Giles (Pearse) Pearce (1651 - 1698)

Born 22 Jul 1651 in Portsmouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Hall) Pearce — married 13 Apr 1676 in East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island

Descendants

Died 19 Nov 1698 at age 47 in East Greenwich, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

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Biography

Hon. Giles Peirce, son of Richard Peirce, was one of the founders of the town of East Greenwich, Rhode Island, in 1677. The town meeting was held at his house. He was moderator of the town meeting in 1685 ; member of the general assembly in 1690 and 1696; town councilman in 1677-84, 1691 and 1696.

His will was proved December 7, 1698.^[1]

He married, in April, 1676, Elizabeth Hall, who died in 1698, daughter of William and Mary Hall, of Portsmouth.' He died November 19, 1698.

Children, born at Portsmouth and East Greenwich:

• Jeremiah, January 22, 1678
• Susannah, May 7, 1679
• Elizabeth, May 27, 1682
• John
• Mary, February 7, 1690.

Giles was admitted freeman of the town of Portsmouth 29 Apr 1693, and of the colony 6 May 1673. He was one of the grantees of the town of East Greenwich, RI, in May 1677, when he was admitted a freeman of that place. The town meeting that year was held at his house. February 20, 1678, he bought of John and Susanna Tripp one-fourth part of a purchase right in Warwick. He was moderator of the town meeting in 1685, member of the General Assembly in 1690 and 1696, and town councilman in 1677-1684, 1691, and 1696.49

His will was admitted to probate in East Greenwich 7 Dec 1698, filed 15 Nov 1698, and proved 7 Dec 1698. His wife Elizabeth was executor.49 On 13 Apr 1676 when Giles was 24, he married Elizabeth Hall, daughter of William Hall (ca 1613-ca 1673/1675) & Mary (-ca 1680), in East Greenwich, RI.105 Born ca 1653. Elizabeth died aft 1698.

Sources

1. ↑ New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the ..., Volume 1 edited by William Richard Cutter

• New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: Volume 1edited by William Richard Cutter
• Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island (J. H. Beers & Co., 1908)
• Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690
• Gorton, Adelos,. The life and times of Samuel Gorton : the founders and the founding of the Republic : a section of early United States history and a history of the colony of Providence and Rhode Island plantations in the Narragansett Indian country now the state of Rhode Island, 1592-1636-1677-1687 : with a genealogy of Samuel Gorton's descendants to the present time. Philadelphia: unknown, 1907.
• Pierce, Frederick Clifton. Pearce Genealogy (Rockford, Ill., 1888) p 44