Katherine (Unknown) Pierce (abt. 1615 - 1654)

Wife of Daniel Pierce Sr. — married 1636 in Watertown, Mass

Descendants

Died 17 Jul 1654 at about age 39 in Newbury, Essex County, Mass. Bay Colony

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Katherine (Unknown) Pierce migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Disputed origins:

Given name: Daniel Pierce's first wife is found on the historical record as both Katherine (in two deeds),^[1] ______ (town death record),^[2] and Sarah (court record of death).^[3] In 2007, Robert Charles Anderson called her Katherine ______, explaining in part that reference to her as "Sarah" appears only in the court copy of the Newbury death record, where as that corresponding town record provides no given name.

Both of the deeds in which Anderson found her as Katherine (referenced above) survive as nineteenth-century copies of original records. One of the copied deeds (ILR 1:219) presented a date challenge, because it appears now dated 11 November 1658--after the death of Daniel's first wife (17 July 1654) and after his remarriage to Anne (26 December 1654). Anderson found the date on that deed was also later than the related acknowledgment or recordation. This led Anderson to suspect that a clerical error had been made during the re-copying of the deed. Anderson wrote, "we propose that the nineteenth-century copyist misread '1663' as '1658.'"^[4]

The various noted historical records and insight provide the basis by which Anderson concluded Pierce's first wife's name was Katherine.^[5]

Surname: In his 1897 profiling of Daniel Pierce, David W. Hoyt called his Pierce's first wife "Sarah _____." Hoyt commented further in a footnote saying, "Daniel Pierce had a nephew John Spencer in 1651."^[6] Of this passage, Robert Charles Anderson wrote (emphasis added), "Pierce did purchase land from Spencer in 1651,^[7] and there are many later references to this purchase, but no indication of a genealogical relationship between the two men."^[8]

Biography

Death

"Peirce, [Sara, w. Daniell. Ct.R.], July 17, 1654."^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ Citing "ILR 1:110, 219" in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (2007), 460 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2013).
2. ↑ Referring to her death record as provided by the Newbury "town record" in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (2007), 460 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2013).
3. ↑ Citing "EQC 1:406" in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (2007), 460 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2013).
4. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (2007), 460-461 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2013).
5. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (2007), 461 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2013).
6. ↑ David W. Hoyt, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts: with some Related Families of Newbury, Haverhill, Ipswich, and Hampton, multiple volumes or parts (1897 - ), part one, page 285, entry for Daniel^1 Pierce [or Peirce], of Newbury; digital images, Internet Archive (accessed 2014).
7. ↑ Citing "ILR 196" in Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (2007), 460 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2013).
8. ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (2007), 460 (in particular part); digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2013).
9. ↑ Essex Institute, compiler, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), Vol 2. p. 687

See also:

• Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P (2007), 457-462 for Daniel Pierce article; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2013).

• Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, George Francis Dow, ed., 9 vols. (1911-1975), 1:406 for continuation of "Vital Records of Newbury from Mar. 25, 1654 to Mar. 25, 1655" by Anthony Somerby (clerk); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2014). Particular entry reads, "Sara, wife of Daniel Peirce, died July 17, 1654."

Acknowledgements

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