52 Ancestors - Week 312 #523 Martha (--?--) Peirce (1647-1698) of Watertown, Massachusetts

Martha (--?--) Peirce (1647-1698)  is number 523 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #522 Joseph Peirce (1644-1713) in about 1667 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.

I am descended through:

*  their daughter, #261 Martha Peirce (1681-1759)), who married #260 William Whitney (1683-1720 in 1706.

*  their son, #130 Samuel Whitney (1719-1782), who #131 Abigail Fletcher (1720-1783) in 1741.

*  their daughter #65 Martha Whitney (1764-1832) who married #64 Benjamin Seaver (1757-1816)  in 1783.

*  their son  #32 Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) who married #33 Abigail Gates (1797-1867) in 1817.

*  their son #16 Isaac Seaver (1823-1901) who married #17 Lucretia Townsend Smith (1828-1884) in 1851.

*  their son #8 Frank Walton Seaver (1852-1922) who married #9 Hattie Louisa Hildreth (1857-1920) in 1874.

*  their son #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) who married #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) in 1900.

*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002)  in 1942.

*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

*  Name:                     Martha --?-- [1]    

*  Sex:                        Female  

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

  

*  Birth:                      about 1647, Massachusetts, United States[1]   

*  Death:                    before 15 June 1698 (before about age 51), husband married again; Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1–2] 

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:              Joseph Peirce (1644-1713)    

*  Marriage 1:          about 1667 (about age 20), Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States[1]    

* Child 1:                 Joseph Peirce (1669-1753)    

* Child 2:                 Francis Peirce (1671-1728)    

* Child 3:                 John Peirce (1673-1744)    

* Child 4:                 Mary Peirce (1674-    )    

* Child 5:                 Benjamin Peirce (1677-1740)    

* Child 6:                 Jacob Peirce (1678-1740)    

* Child 7:                 Martha Peirce (1681-1759)    

* Child 8:                 Stephen Peirce (1683-1761)    

* Child 9:                 Israel Peirce (1685-1732)    

* Child 10:               Elizabeth Peirce (1687-1753)    

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):  

The book by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Pierce Genealogy[1], provides an excellent history of the Pierce/Peirce family, but very little on the Joseph and Martha (--?--) Peirce family.

Martha --?-- was born in about 1647, perhaps in Watertown, Massachusetts[1].  Her maiden surname is not known, and her parents are not known.  Some online family trees say that her parents were Francis and Mary (--?--) Brayton of Portsmouth, Rhode Island.  However, their daughter, Martha Brayton, married a John Pearce, not Joseph Peirce, and resided in Rhode Island.

She married Joseph Peirce (1644-1713) in about 1667, probably in Watertown, and they had ten children, all recorded in the Watertown town record book[1]:

*  Joseph Peirce (1669-1753), married (1) 1689 Ruth Holland (1665-1692); (2) 1692 Hannah Munroe (1674-1736); (3) 1736 Beriah (Bemis) Child (1681-1768).

*  Francis Peirce (1671-1728), married 1697 Hannah Johnson (1675-1728).

*  John Peirce (1673-1744), married 1702 Elizabeth Smith (1674-1747).

*  Mary Peirce (1674-????), married 1706 Jacob Bennett (1676-????)

*  Benjamin Peirce (1677-1740), married 1714 Hannah Chesley (1687-1777).

*  Jacob Peirce (1678-1740), married 1702 Hannah (Lewis) Thatcher (1662-1717).

*  Martha Peirce (1681-1759), married 1706 William Whitney (1683-1720).

*  Stephen Peirce (1683-1761), married 1708 Abigail Bemis (1687-????).

*  Israel Peirce (1685-1732), married 1718 Sarah Holland (1688-????).

*  Elizabeth Peirce (1687-1753), married 1706 Joseph Bemis (1684-1738).

Joseph and Martha (--?--) Peirce resided in Watertown throughout their lives[1].  

It is not known when Martha Peirce died or was buried.  It was certainly before 15 June 1698 in Watertown[1-2], when her husband, Joseph Peirce, married, secondly, to Elizabeth (Kendall) Winship (1653-1719), the widow of Ephraim Winship.

There is no known death record, burial record or probate record for Martha (--?--) Peirce.

5.  SOURCES

1. Frederick Clifton Pierce, Pierce 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 (Worcester, Mass., Press of Chas. Hamilton, 1880), page 27, Joseph Peirce sketch.

2. Thomas W. Baldwin (compiler), Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Boston, Mass. : New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1915), Marriages, page 304, Joseph Peirce and Elizabeth Winship marriage (in Watertown) entry, 15 June 1698.

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NOTE:  In 2014, Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post  52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog.  I have extended this theme in 2020 to 364 Ancestors in 364 Weeks.

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