PIERCE Family Notes

PIERCE FAMILY NOTES

The Pierce family has three different connections in this family tree. The first is with Anthony EAMES & Margery PIERCE. Next is Michael J. PIERCE, who married Anthony & Margery's daughter Persis. Third, is Rhoda PIERCE who married Amos CORNELL. It is not yet known if they are all from the same Pierce family.

FAMILY OUTLINE:

Richard PEARCE & Marguerite CONEY.

(John PIERCE).
(Robert PIERCE).
(Capt. William PIERCE).
Michael PIERCE, b. 1615; d. 1676; m. 1643 Persis EAMES, b. 10/28/1621 at Fordington, DOR, England; of Charleston, MA, dau. of Anthony Eames & Margery Pierce. He emigrated from Higham, Kent, England in 1640s ("The Great Migration 1630-1640") to Scituate, MA.

John PIERCE m. Patience DOBSON.

Ruth PIERCE, b. 9/6/1689 Scituate, Plymouth, MA; d. 6/18/1719 Swansea, Bristol, MA; m. Stephen CORNELL.
Jael PIERCE.
Mary PIERCE.

Amos CORNELL, b. 2/3/1779; d. 1855; m. Rhoda PIERCE (b. 1781 MA; d. 3/16/1871).

Unknown sources at ancestry.com give two dates of birth for Rhoda Pierce Cornell: 4/4/1781 and 8/19/1781 Medway, (Suffolk) Norfolk, MA.

Medway is a town on the Charles River SW of Boston. Ancestry.com Massachusetts Town Birth Records, Medway: Rhoda, b. 8/19/1781, dau. of Jonathan Pierce.