Ebenezer Pierce Sr. (1686)

Born 2 Apr 1686 in Scituate, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Ruth (Tilden) Pierce — married 16 Apr 1752 in Scituate, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

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Biography

"Ebenezer Pierce the son of Benjamin Pierce was born April 2, 1686." in Scituate, Plymouth, British Colonial America. ^[1]NOTE: Fourth line on page. He was the son of Benjamin Pierce and Martha (Adams) Pierce.

Timeline

• Ebenezer's first wife, and the mother of his children, is, as yet, unknown.
• 1751 Ebenezer Pierce, age 65, married Ruth Tilden, age 75, on March 21, 1751, in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Line 16 on document. ^[2]
• 1751 Ebenezer, his son Benjamin, and Benjamin’s wife Elizabeth received communion in Attleboro on 1 Sep 1751. The Scituate church received a letter from the Attleboro church. ^[3]See image 1.
• Under a heading of “Members in full Communion” Ebenezer Pierce Sr is shown as deceased. No date. See image Membership and Vital Records of Second Congregational Church, p.12"^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-7FC7?cc=2061550&wc=Q4D4-449%3A353350201%2C353448301%2C353448302 : 22 October 2020), Plymouth > Scituate > Births, marriages, deaths 1640-1801 > image 64 of 264; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L979-7XLP?cc=2061550&wc=Q4D4-449%3A353350201%2C353448301%2C353448302 : 22 October 2020), Plymouth > Scituate > Births, marriages, deaths 1640-1801 > image 188 of 264; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
3. ↑ "The Church Booke - 1707" September 24, 1707-August 7, 1791. “Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988.”
4. ↑ Attleboro, MA: Church Records of the Second Congregational Church, 1748-1851. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2021.) Originally published: Membership and vital records of the Second Congregational Church of Attleboro, Massachusetts, copies from the original records by Marion Williams Pierce Carter; edited, with an introduction, by Charles Shepard II. Second Congregational Church (Attleboro, Mass.): Attleborough, 1924. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2791/t/60736/12/0

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Notes

Note NI02703Town of Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Established 1633.

Vital Record To Year 1850, Volume 1, Page 290.

PEIRCE (Pearce, Peirse, Perce, Pierce) - birth,

Ebenezer, son of Benjamin, 02 April 1686.

• Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations, Vol 18 Part 1 of 3, Richard Warren, Boston, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004. "The Silver Book" Page 86
• Mayflower Society Application Database: "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QV77-L24 : accessed 19 September 2021), entry for Ebenezer Pierce, cites sources; "Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies" file (2:2:2:MMXD-DP8), submitted 24 February 2020 by FamilySearch. Source: Robert S. Wakefield, FASG; Judith Haddock Swan, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations - Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass December 1620 (Vol. 18 Pt. 1) ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2004)