Ancestry of Maj. Gen.
Leonard Wood

Leader of the Rough Riders

Anthony Pierce

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Leonard Wood — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 432 
  • Father:
  • John Pierce 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Trull   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 8 Apr 1611 
  • Christening Location:
  • St. Edmund, Norwich, Norfolk, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 9 May 1678 
  • Death Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Anne -----
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 28 Dec 1633 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Pierce

  Mary Pierce

  Joseph Pierce (Ahnentafel No:216 )

  • Notes: 

  • Anthony Pierce's surname is also seen as Peirce and Pers.

    Anthony Pierce is sometimes claimed to have had a first wife named Sarah or Mary. Evidence is needed to support this claim.

• Sources for Anthony Pierce

  • ¹ The American Genealogist, 2010, Vol. 84, pp. 177-184.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 264.
  • ³ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. VI, R-S, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 33.
  • ⁴ Peirce, Frederick Clifton, Peirce Genealogy: Being the Record of the Posterity of John Pers, An Early Inhabitant of Watertown, in New England . . ., Worcester: Press of Chas. Hamilton (1880), 18, 21-22.
  • ⁵ Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 Vols., Hillburn, NY: Privately Printed (1939), Vol. 1, p. 327.