Rash's Surname Index
Notes for George PIERCE
GEORGE PEIRCE of the Parish of Winscom, in the County of Somerset, England, emigrated to America in 1684, sailing from Bristol, England, with his wife, Ann Gainer, of Thornbury, Co. of Gloucester, whom he m. 1st December, 1679, and three young children. In 1684 he had 490 acres of land surveyed for himself in what is now Thombury Township, Pa.; in 1686 his name appears as an active member of Chichester Friends Meeting; meetings of the Society were often held at his house; in 1706 represented Chester County in the Provincial Assembly.; was one of a company who erected “the Concord Mill”; d. in 1734, in East Marlborough, where he had removed two years previously.
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