Jesse Pierce was born
Middleborough, Plymouth County, Mass., on 12 July 1747. He was the son of
Richard and Mary (Simmons) Pierce. His last name is spelled in a variety of ways
including Peirce and Pearce.
Jessie married Ruth Perkins in
Middleborough on 26 January 1772 (recorded Middleborough and Freetown Vital
Records). She was of Freetown at the time of their marriage. She was born 5
August 1752 in Wrentham, Norfolk Co., Mass., the daughter of Ignatius/Ignatious
and Keziah/Kezia (Davis) Perkins. I wrote about her parents here.
Jessie and Ruth had seven
children, only the birth record for their oldest son, David, has been
found:
1. David, born 22 June 1773, Middleborough, married Desire
Nye and lived in Wareham, Plymouth Co., Mass.
2. Keziah born 1770s, she married, first _____ Holmes; she
married, second, Joseph Harris.
3. Richard born 1770s, married Joannah Nye
4. Ignatius born about 1785, married Betsey Besse.
5. Branch born about 1788, married Rebecca Bates
6. Jessie born about 1790, died in New Orleans, date
unknown
7. Mary born about 1794, married Joshua Douglass
I descend from their son David,
whom I wrote about here.
The records on this family are
sparce, so I haven’t found what Jesse did for a living or if he served in any
public office.
The couple lived at Middleboro
but at some time moved to Plymouth. Perhaps this occurred around the time of
Ruth's unrecorded death as the last record found in vital records for either
Ruth or Jesse is the second marriage of Jesse Pierce to Susannah (Harlow) King
on 2 January 1799 in Plymouth.
Paul Bumpus of the Mayflower
Society came across the Descendants of Abraham Perkins of Hampton, NH to the
Eighth Generation, compiled by Carolyn C. Perkins. In Perkins work, only
four children, all sons, were attributed to Ignatius and his wife Keziah Davis:
David, Ignatius, Luke, and John. Perkins work showed the
connection between the family who lived at Freetown, later at Wrentham, and the
Ruth Perkins who married Jesse Pierce at Middleboro. This led Paul to examine
the Wrentham records, thus finding the birth of Ruth Perkins there on 5 August
1752, "d of Ignatius and Kezia." This discovery means that Ruth and her brother
William are "new" Mayflower descendants, from John Howland, John Tilley, and
Isaac Allerton. It is also now possible to have Mayflower lines approved from
the female passengers in this line: Elizabeth (Tilley) Howland, Joan (Hurst)
(Rogers) Tilley and Mary (Norris) Allerton.
Ruth died before before 2
January 1799 when Jesse married, second, Susannah (Harlow) King in Plymouth. Her
death is unrecorded but likely took place in Middleborough or
Plymouth.
Jesse Pierce died 30 September
1824, possibly in Plymouth. His death is found only on his 2nd wife's
Revolutionary War pension application which she filed on 4 September 1837 as the
widow of William King.
No Plymouth County probate for
Jesse and Ruth has been located.
Sources Not Listed
Above:
Ebenezer Peirce, The Peirce
Family, printed in NEHGR in Jan., April, July 1867 and October
1868.
Paul Bumpus, Ruth Perkins,
daughter of Ignatious of Freetown, Mass., printed in the Mayflower
Quarterly, September 2006
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