Captain Michael Pierce

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Pedigree
ChartsAncestors of Wilford Ervie Billings
William Howard Taft - Wilford Ervie Billiings
Captain Michael Pierce, son of Thomas Pearson and Elizabeth Brymley, was born probably shortly before his baptism at Olney, Buckinghamshire, England, 9 September 1621.1 He was killed in a battle with Indians, 26 March 1676.2

Michael married (1) Persis Eames, daughter of Anthony Eames and Margery Seager, before 1645;3 he married (2), as her 2nd husband, Anne (…), whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here), before 1664.4

Michael left a will dated 15 January 1675/76, and proved 5 Ju[ly 1676]. He wrote it because, in his words, "being now by the appointment of God going out to war, against the Indians…." In it he mentioned or named:
wife Annah
sons Benjamin, John, Ephraim
daughters Abigail Holbrook, Elizabeth, Sarah, Anna, Mary Holbrook,Abiah, Ruth, Peirsis
grandchildren Elizabeth Holbrook, Abigail Holbrook.5,6

Family 1

Persis Eames b. 28 Oct 1621, d. 31 Dec 1662
Children
  • Ephraim Pierce6 d. 14 Sep 1719
  • Elizabeth Pierce6
  • Sarah Pierce6
  • Anna Pierce6
  • Mary Pierce6 d. 1735
  • Abiah Pierce6
  • Ruth Pierce6
  • Abigail Pierce+2 b. abt. 1646, d. 29 Sep 1723
  • Persis Pierce6 b. Jan 1645/46
  • Benjamin Pierce6 b. abt. 1657, d. 3 May 1730
  • John Pierce6 b. 1659, d. 8 Sep 1750
  • Persis Pierce6 b. 26 Dec 1662

Family 2

Anne (…) b. abt. 1605, d. aft. 15 Jan 1675/76
This person was last edited on31 Aug 2026

Citations

  1. [S2759] Buckinghamshire Record Office, Aylesbury, Bishop's transcripts for Olney, 1576-1834, FHL microfilm 1999458, IGN 7909451, img #617, further cited as Bishop's Transcripts for Olney.
  2. [S2532] Frederick Clifton Peirce, Peirce Genealogy, no. IV, Being the Record of the Posterity of Capt. Michael, John and Capt. William Pierce, Who Came to this Country From England (Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889), 33, further cited as Pierce, Peirce Genealogy iv.
  3. [S2053] Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants To New England, 1634-1635, 7 volumes (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999-2011), 2:389, further cited as Anderson, et al., The Great Migration.
  4. [S2053] Anderson, et al., The Great Migration, 1:38.
  5. [S2532] Pierce, Peirce Genealogy iv, 34-35.
  6. [S1295] Plymouth, Massachusetts, Probate Records, 1686-1903: with index and docket, 1685-1967, 3: pt 2:8, FHL microfilm 567794 img 399, further cited as Plymouth Co. Probate.