Individual Details

Col William Pierce II

( - Abt 13 Jul 1647)

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[[Category: Colony of Virginia, Immigrants from England]]
==Biography==
:Name: William Pearse
:Gender: Male
:Record Type: Christening (Baptism)
:Baptism Date: 25 Aug 1591:Baptism Place: St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, Tower Hamlets, Middlesex, England
:Father: William Pearse

===Notes===The following excerpt relates to a putative parental relationship with Margaret Bailey/Bayley and her presumptive father, Colonel William Pierce, JP of Northern Neck and Sheriff of Westmoreland County, as reported in the below cited textMozingo, Joe (2012). The fiddler on Pantico Run: an African warrior, his white descendants, a search for family. Free Press: New York..
''". . .as spelling varied greatly even among literate people’s names. It would waver and drift among his descendants—Masingo, Mazingo, Massingo, Massengil, Mosingo, Muzingo, Mowzing, Montzingo, and Monzingo—but by and large remained the way it was spelled that day. ''
''"[[Mozingo-72|Edward]] lived another forty years after he was freed, settling in the Northern Neck on or next to the property of Walker's daughter Ann and her husband. He married a woman named [[Bayley-210|Margaret]]. They had three sons and grew tobacco and raised livestock on a little creek called Pantico Run, on the border of Richmond and Westmoreland counties.''
''"What we know about [[Bayley-210|Margaret]] is circumstantial. A professional genealogist named Gareth Mark wrote a lineage report on the Mozingos in 1990, concluding that she was the white daughter of [[Bayley-211|Richard]] and [[Pierce-1428|Elizabeth ''Pierce'' Bailey]], who were people of high station. Elizabeth’s father, [[Pierce-1120|Colonel William Pierce]], was a justice of the peace and a sheriff in Westmoreland County, and had patented thousands of acres in the Northern Neck, including the plot the Mozingos lived on. The Baileys' son [[Bayly-73|Samuel]], a lawyer, lived next to [[Bayley-210|Margaret]] and [[Mozingo-72|Edward Mozingo]] and posted a bond to secure their appearance in a court case, something relatives commonly did. His name showed up in numerous land leases and lawsuits involving Edward and Margaret and the two of their sons who survived to adulthood. If Samuel was not Margaret’s brother, he was close to the family somehow. . .''
''"Debt was a way of life in Virginia, and pro forma lawsuits over payment of them were ubiquitous in the court record. [[Mozingo-72|Edward]] was as much a part of the system as anyone else. Despite the hardening of racism at the time, the court books show him standing up for himself, suing for tobacco he felt he was owed, and fighting similar suits against him. He and [[Bayley-210|Margaret]] also filed a complaint against a Robert Withrow for assault and won a settlement (of a sum not legible in the record). They seemed to be well established in society."''

==Sources==

*London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; ''Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812;'' Reference Number: P93/DUN/255. Source Information: Ancestry.com. ''London, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812'' ([https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1624&h=1069421&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=Amc5&_phstart=successSource database on-line]). Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. [[Bairfield-1|amb]] 19:47, 10 November 2018 (UTC)

WikiTree profile Pierce-1097 created through the import of Ancestor's that we lost, the Decendants they left behind_2011-08-28_01 (2).ged on Sep 12, 2011 by [[Bryant-1003 | Willette Bryant]]. See the [http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&who=Pierce-1097 Changes page] for the details of edits by Willette and others.

    Events

    DeathAbt 13 Jul 1647Mulberry Island, Richmond, Virginia
    BirthEngland
    Reference No2795987
    Reference No2832923
    Reference No60

    Families

    FatherWilliam Pierce II (1560 - 1622)
    MotherJane Phippen (1580 - 1650)
    SiblingThomas Pierce (1590 - 1622)
    SiblingJane Pierce (1600 - 1625)
    SiblingEdith "Edy" Pierce (1607 - 1644)