Born in Sadsbury, Chester County, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America
Ancestors 
Son of Gainer Pierce
and Sarah (Walter) Pierce
Brother of
James George Pierce, Elizabeth (Pierce) Jeffreys, Ann Pierce, Susanna Pierce [half], George Pierce [half], Sarah Pierce, Susanna (Pierce) Hollingsworth, Ann Pierce [half], Mary Pierce, James Pierce [half], Gainer Pierce [half] and James Pierce
Husband of
Jane (Underwood) Peirce
— married
16 Dec 1762 in West Caln, Caln Township, Chester, Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Father of
Mary (Peirce) Ellis and Gainer Rhodes Pierce
Died after
after age 69
in Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio, USA [uncertain]
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Biography
Gainer Peirce was born 1 Jul 1740, in Sadsbury, Chester County, Pennsylvania. He is the son of Gainor Pierce and Sarah Walter. Gainer married Jane D. Underwood 16 Dec 1762. Gainer served during the Revolutionary War as a private in the 6th Company, 6th batallion Lancaster County Militia. Gainer Pierce passed away after 1810, in Hanover, Columbiana County, Ohio. [1][2]
Gainer was born 1 Jul 1740 in Sadsbury, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to Gainer Pierce and Sarah Walter. They were Quakers and attended Friends Monthly Meetings. He married Jane Underwood on 16 Twelfth 1762.
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Children:
- Elizabeth Peirce 14d 8m 1763-
- Mary Peirce 15d 5m 1765-
- George Peirce 25d 3m 1767-
- Susanna Peirce 27d 1m 1769-1843 m. Abraham Passmore
- Ann Peirce 5d 5m 1773-
- Gainer Rhodes Peirce 1d 9m 1775-1846
- Calvin Peirce 23d 2m 1780- [3]
Pennsylvania, Revolutionary War Battalions and Militia Index
1979 Pennsylvania, Septennial Census
- Name: Gainer Peirce
- Residence Year: 1779
- Residence Place: Sadsbury, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA[7][8][9]
1790 US Federal Census
- Name: Gainer Pierce
- Home in 1790 (City, County, State): Sadsbury, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
- Free White Persons - Males - Under 16: 2
- Free White Persons - Males - 16 and over: 3
- Free White Persons - Females: 3
- Number of Household Members: 8[10][11]
Hinshaw Index to Selected Quaker Records, 1680-1940
- Name: Gainer Pierce
- Birth Date: 1 Jul 1740
- State: Pennsylvania
- Monthly Meeting: Goshen Monthly Meeting[12][13][14][15]
U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [1] Swarthmore College; Swarthmore, Pennsylvania; Register of Marriage Certificates; Collection: Quaker Meeting Records; Call Number: MR Ph 197 16 Dec 1762 Goshen Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, Chester, Pennsylvania.
Marriage place, West Caln, names father James Underwood and husband Gainer Peirce. Date 16 Twelfth 1762
U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Volume 284 [2] Lists marriage date, Jane Underwood, Gainer Peirce and decendants and parents. Private in Lancaster County Militia, Gainers death after 1810.
Pennsylvania, Septennial Census, 1779-1863 [3]
Year: 1790; Census Place: Sadsbury, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Series: M637; Roll: 8; Page: 192; Image: 885; Family History Library Film: 0568148 [4]
I can find no evidence of his death in 'Hanover, Columbiana, Ohio, USA'. Sources added by Terry McClintock added 8 Feb 2018
Sources
- ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/82009146/person/340138904191/facts
- ↑ See: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Pierce-2388-3
- ↑ https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Pierce-2388-1
- ↑ Revolutionary War Battalions & Militia Index Cards. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
- ↑ https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2591&h=5460&ssrc=pt&tid=82009146&pid=340138904191&usePUB=true
- ↑ See: Gainer Pierce Pennsylvania, Revolutionary War Battalions and Militia Index
- ↑ Septennial Census Returns, 1779–1863. Box 1026, microfilm, 14 rolls. Records of the House of Representatives. Records of the General Assembly, Record Group 7. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA.
- ↑ https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2702&h=781683&ssrc=pt&tid=115493624&pid=200137818773&usePUB=true
- ↑ See: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Pierce-2388-2
- ↑ 1790; Census Place: Sadsbury, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Series: M637; Roll: 8; Page: 192; Image: 885; Family History Library Film: 0568148
- ↑ https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=5058&h=321378&ssrc=pt&tid=82009146&pid=340138904191&usePUB=true
- ↑ Hinshaw, William Wade. William Wade Hinshaw's Index to Unpublished Quaker Records. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania: Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.
- ↑ https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2705&h=47984&ssrc=pt&tid=82009146&pid=340138904191&usePUB=true
- ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2705/40586_301729-01831/47984?backurl=https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/33253369/person/190167751582/facts/citation/680396067247/edit/record
- ↑ See: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Pierce-2388
- Darlene Dunlap Litz Haight
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Gainer by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Gainer by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- J. Pierce
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup I-M253, FTDNA kit #960563
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~0.78%
James McDonald :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch LJ8846489 [compare], Ancestry member dtvmcdonald
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch LJ8846489 [compare]
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~0.39%
Dillon Harker :
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~0.39%
Alyssa Bistline :
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Merging it with Pierce-723 without carrying over any of the clearly erroneous -7816 demographics would be a clean way to clear Wikitree of this erroneous record and remove the duplicate husband references in the record of Sarah Pierce Walter.
Name: Gainor Pierce Marriage Place: Chester, Pennsylvania Father: Gainor Pierce Spouse: Jane Underwood Spouse Father: James Underwood Event Type: Marriage Intention (Marriage) Monthly Meeting: Goshen Monthly Meeting Historical Meeting Data: Search for this monthly meeting in the 'Quaker Monthly Meetings Index' Yearly Meeting: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Title: Men's Minutes, 1747-1762 Meeting State: Pennsylvania Meeting County: Chester