Giles PEIRCE

Male 1651 - 1698  (47 years)

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  • Name Giles PEIRCE 
    Birth 22 Jul 1651  Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male 
    Death 19 Nov 1698  East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Person ID I01918  Sorensen-Remington Family Tree
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

    Father Richard PEARCE,   b. 1615, Bristol, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt Oct 1678 (Age 63 years) 
    Mother Susannah WRIGHT,   b. 1620 
    Marriage 1642  Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F01611  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth HALL,   b. 1653, Portsmouth, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Nov 1698, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 45 years) 
    Marriage 13 Apr 1676  East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Children 
     1. Jeremiah PEIRCE,   b. 22 Feb 1677/78   d. 21 Apr 1754, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 76 years)
     2. Elizabeth Peirce,   b. 27 May 1682, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Sep 1742 (Age 60 years)
     3. John Peirce,   b. 11 Jan 1686/87, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1739, East Greenwich, RI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 51 years)
     4. Mary Peirce,   b. 7 Feb 1689/90
    Family ID F00682  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 

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  • Notes 
    • According to "The History of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1677-1960, With Related Genealogy" by Martha R. McPartland, Giles Pierce was born in 1651, probably in Portsmouth . . . he was made a freeman of Portsmouth in 1673 and in 1677 was granted land in East Greenwich . . . He served as Deputy, Moderator, and member of the Town Council. The first town meeting was held in his home in 1677.

      The surname was spelled variously as Peirce, Pierce, or Pearce.

      The Peirce Project web site has his year of birth as 1649.

  • Sources 
    1. [S012495] Martha R. McPartland, The History of East Greenwich, Rhode Island.

    2. [S012496] John O. Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978), 147.

    3. [S012496] John O. Austin, Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1978), 91.

    4. [S012494] James N. Arnold's Vital Record of RI, Vol. I, Kent County, 55.