Persis was born about 1626. She was the daughter of Thomas Pierce and his wife Elizabeth of Charlestown.[1]
Persis was born in England, probably about 1625, and came to Charlestown in 1634 with her family. "Peircis Bridges" was admitted to Charlestown church 30 November 1643 [ChChR 10]. [1]
Her identity as wife of William Bridge(s) "is deduced from the 1665 will of Thomas Pierce naming granddaughters Mary Bridge and Elizabeth Jefts [Tufts] living with them, and the Charlestown town record of 1646/7 calling William Bridges and Peter Tufts brothers.[MPR Case #17583; Charlestown Town Records, p 71]."[2]
After William Bridges's death, and no later than 6 May 1653, she had married, as his second wife, John Harrison of Boston, ropemaker, by whom she had ten more children [ChBOP 127].The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33
She passed away about 1682.[citation needed]
Some sources identify her as Persis Lobdell, the wife of Simon Lobdell, but there is no authority for this identification [3]
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Categories: Woburn, Massachusetts | Puritan Great Migration Minor Child
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