Catherine Pierce

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• Alternate birth: of Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts

Catherine married Edward Presbury on 27 Aug 1713 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Edward was born in of Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Abigail Presbury died in 1801.

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• Alternate death: 20 Apr 1704, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

From his Find a Grave page (citation details below): "Deputy of the General Court in 1682-1683, a member of the Council of Safety in the revolution of 1689, a Justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Essex, and a State Representative. His home in Newbury is now a museum called the Spencer-Peirce-Little Farm. Though his parents spelled their last name Peirce, the spelling changed with Daniel, to Pierce, and is still spelled that way by his decendants today."

Daniel married Elisabeth Millward on 5 Dec 1660 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. Elisabeth (daughter of Thomas Millward and Anne Lowell) was born in 1644 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; died on 9 Dec 1709 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts; was buried in First Parish Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1704

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• Alternate death: 1677
• Alternate death: Between 12 Nov 1677 and 26 Mar 1678, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

Emigrated in 1634 on the Elizabeth. First at Watertown, then Newbury in 1638. He was a blacksmith. His origins, often said to have been in Ipswich, Suffolk, are unknown.

Daniel married Katherine between 1637 and 1638. Katherine died on 17 Jul 1654 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Anne Lowell before 1642. Anne (daughter of Percival Lowle and Rebecca) was born after 1614; died on 27 Nov 1690 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"The two daughters, Joanna and Anne, who are herein credited to Percival Lowle, are considered by several very competent genealogists to have been children of John and Elizabeth Goodale of Great Yarmouth, co. Norfolk. As a widow, Elizabeth Goodale came to New England and settled in Newbury where her daughter Elizabeth married Percival Lowle's son John. In her will Elizabeth (Goodale) Lowle names the husbands of Joanna and Anne among her four 'brothers.' John Goodale of Great Yarmouth, her father, had, however, made a very careful and highly genealogical will in 1625, and neither in this document nor in the regular baptismal records of his children do daughters Joanna and Anne appear. It would seem to be a sound conclusion that the husbands of Joanna and Anne were Elizabeth's 'brothers' as husbands of her two Lowle sisters-in-law, and the whole atmosphere surrounding them tends to substantiate it." [Walter Goodwin Davis, citation details below]

Anne's own will, dated 4 Nov 1681 and proved 22 Feb 1691, mentioned her brother Richard Lowle and her daughter Elizabeth Peirce; it also makes her son-in-law Daniel Pierce Jr. her executor.

Robert Charles Anderson also identifies her as a daughter of Percival Lowell (Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, page 459).

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• Alternate birth: of Kingston Seymour, Somerset, England
• Alternate death: 8 Jan 1664, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Notes:

One of TWK's twelve proven "gateway ancestors", and LDN's sole one so far. He emigrated to New England in 1639, when he was an old man, with his wife and several other family members, including his son John and John's first wife whose name has been lost. The ship on which they travelled was probably the Jonathan.

Before emigrating he was an assessor for the parish of Kingston Seymour in Somerset, and (probably) a merchant in Bristol.

His descendants include the "Boston Brahmin" Lowell family, as in "the Lowells speak only to Cabots, and the Cabots speak only to God." Notable individuals descended from him include:

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), poet, critic, editor, abolitionist, and diplomat

Charles Russell Lowell (1835-1864), Civil War general

Percival Lowell (1855-1916), astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Arizona, brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell

Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1856-1943), president of Harvard University, 1909-33, brother of Percival Lowell and Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell (1874-1925), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, sister of Percival Lowell and Abbott Lawrence Lowell

Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Herman Melville (1819-1891), novelist

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935), Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), Nobel Prize-winning poet

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), playwright

William Bundy (1917-2000), foreign-policy advisor to JFK & LBJ

McGeorge Bundy (1919-1996), brother of the above, National Security Advisor to JFK and LBJ, architect of the Vietnam War

Elliot Richardson (1920-1999), resigned as Nixon's Attorney General rather than obey Nixon's order to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox

Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (1941- ), 46th Vice President and servant of Beelzebub

Tuesday Weld (1943- ), American actress

Percival married Rebecca about 1600. Rebecca died on 28 Feb 1645 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 28 Dec 1645, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts