Surname Saturday - PIERCE (England > Massachusetts)

It's Surname Saturday, and I'm "counting down" my Ancestral Name List each week.  

I am in the 7th great-grandmothers, up to number 563: Elizabeth PIERCE (1646-????). [Note: the 7th great-grandfathers have been covered in earlier posts].

My ancestral line back through two American generations of this PIERCE family is:

1.  Randall J. Seaver

2. Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983)
3. Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)

4. Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942)
5. Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962)

8. Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922)
9. Hattie Louise Hildreth (1857-1920)

16. Isaac Seaver (1823-1901)
17. Lucretia Townsend Smith (1827-1884)

34.  Alpheus B. Smith (1802-1840)
35.  Elizabeth Horton Dill (1791-1869)

70.  Thomas Dill (1755-1830)
71.  Hannah Horton (1761-1797)

140.  Thomas Dill (1708-1761)
141.  Mehitable Brown (1714-1758)

280.  Thomas Dill (1682-1718)
281.  Mary Pierce (1682-1713)

562.  Nathaniel Pierce, born 04 December 1655 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; died 1692 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He was the son of 1124. Robert Pierce and 1125. Mary Knight.  He married 23 March 1679/80 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.
563.  Elizabeth Pierce, born 25 December 1646 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.  

Children of Nathaniel Pierce and Elizabeth Pierce are:  Mary Pierce (1682-1713); Hannah Pierce (1684-????); Ichabod Pierce (1686-????).

1126.  Thomas Pierce, born about 1617 in probably Norwich, Norfolk, England; died 06 November 1683 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  He married  06 May 1635 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.
1127.  Elizabeth Cole, born about 1619 in England; died 05 March 1687/88 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.  She was the daughter of 2254. Rice Cole and 2255. Arrold Dunington.

Children of Thomas Pierce and Elizabeth Cole are:  Abigail Pierce (1639-1643); John Pierce (1643-1720); Thomas Pierce (1645-1717); Elizabeth Pierce (1646-????); Joseph Pierce (1648-1649); Joseph Pierce (1649-1716); Stephen Pierce (1651-1733); Samuel Pierce (1654-1656); Samuel Pierce (1656-1721); William Pierce (1657-1720); James Pierce (1659-1742); Abigail Pierce (1660-1719); Benjamin Pierce (1662-1739).

2252.  Thomas Pierce, born about 1584 in probably Norwich, Norfolk, England; died 07 October 1666 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States.  He married about 1610 in England.
2253.  Elizabeth, born about 1595 in England; died after 22 March 1666/67 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Children of Thomas Pierce and Elizabeth are:  John Pierce (1610-????); Thomas Pierce (1617-1683); Elizabeth Pierce (1619-1692); Robert Pierce (1621-1706); Persis Pierce (1626-1683); Mary Pierce (1628-1703); Samuel Pierce (1630-1678).

This line is complicated because 562. Nathaniel Pierce (his father was Robert Pierce (1621-1706)) and 563. Elizabeth Pierce were first cousins (it was Nathaniel's second marriage, Elizabeth's third marriage).

Resources used to obtain the Pierce family information includes:

*  Frederic Beech Pierce, Pierce Genealogy (Worcester, Mass.: Charles Hamilton Press, 1882).

*  Joan S. Guilford, The Ancestry of Dr. J.P. Guilford (Sheridan Psychological Services, Inc., 1990), Volume 1, page 607.

*  Massachusetts town vital record books.

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