Ancestry of
Story Musgrave

NASA Astronaut

Michael Pierce

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Story Musgrave — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2646 
  • Father:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1615 
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  • Death Date:
  • 26 Mar 1676 
  • Death Location:
  • Cumberland, Providence, Rhode Island 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pierce's Fight Battle Site, near Central Falls, Providence, Rhode Island 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Persis Eames
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1645 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Ephraim Pierce

  Benjamin Pierce

  Mary Pierce (Ahnentafel No:1323 )

  Abiah Pierce

  • Notes: 

  • Captain Michael Pierce was killed by Indians during "Pierce's Fight" during the King Philip's War.

• Additional marriages for Michael Pierce

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  • Spouse:
  • Anna - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 15 Jan 1675

• Sources for Michael Pierce

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/01/2012).
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1945, Vol. 22, Pages 206, 208.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 389.
  • ⁴ Cornell, Rev. John, Genealogy of the Cornell Family: Being an Account of the Descendants of Thomas Cornell of Portsmouth, R.I., New York: Press of T.A. Wright (1902), 41.
  • ⁵ Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Pierce Genealogy, No. IV, Being the Record of the Posterity of Capt. Michael, John and Capt. William Pierce . . ., Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons (1889), 33-36.
  • ⁶ Pope, Charles Henry, The Plymouth Scrap Book: The Oldest Original Documents Extant in Plymouth Archives, Boston, Massachusetts: C. E. Goodspeed and Company (1918), 128-129.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 490.
  • ⁸ Seward, Rev. Josiah Lafayette, A History of the Town of Sullivan, New Hampshire, 1777-1917, Vol. 2, Keene, New Hampshire: J. L. Seward Est. (1921), 1330.
  • ⁹ Steele, George W., Thomas Steel of Boston and Some of his Descendants, 1664-1905: Also Including the Family and American Ancestry of . . ., Pasadena, California?: G. W. Steele (1905), 34-36.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Nine Men's Misery", (accessed 09/01/2012).