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SOURCE: "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts, With some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton", by David W. Hoyt; Providence, RI
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1 DANIEL1 PIERCE (or Peirce) of Newbury, "blacksmith," b. ab. 1611; m. 1st, SARAH _____, * who d. July 17, 1654 (Nb); 2d, Dec. 26, 1654 (Nb), ANN [GOODALE] MILWARD [or Millerd]. He came to N. Eng. in 1634; rem. from Watertown to Nb. 1638; taxed for lot 3, Mr. Hall's farm in Salis.; owned land in S. in 1661. He and wife Ann members Nb. chh. 1674; d. Nov. 27, 1677 (Nb); will Nov. 12, 1677 (Nb); will Nov. 12, 1677; March 26, 1678. Wid. Ann d. Nov. 27, 1690 (Nb). Children:
| 2 | I | DANIEL,2 Col., b. ab. 1638; m. Dec. 5, 1660 (Nb), ELIZABETH MILWARD; § both members Nb. chh. 1674; oath al. 1678; res. Nb.; d. April 22, 1704. Chil.: Daniel,3 b. Dec. 20, 1663 (Nb); d. Sep. 2, 1690 ¦ (Nb); Anne,3 b. May 22, 1666 (Nb), m. Simon Wainwright; Benjamin,3 b. Feb. 20, 1668-9 (Nb), m. Lydia Frost, d. 1711; Joshua,3 b. Oct. 16, 1671 (Nb); Thomas,3 b. May, 1674 (Nb); Martha,3 b. Feb. 26, 1676-7 (Nb); bp. March 4, 1676-7; Sarah,3 b. Oct. 3, 1679 (Nb); George,3 b. March 5, 1681-2 (Nb); Mary,3 b. April 14, 1685 (C Nb); John,3 b. Oct. 16, 1687 (C Nb); Catherine,3 b. Sep. 18, 1690 (C Nb). All but the two eldest ment. in will, 1702. |
| 3 | II | SARAH,2 b. ab. 1640; m. Aug. 24, 1659 (Nb), (4) CALEB2 MOODY. + |
| 4 | III | JOSHUA,2 b. May 15, 1642 (Nb); m. May 7, 1668 (S), DOROTHY3 PIKE (Robert,2 John1). He d. in Woodbridge, N. J., 1670. Chil.: Sarah,3 b. March 18, 1668-9, m. Dr. Humphrey Bradstreet of Nb.; Joshua,3 b. Jan. 14, 1670-1, (posthumous); res. Portsmouth, N. H. Wid. Dorthy m. Sep. 11, 1674 (Hv Nk S), (1) John Light. (See note, p. 232. Also G. 4. 1874, p. 369; 1875, p. 273.) |
| 5 | IV | MARTHA,2 b. Feb. 14, 1648-9 (Nb); m. Dec. 28, 1669 (Nb), Col. THOMAS NOYES (Rev. James1). |
* Daniel Pierce had a nephew John Spencer in 1651.
She was (2) ANN GOODALE (wid. of Thomas Milward). By her first husband she had 3 daus.: Rebecca, b. ___, m. May 27, 1656, Thomas Thorpe of Ip.; Ann, b. Nov. 1, 1642 (Nb); Elizabeth, b. 1644 (Nb); m. Daniel2 Pierce.
He was the leading proprietor in the settlement of Woodbridge, N. J., 1666-'70, and deputy-surveyor to run the boundary lines; but did not remain there long himself.
§ She was dau. of Thomas and Ann Milward (his stepmother), b. 1644.
¦ Joann, wife of Daniel, d. Sept. 16, 1690 (Nb).
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