
Mother: Sally Pierce (1769-1847)
Spouses and Children
1. *Betsey (1801 - 6 Apr 1845)
Marriage:
Status:
2. Patty Freeman (23 Apr 1802 - 25 Dec 1864)
Marriage: 14 Jun 1856 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 46
Status:
Notes
Medical:
age 65-8
married
laborer
b Provincetown
s/o William & Sally Pierce 46
William Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1600 - England
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain William Pierce (Cir 1573-Cir 1655)
Mother: Joanne (Cir 1580- )
William Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Est 1624 - England
Baptism:
Death: 1661 - Boston, Massachusetts Bay
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain William Pierce (Cir 1591-1641)
Mother: Bridgett (Est 1600-After 1647)
Spouses and Children
1. *Hester Webb (Est 1627 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Notes
General:
FC Pierce (unreliable):
William, b. in England, m. Esther Webb. She was the daughter of Richard Webb, who died in Boston in July, 1659. In his will he says, I give to Esther Pearce, and mentions her two children, Moses and Esther. He d. January, 1661. Res. Boston, Mass.
The administration of the estate of William Pierce, mariner of Boston, was granted to his widow, Esther Pierce, 31st January, 1661. He left four sons and one daughter, most of them being very small. The estate was divided 3d June, 1672, by agreement of Esther Pierce, William Pierce, Nathaniel Pierce, Roger Clapp, guardian to Moses Pierce, Joseph Webb, guardian to Ebenezer Pierce, Phineas Upham, guardian to Esther Pierce. The estate was valued at .£228, and approved by John Martin, Joseph Webb. The house and land on the "backside of Boston," being worth ^180. Ch.- Esther, b. . She d. unm. In 1679, Oct. 30th, she sold land to Nathaniel Pierce of Boston, bounded on the south with the alley leading into the land of Esther Pierce, the elder; on the east with land of Ebenezer Pierce. The witnesses were Nathaniel Thayer, Moses Pierce and Esther Pierce. At this time she was called a spinster and of Boston. William, b. ;m. Elizabeth . They resided in Boston a short time, and a son, William, was born, and died Jan. 4, 1661. They subsequently removed to Newport, R. I. From the Boston records, we learn that William Pierce of Newport, R. I., eldest son of William Pierce of Boston, mariner, deceased, and his wife, Elizabeth, release to Thomas Carter of Boston, his interest in land in Boston. The father died intestate leaving Esther his relict widow and five children his estate. The estate was afterward divided. This is dated 14th Dec., 1688, and is witnessed by Christian Peirse. William, Jr. resided in Boston, and later Newport, R. I. Nathaniel, b. ;m. Christian Stoddard; res. Boston. She was b. Mar. 22, 1657; the dau. of Anthony Stoddard. Moses, a Moses Pierce m. Eliza, and had Moses, b. May 23, 1709; John, b. Mar. 27. 1713; Elizabeth, b. Nov. 11, 1714; John, b. Mar. 4, 1726; Edward, b. Oct. 10, 1728; Elizabeth, b. Mar. 30, 1730; Edward, b. Apr. 27, 1734. Ebenezer, b. Mar. 16, 1661, unm., d. before. As per agreement of William, his brother, "Ebenezer died intestate and without issue." Mary. Martha, b. May 16, 1659, both d. young. Mary, b. Dec. 10, 1656, d. young.
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Captain William Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: Cir 1573 - Dorset, England
Baptism:
Death: Cir 1655 - Mulberry Island, Virginia
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Spouses and Children
1. *Joanne (Cir 1580 - )
Marriage:
Status:
Children:
1. Joanne Pierce (Cir 1600-1620)
2. William Pierce (Est 1600- )
3. Thomas Pierce (Est 1600- )
Notes
General:
**Note that this is not the Capt. William Pierce of Boston, who died in 1641 at Providence Island.**Marriage Notes (Joanne)
William Pierce was an Ancient Planter, coming on the Sea Venture with 150 other settlers who were stranded in Bermuda for 10 months after the Sea Venture broke up on the rocks during a hurricane 1609-1610. His wife, Joanne, and his daughter, Joanne (b. c1600) arrived in VA on the Blessing in 1609. Nine ships had left England at the same time in the "Third Supply" (of people and goods.) John Rolfe was also aboard the Sea Venture with his 1st wife who died shortly after arriving in VA. He then married Pocahontas who died in England, in 1617, after several years of marriage. Rolfe then married Joanne Pierce, daughter of William Pierce. Wm Pierce served the colony in many leadership capacities and went back to England on occasion. He had thousands of acres of land and lived on Mulberry Island, Warwick Co. (now Ft. Eustis near Newport News, VA.) Exactly when he died is unknown, but it was probably around 1655. 50
from FC Pierce, who confused the William Pierces of Boston and Virginia:
The muster of Capt. Wm. Pierce, June 23, 1624. He then resided in James city, Virginia. It was as follows:
Capt. Wm. Pierce came in "Sea Venture."
Mrs. Jane Pierce, his wife, in the "Blessings."
Servants.
Thomas Smith, æ 17 years, in the "Abigaill."
Henry Bradford, æ. 35 years, in the "Abigaill."
Esther Ederife, a maid-servant, in the " Jonathan."
Angelo, a negro woman, in the "Treasurer."
The rest of Capt. William's servants, provisions, armes, munition, etc., are at Mulberry Island.
The muster of the inhabitants at Mulberry Island, Virginia, taken June 25, 1624:
The Muster Of Capt. Wm. Pierce's Servants.
Richard Attkins, æ. 24, came in "London Marchamst."
Abigail, his wife, came in " Abigaill."
Wm. Barker, æ. 20, came in "Abigaill."
Robert Ashton, æ. 29, came in the " Treasurer."
Hugh Wing, æ. 30, came in "George," 1620.
Robert Lathoun, æ. 20, came in "George," 1620.
Richard Aldon, æ. 19, came in "George," 1620.
Thomas Wood, æ. 30, came in " George," 1620.
Roger Ruce, came in "Charles."
Alexander Gill, æ. 20, came in "Bonny Bess."
Samuel Morris, æ. 20, came in "Abigaill."
Thomas Rose, æ. 35, came in "Jonathan."
Robert Hedges, æ. 40, came in the ___.
John Virgo, came in "Treasurer."
Susan, his wife, in the same ship.
John Gatter, came in "George," 1620.
William Richardson, came in "Edwine."
Richard Fine, came in "Neptune."
John Nowell, came in "Margaret and Jane."
Richard Downes, came in "Jonathan."
John Cranich, came in "Marygold."
Percevall Wood, came in "George."
Ann, his wife, came in "George."
William Raymont, came in "Neptune."
William Bullock, came in "Jonathan."
Anthony Baram, came in "Abigail."
Elizabeth, his wife, came in "William and Thomas."
Thomas Harwood, came in "Margaret and Jane," 1622.
Grace, his wife, came in "George."
Thomas Read, æ. 65 years.
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William A Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 1844 - Massachusetts
Baptism:
Death:
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Thomas Newcomb Pierce (1804-1876)
Mother: Emeline Field (1825-1887)
William Chester Pierce
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth: 19 Sep 1863 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 53
Baptism:
Death: 16 Feb 1941 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 54
Burial: in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Wellfleet
Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Captain Benjamin Higgins Swett Pierce (1832-1910) 55
Mother: Ruth Gould Freeman (1836-1921) 56
Notes
Medical:
age 77-4-28
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37. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Great Migration Study Project.), 3:1472-8.
38. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins. Immigrants to New England 1620-1633 (1995. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Great Migration Study Project.), 3:1472-8. .... Frederick Clifton Pierce, Pierce Genealogy, No. 4: being the records of the posterity of Capt. Michael, John and Capt. William Pierce, who came to this country from England (1889. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons [online]). GMB trashes research of Frederick Clifton Pierce as "generally of little value," "one of his usual confused productions."
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54. Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1941.
55. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lots 41. Benjamin H. S. & Ruth G. Pierce family. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:152. The children of Israel and Bethiah Pierce.
56. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association, Wellfleet, Truro & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions, section 9. Pleasant Hill and Oakdale Cemeteries, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (1986. Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Wellfleet Historical Society and Rich Family Association), lots 41. Benjamin H. S. & Ruth G. Pierce family. .... Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:170. The children of Joseph and Serviah Freeman.