Robert Pierce

- 1665

• Name	Robert Pierce  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	6 Jan 1655	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Death	5 Feb 1665	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Burial	7 Feb 1665	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I23131	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2019

  
  

  Family	Ann Greenway,   b. Abt 1601   d. 31 Dec 1695, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 94 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1631  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Pierce   d. Aft 27 Aug 1684
  Family ID	F13921	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2019

  
  

• Notes

  He first appears in Dorchester in 1639. A family tradition still current in the mid-19th century is that a piece of bread he brought over from England, "the remainder biscuit," was built into the walls of the house he built at Dorchester.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1845] The Pioneers of Massachusetts by Charles Henry Pope. Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1900. [S468] A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England by James Savage. Boston: Little, Brown, 1860-64. [S3010] William B. Trask, "John Grenaway: Abstracts of Deeds (1650) from John Grenaway to His Children." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 32:55, 1878. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England,1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.