Dorcas (Unknown) Pearson (abt. 1621 - 1702)

Born about 1621 in England

Wife of John (Pearson) Pierson — married before 1643 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 12 Jan 1702 at about age 81 in Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Province

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Disputed Origins

Dorcas Pickard is shown throughout a wealth of unsourced online genealogies with the last name Pickard, and parents John Pickard and Ann ( ) Pickard Lume. Quality sources supporting her parents and last name at birth have not been found yet. As a result, her last name at birth will be chanced to Unknown, with Pickard as an uncertain Other Last Name. Her parents will be removed until such time as quality sources to support them are provided.

Biography

This person is an ancestor of President Franklin Pierce^[1]

Dorcas _______ was brought to Rowley by her husband, John Pearson. Her last name was unknown. They lived together 50 years.^[2]

Dorcas ( ) Pickard died January 12, 1702-3 at Rowley, Massachusetts.^[2]

Research Notes

It is possible that she is the Dorcas, daughter of John Swett (abt.1580-1652) and his wife, Phebe (Benton) Swett (abt.1584-1665). This is based on the fact that 10 of the children of John Pearson and his wife Dorcas, had the same names as children of John Swett and his wife Phebe (Benton) Swett. More research is required.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Blodgette, George Brainard; Jewett, Amos Everett, Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts, published 1933. Reference page 273
3. ↑ Randy A. West, Robert Battle, and Robert Charles Anderson, "The English Connection of Robert¹ Keyes of Watertown and Newbury, Massachusetts, and John ¹ Swett of Newbury", New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Reference Volume 176, page 13

• Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.

• Thurston, Brown, Thurston Genealogies, 1635-1892, Second Edition, published by Brown Thurston, Portland, Maine, 1892, Pg. 13. Shows last name as unknown

• Stearns, Ezra S. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2, published 1908. Reference page 773. Shows last name as unknown

• Pierson, Lizzie B. Pierson genealogical records, published 1898. Reference page 54. Shows last name as unknown

• Quinby, Henry Cole "Pearson Family" New England Family History Reference Volume 2 (1908), page 135. Shows last name as unknown

• Holden, Edward F. "American Ancestors of Franklin Pierce, Fourteenth President of the United States" The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Reference Volume 55, page 144. Shows last name as unknown

• Pramberg, Noreen C. (Noreen Cook) Four generations of the descendants of John and Dorcus Pearson of Rowley, Massachusetts in 1643, published 1994. Reference pages 3-5. Shows last name as unknown.

• "Estate of Ann Lume of Rowley" Essex County, MA: Early Probate Records, 1635-1681.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015. Reference Volume 1, page 371. Shows Ann Lume's three children, John Pickard, Judith Lumbe (sic) and Susannah Lumbe (sic). No mention of Dorcas

• Wilson, Wendell E. Wilson, "The Ancestry of Mary Jewett of Ipswich and Rowley" says on page 287 that she was Dorcas Pickard, daughter of John Pickard, and on the next page, "Her maiden name is unknown," citing another researcher.