Born in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Weeks Sr
and Sarah (Sumner) Weeks
Sister of
Elizabeth Weeks, Sarah Weeks, Hannah Weeks, Experience Weeks, Joseph Weeks, Ebenezer Weeks and Deliverance (Weeks) Sumner
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at age 32
in Dorchester, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
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| Created 10 Dec 2011
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Biography
Thankful Weeks was born at Dorchester, Massachusetts on April 19, 1699/1700, daughter of Joseph Weeks and Sarah Sumner. [1]
She married Joseph Peirce at Boston on November 23, 1721. [2]
Thankful died at Dorchester on May 2, 1731/2. [1] She is buried in the Old Burying Ground at Dorchester where her inscription reads: Here Lyes ye Body of Thankful Peirce ye Wife of Joseph Peirce. She died May ye 2d 173[1?] in ye 33d year of her age. [3]
Her father, Joseph Weeks Sr., weaver of Dorchester, died intestate. On January 15, 1745/6, his son Joseph Jr. posted bond and was appointed administrator of his estate. [4]
On August 21, 1747 the court indicated that the division of lands to the six children and heirs could not be done without great prejudice. The final assessment being L4145 10s old tenor, brothers Joseph Jr. of Dorchester and Ebenezer of Pomfret, Connecticut, sons of the deceased receiving the real estate, should pay L592 4s 3d a piece to the remaining heirs including:
- the heirs of sister Thankful Pearce/Pierce, deceased [4]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 City Document 59: Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Dorchester Births, Marriages and Deaths, To the End of 1825, Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1890 p. 43: 135 https://archive.org/stream/recordsrelatingt21bost#page/n3/mode/2up
- ↑ A Report of the Record Commissioners of City of Boston. Boston Marriages1700-1809, City Document 150, Municipal Printing Office, Boston, Massachusetts, 1898, p. 102
- ↑ The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1852, p. 179
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Case 8419:p. 1-28 : Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017-2019. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org)
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