Individual Details

Anderson cites no further record of John Peirce's daughter Exercise after his 1661 will. The marriage record in the published Lynn vital records calls Nehemiah's wife "Experience Pearce" although the death record is for Exercise Jewett widow of Nehemiah. Various secondary sources, such as the Jewett genealogy and Early Settlers of Rowley state that the wife of Nehemiah Jewett was Exercise, daughter of John Pierce. Note that the Jewett genealogy calls her daughter of John and Rebecca (Wheeler) Pierce which is unlikely since that couple married in 1654 and Nehemiah Jewett married in 1668. For lack of a better solution, she was probably daughter of John Peirce and his second wife, Mary, but that means she was born before 1647 when Mary (according to TGMB) died or possibly Mary died later; it's not clear where Anderson got the 1647 date for her death. There appears to be no other woman by the name of Exercise (or Experience) Pierce/Peirce, etc. in New England this early.

Birth	Abt 1647	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
Marriage	19 Oct 1668	Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay - Nehemiah Jewett
Death	13 Nov 1731	Ipswich, Essex, Province of Massachusetts

Spouse	Nehemiah Jewett (1643 - 1719)
Child	Jemima Jewett (1674 - 1716)
Child	Nehemiah Jewett (1675 - )
Child	Joanna Jewett (1677 - )
Child	Nathan Jewett (1679 - )
Child	Mercie Jewett (1680 - )
Child	Nehemiah Jewett (1683 - 1747)
Child	Joseph Jewett (1685 - )
Child	Mehitabel Jewett (1687 - )
Child	Mehitabel Jewett (1689 - )
Child	Benjamin Jewett (1691 - )

Father	John Pearce (1606 - 1661)
Mother	Mary Pearce mnu ( - 1647)
Sibling	Mary Pearce (1646 - )

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