Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; (1907) (14780059201)

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Title: Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity;

Year: 1907 (1900s)

Authors: Crane, Ellery Bicknell, 1836-1925, ed

Subjects: Worcester society of antiquity. (from old catalog) Worcester County (Mass.) -- Genealogy

Publisher: New York, Chicago, The Lewis publishing company

Contributing Library: The Library of Congress

Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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13. 1680. They weremarried, contrary to the law of the colony, accord-ing to the Quaker form. Isaac Peirce was a mem-ber of the Society of Friends. He was persecutedto the extent that he was fined for not conformingto the law regulating marriage. He pleaded guilty,was fined and seems to have been let alone after-ward, whereas many of the Quakers had their homesbroken up by the religious fanatics then in controlof affairs in the colonies. Many Baptists sufferedthe same wav later. The curious ignorance shownby the genealogist of the Peirce family in reportingthis court record requires this explanation here. John Booth, the father of Mrs. Peirce, was atScituate in 1656. His son Benjamin was a partnerof Isaac Peirce, Jr.. his brother-in-law, in the pur-chase of a trnct of land at Middleboro and Tauntonin 1709. Judith (Booth) Peirce died May 4. 173.3. He married (second). I7.s6. Abigail . In his will, made 1756, he bequeaths a negro slave Jack.He died January 17, 1757. He was called a very

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7/it I,K.isI^^iliskni r ?r^ ^, WORCESTER COUNTY 477 uncompromising man and he suffered great dis-quietude because his children, except one, left theQuakers and became Calvinist Baptists. According-ly he left to his Quaker son, the youngest, who hadbeen willing and obedient the lions share ofhis property. His children were: I. Ebenezer, born1704, married, December 13, 1728, Mary Hoskins,daughter of Henry Hoskins and granddaughter ofWilliam Hoskins; Ebenezer died August 14, 1796;his wife died October 5, 1768. 2. Isaac, born 1705,married, May 5, 1735, Deliverance HoUoway, ofMiddleboro. 3. Elisha, married, November 10, 173S,Margaret Paine, of Freetown, daughter of JohnPaine and Rebecca Davis. 4. Abigail, married, Oc-tober 28, 1736, John Howland, of Middleboro; shedied 1756; he died 1790, aged eighty. 5. Judith,born July 4, 1709, married, December 2, 1736, Lieu-tenant Thomas Nelson, Jr., of Middleboro, whowas twelve years selectman, fourteen years in gen-eral court, lieutenant of Fourth Co

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