Richard Pearce Jr. (1590-1677/1678), son of Richard Percy Jr. and brother of Capt. William Pearce (a ship's master), immigrated from England to Portsmouth, Rhode Island during or before 1645. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, California and elsewhere.

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Excerpt from Pearce Genealogy: Being the Record of the Posterity of Richard Pearce, an Early Inhabitant of Portsmouth, in Rhode Island, Who Came From England, and Whose Genealogy Is Traced Back to 972 For the past fifteen years the undersigned has been at work On the Pearce (however spelled) genealogy. First a genealogical 1ecord of the posterity of John Pers, of Watertown, 1630, my ancestor, was published. Then followed a record of the descendants of Sergt. Thomas Peirce, of Charleston. While collecting material for these families much valuable data was Obtained for the present work and another volume, the posterity of Capt. Michael Peirce, soon to be issued. The task of compiling the present work has been much more arduous than that of either the two other books. A vast amount of correspondence has been conducted with persons bear ing the name, and with others, descendants of Pearces. Rhode Island town records have been examined, as have the wills and inventories of estates of deceased members of the' family, all in volving an untold amount of labor. The work of compiling was prolonged on account of business which could not be neglected, and nearly all of the work upon this volume has been done during evenings after other duties had been finished. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.