Excerpt from Pierce Genealogy: Being the Record of the Posterity of Capt. Michael, John and Capt. William Pierce, Who Came to This Country From England Of the numerous Pierce, Peirce and Pearce genealogies which I have published, there are none in which the emigrant ancestors were so active and prominent in the early history of the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies as in this particular branch. Three brothers, John, Captain William and Captain Michael, took a lead ing part in the early struggle of the infant colonies in New England. 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.