Name Info

John PIERCE ?1621-1652
Fathers:JOHN

Search.........Person
Gender.........male
PAF-ID.........09117693
Age............31y 0m 0d
Fam-Group......MILLER
Fam-ID.........PIERCE
Citizenship....US born
Status.........deceased
Last-Marital...widowed

#Marriages.....1
#Divorces......0
#Sources.......7
#Events........1
#Images:.......0
#Comments......1
#Siblings......7
#Children......0

Person-Type....A
Immigrant?.....no
Immig-Known?...no
Parent?........father
Spouse?........husband
Sibling?.......brother
Child?.........son
Twin...........no
Adopted?.......

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Parents and Siblings
  1. Parent: JOHN PIERCE, male, born:1585 Norwich (Norfolk) England, died:1661-08-19 (76y 7m 18d) Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Anc:2, #M:1, #Cmnts:1, #SrcDocs:16
  2. Parent: ELIZABETH TRULL, female, born:1590 England, died:1667-03-12 (77y 2m 11d) ?Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Anc:2, Dad:ROBERT TRULL, Mom:MARY LADYMAN, #M:1, #SrcDocs:12
  3. Sibling: ESTHER\HESTER PIERCE, female, born:1612-08-06 Norwich (Norfolk) England, died:1637-1702 (24y 4m 26d) ?Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:JOHN PIERCE, Mom:ELIZABETH TRULL, #M:1, #SrcDocs:10
  4. Sibling: Anthony PIERCE, male, born:1613 ?Norwich (Norfolk) England, died:1636-1703 (23y 0m 0d) , Dad:JOHN PIERCE, Mom:ELIZABETH TRULL, #M:2, #SrcDocs:8
  5. Sibling: Mary PIERCE, female, born:1616 England, died:1636-1706 (20y 0m 0d) , Dad:JOHN PIERCE, Mom:ELIZABETH TRULL, #M:1, #SrcDocs:7
  6. Sibling: Robert PIERCE, male, born:1618 England, died:1706-09-10 (88y 8m 9d) ?Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PIERCE, Mom:ELIZABETH TRULL, #M:1, #SrcDocs:7
  7. Sibling: ELIZABETH PIERCE, female, born:1622 England, died:1665-1712 (43y 0m 0d) ?Waterton (Middlesex) Massachusetts, Anc:1, Dad:JOHN PIERCE, Mom:ELIZABETH TRULL, #M:1, #SrcDocs:5
  8. Sibling: John PIERCE
  9. Sibling: Judith PIERCE, female, born:1625 England, died:1645-1715 (20y 0m 0d) Massachusetts, Dad:JOHN PIERCE, Mom:ELIZABETH TRULL, #M:1, #SrcDocs:7

Spouse(s) and Children
  1. Marriage: 1642 Massachusetts
  2. Spouse: Mrs. Elizabeth PIERCE, female, born:1621 ?England, died:1641-1711 (20y 0m 0d) , #SrcDocs:1

Events
Birth
: ?1621 , Age:31, England
Married
: ?1642 , Age:31y 0m 0d, Massachusetts, Role:groom
Freeman
: ?1652 , Age:31y 0m 0d, England
Death
: 1652-1711, Age:31y 0m 0d

Places In
Wethersfield (Hartford) Connecticut
England
Massachusetts

General

Much more information on the descendants of John is printed in Volume III of William R. Cutter's 1911 book titled "Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut", beginning on page 1562. <<<>>>


Research

John may have either moved to Wethersfield (Hartford) Connecticut or stayed in Massachusetts and married Elizabeth ? and had son John who was born on 06-16-1643 in Boston.


Sources
Book Pierce Genealogy, Frederick C. Pierce, 1880


Data Issues
AncFlags between Spouses Mismatched

Historical
1621: Poland, Turkey - The Battle of Chocim Poles and Cossacks under Jan Karol Chodkiewicz defeat the Ottomans
1621: United States - The Pilgrims celebrate the first Thanksgiving with their Indian neighbors
1622: United States - Jamestown massacre Algonquian natives kill 347 English settlers outside Jamestown, Virginia (a third of the population of the colony) and burn the Henricus settlement
1623: Italy - Maffeo Barberini is elected Pope Urban VIII at the Papal conclave of 1623
1624-1642: France - As chief minister, Cardinal Richelieu centralises power in France
1625: United States - New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch West India Company in North America
1626: Italy - St. Peters Basilica in the Vatican completed
1626: United States - The Dutch buy Manhattan Island for $24, a presence is established but no large settlements made
1627: France - Cardinal Richelieu lays siege to Protestant La Rochelle which eventually capitulates
1629: France - Cardinal Richelieu allies with Swedish Protestant forces in the Thirty Years War to counter expansion by Ferdinand II
1631: Italy - Mount Vesuvius erupts near Naples
1632: germany - Battle of Lutzen (first of two), death of king of Sweden Gustav II Adolf
1633: Italy - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition
1633: United States - The city of Baltimore is settled
1634: Ethiopia - Emperor Fasilides expels the Catholic Patriarch Afonso Mendes and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia
1634: Germany - Battle of Nordlingen (first of two), in Bavaria, results in Catholic victory
1636: Ethiopia - Emperor Fasilides founds the city of Gondar, which becomes the capital of Ethiopia for the next two centuries
1636: United States - Harvard University is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts
1636: United States - Roger Williams is driven from Puritan Massachusetts and settles Rhode Island, a haven for religious freedom
1638: United States - Delaware is settled by Peter Minuet
1639-1651: England, Ireland, Scotland - Wars of the Three Kingdoms, civil wars throughout Scotland, Ireland, and England
1639: Italy - Disagreements between the Farnese and Barberini Pope Urban VIII escalate into the Wars of Castro and last until 1649
1639: Spain, England - Naval Battle of the Downs, Republic of the United Provinces fleet decisively defeats a Spanish fleet in English waters
1639: United States - John Wheelwright is banished from Boston and founds a colony in New Hampshire
1640-1668: Portugal - The Portuguese Restoration War led to the end of the Iberian Union
1640: England - Torture is outlawed in England
1640: Scotland - King Charles was compelled to summon Parliament due to the revolt of the Scots
1640: United States - The population of the American Colonies is estimated at 5,700. Starting in the 1990's, Charles Anderson of the New England Historic Genealogical Society begins books that provides information about all persons in New England by 1640.
1641: France - Rene Descartes publishes Meditationes de prima philosophia Meditations on First Philosophy
1641: Ireland - The Irish Rebellion
1641: Japan - The Tokugawa Shogunate Institutes Sakoku, foreigners are expelled and no one is allowed to enter or leave Japan
1642-1649: England - Civil War in England, Charles I is beheaded by Cromwell
1642: England - Isaac Newton is born
1642: Neatherlands, New Zealand - Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman achieves the first recorded European sighting of New Zealand
1644-1674: Mauritania - The Mauritanian Thirty-Year War
1644: China - The Manchu conquer China ending the Ming Dynasty, the subsequent Qing Dynasty rules until 1912
1644: Italy - Giovanni Battista Pamphili is elected Pope Innocent X at the Papal conclave of 1644
1645-1669: Turkey, Italy - Ottoman war with Venice, the Ottomans Invade Crete and capture Canea
1645: Japan - The death of Miyamoto Musashi, legendary Japanese Samurai warrior of natural causes
1647-1652: Spain - The Great Plague of Seville
1647: Turkey - Seven-year-old Mehmed IV becomes Ottoman sultan
1648-1653: France - Fronde civil war in France
1648-1667: Poland, Lithuania - The Deluge wars leave Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in ruins
1648-1669: Turkey, Italy - The Ottomans capture Crete from the Venetians after the Siege of Candia
1648: Spain, Italy - The Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War and the Eighty Years War and marks the ends of Spain and the Holy Roman Empire as major European powers
1649-1653: Ireland - The Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
1650: United States - An estimated 40,000 people are living in the American Colonies
1652: England, Netherlands - Anglo-Dutch Wars begin
1652: South Africa - Cape Town founded by the Dutch East India Company in South Africa