Captain Michael Pierce

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Pedigree
ChartsAncestors of Wilford Ervie Billings
William Howard Taft - Wilford Ervie Billiings
Captain Michael Pierce, whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here), was born about 1615.1 He was killed in a battle with Indians, 26 March 1676.1

Michael married (1) Persis Eames, daughter of Anthony Eames and Margery (…), before 1645;2 he married (2), as her 2nd husband, Anne (…), whose ancestry is unknown (or not traced here), before 1664.3

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.4,5

Family 1

Persis Eames b. 28 Oct 1621, d. 31 Dec 1662
Children
  • Ephraim Pierce5 d. 14 Sep 1719
  • Elizabeth Pierce5
  • Sarah Pierce5
  • Anna Pierce5
  • Mary Pierce5 d. 1735
  • Abiah Pierce5
  • Ruth Pierce5
  • Abigail Pierce+1 b. abt. 1646, d. 29 Sep 1723
  • Persis Pierce5 b. Jan 1645/46
  • Benjamin Pierce5 b. abt. 1657, d. 3 May 1730
  • John Pierce5 b. 1659, d. 8 Sep 1750
  • Persis Pierce5 b. 26 Dec 1662

Family 2

Anne (…) b. abt. 1605, d. aft. 15 Jan 1675/76
This person was last edited on23 Jan 2023

Citations

  1. [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.
  2. [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.
  3. [S2053] Anderson, et al., The Great Migration, 1:38.
  4. [S2532] Pierce, Peirce Genealogy iv, 34-35.
  5. [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.