BIRTH | Mary was born circa 1666 in Hull, Plymouth co., MA[6,12] |
DEATH & BURIAL | She died in Boston, Suffolk co., MA on 18 December 1744; she was 78[6,12]. She is buried in Copp's Hill Cemetery in Boston, Suffolk co., MA. Her gravestone reads: "Here lyes ye Body of Mrs. Mary Pierce wife of Mr. Jonathan Pierce of Charlestown, aged 81 years, died dec. ye 18th 1744." |
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP & LEGAL MENTION | Mary was a formidable woman. She "own. cov't 12 (6) 1688" in Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA according to Wyman[30], was granted administration of her husband's estate in 1722 and was admitted to the church at Charlestown on 30 October 1726, "ancilla nostra"[31]. |
MARRIAGE | On 4d:10m(December):1683 when Mary was 17, she married Jonathon PIERCE, son of Samuel PIERCE & Mary [surname not known], in Charlestown, Suffolk co., MA[6,12,19,22,32,33,34,35,36,37] by Wor. Tho. Danforth, Esq. Deputy Governor. |
CHILDREN (surnamed PIERCE) |
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i. | Mary PIERCE | Please see her own page. |
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ii. | Samuel PIERCE |
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iii. | Jonathon1 PIERCE |
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iv. | Jonathon2 PIERCE |
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v. | Thomas PIERCE |
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vi. | Joseph PIERCE |
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vii. | Martha PIERCE |
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viii. | Benjamin PIERCE |
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ix. | Sarah PIERCE |
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x. | Elizabeth PIERCE |
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xi. | Isaac PIERCE |
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xii. | John PIERCE |
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xiii. | Jacob PIERCE |
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xiv. | Stephen PIERCE |
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GENERATION | Great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G7) Grandfather |
FAMILY NUMBER | 935 |
SOURCES |
1. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+,
(Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+),
[NEHGR], 142:394. 2. A Volume Relating to the Early History of Boston Containing the Aspinwall Notarial Records from 1644 to 1651, in Reports of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Volume 32, (Boston 1903), [Aspinwall], 174. 3. [NEHGR], 3:179. 4. Ibid. 143:347. 5. Ibid. 2:250. 6. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey]. 7. [NEHGR], 121:13; 142:277. 8. Hull, Plymouth co., MA Vital Records, [HullVR], p. 69. 9. Suffolk County, Massachusetts Probate Records, [SuffolkProb or SPR], File #4023. 10. [NEHGR], 143:333. 11. Binney, C. J. F., New England Famillies, [MS at the Society], [Binney], 108. 12. [NEHGR], 143:348. 13. Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols., (Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1879), [Charlestown], 622. 14. Suffolk Deeds, Volumes 1-14, (Boston, 1880-1906), [SLR], 6:190. 15. Ibid. 24:17. 16. Warner, Frederick Chester, The Ancestry of Samuel Freda and John Warner, 5 vols., (Boston, Mass.: 1949, 1955), typescript, [Warner-Harrington], 412,507,694. 17. Sumner, Edith Bartlett, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine and Ninety Allied Families, (Los Angeles: American Offset Printers, 1959), [Farr Anc.], 304. 18. [Charlestown], 622,993. 19. Cleveland, Edmund James, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families. An Attempt to Trace, in both the Male and Female Lines the Posterity of Moses Cleveland . . . , 3 vols., (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood and Brainard Company, 1899), [Cleveland], 51. 20. Warren, Thomas B., Springfield Families, 3 vols., (Springfield, Mass., 1934-1935), [Springfield Fam. (ms)], 484. 21. Clarke, Mary (Bosworth), Bosworth Genealogy; a History of the Descendants of Edward Bosworth who arrived in America in the Year 1634; with an Appendix containing other Lines of American Bosworths, (San Francisco, 1926), [Bosworth], 98. 22. The Genealogical Magazine, (Salem, Mass.: Salem Press, 1890+), [GenMag or Putnam's Mag.], 7:285. 23. Pope, Charles Henry, Loring Genealogy, (Cambridge, Mass.: Murray & Emery, 1917), [Loring], 32. 24. Lincoln, ?? History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts, ([Hingham] The Town, 1893), [Hingham], 3:24. 25. [HullVR], II:994. 26. [NEHGR], 121:107; 143:348. 27. Ibid. 143:348; 121:112. 28. Ibid. 143:348; 121:115. 29. [HullVR], p. 68. 30. [Charlestown], II:757. 31. Ibid. 32. Sheppard, Walter Lee, The Ancestry and Descendants of Thomas Stickney Evans & Sarah Ann Fifield Both of Fryeburg, Maine, (Ann Arbor: privately printed, 1940), [Evans (1940)], 101. 33. [Warner-Harrington], 412,507,585. 34. Fish Frances Webster, Ancestry of Frances Webster Fish, (Oakland, CA: 1923), typescript, [FishAnc]. 35. Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 vols., (Hillburn, N.Y.: privately printed, 1939), [Snow-Estes], 1:260. 36. [Charlestown], 99,632. 37. Pierce, Frederic Beech, 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., (Worcester: C. Hamilton, 1882), [Pierce (#8)], xvii, 20, 23. 38. [Charlestown], II:756. 39. [NEHGR], 143:333; 143:348.
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