Descendants of Peter Percy

Notes for Richard Percy, Jr.:
Pierce, Frederick Clifton, Pearce genealogy : being the record of the posterity of Richard Pearce, an early inhabitant of Portsmouth, in Rhode Island, who came from England, and whose genealogy is traced back to 972 : with an introduction of the male descendants of Josceline de Louvaine, the second house of Percy, Earls of Northumberland, Barons Percy and territorial Lords of Alnwick, Warkworth and Prudhoe castles in the county of Northumberland, England,Rockford, Ill.: unknown, 1888, 150 pgs. p. 36:
"Richard, Jr. resided on the homestead of his father and had two sons Richard, Jr., b. 1590, and William. It was at this time that the spelling of the name in this branch was changed from Percy to Pearce."

Children of Richard Pearce are:

1. Richard⁵ PEARCE, b. 1590, Bristol, , England.
2. Capt. William PEARCE, b. abt. 1595, Bristol, England; d. 16 July 1641, Providence, the Bahamas; m. (1) Bridget /--?--/; m. (2) Margaret GIBBS, 1615.

   Notes:
   Captain of ship "Lyon" and was author of an almanac for 1639, first book printed in North America.
   Signed his name as "William Peirce" --Source: "Planters of the Commonwealth" by Charles Edward Banks and other sources

   Killed by Spaniards on a voyage to the island of New Providence, Bahamas Group while taking passengers to that area.

   Residences were Bristol, England; Boston, Massachusetts, and Providence, Bahama Island.

   Copy of Order of Council when the troubles of Charles 1st. commenced with his Parliament. From the original books of the Privy Council:
   1638. "Ordered the twentieth [of April, 1638.] Order for the Desire to passe to New England, with passengers an provisions, upon certificate, etc.:"
   "Upon the humble petition of William Piers, master of the shippe called the Desire, that the Petitioner, with diverse others inhabiting in New England, did lately arryve in the Port of London, in the said shippe being wholly built in New England, whither said master doth nowe desire to return in the same, and did therefore desire the leave of the board, according to his Majesties' late Proclamation, and to transport such Passengers and their necessary provisions of Howshold, as by the certificate shall be gratified according to the Tenor of his Magesties' former Proclamation. Theyre Lordships did this day give leave that the said master and shippe should retorne to New England, together with such passengers and theyre necessary provisions as is desyred and their goods to passe as formerly. Provided that the said certificats of the Passengers be first brought to the Clarke of the Council attendant, to be by him allowed, and that they doe transport noe other passingers or Provisions but such shall be allowed"-[Charles I., Vol 15, #41.]