Heirology

Ancestors

Martha Adams

Mother: Frances Vassall
Children include Benjamin

Martha Adams was a daughter of James Adams and Frances Vassall, by the account in Deane's History of Scituate, and Savage accepted it. Her father was a son of John Adams, who came to Plymouth in the Fortune in 1621. Her mother had crossed in the Blessing in 1635 as a girl of twelve. Her mother's father was William Vassall of Belle House, one of the men named in the Massachusetts Bay charter.

Her five older brothers and sisters were baptised at the second church of Scituate between 1647 and 1654. She is not among them, so she was born after 1654.

The Scituate book enters her marriage as "Martha and Benjamen Pearce, Feb. 5, 1678", with "Feb." written above a struck "Apr." Her husband was a son of Capt. Michael Pierce, who had been killed in King Philip's War two years before, and he had inherited his father's dwelling house at Scituate.

Deane lists ten children "born from 1679 to 1699": Martha, Jerusha, Benjamin, Ebenezer, Persis, Caleb, Thomas, Adams, Jeremiah and Elisha. She gave one son her own surname as his given name. Her death is not recorded.

Parents

Frances Vassall b. 1623

Children

Benjamin Pierce Jr.

Sources

Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts (1831), archive.org historyofscituat00deane, p. 325, leaf 333
James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, 1860-1862), vol. 1, p. 11; https://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich/page/n32
Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston, 1909), vol. II, marriages, p. 11; https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofsc02newe/page/n14
Samuel Deane, History of Scituate, Massachusetts (Boston, 1831), archive.org historyofscituat00dean, pp. 211 and 325; James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, 1860-1862), vol. 1, p. 11, archive.org genealogicaldic01savarich; Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (1909), vol. I (archive.org vitalrecordsofsc01newe) and vol. II (archive.org vitalrecordsofsc02newe), births vol. I, marriages vol. II

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