| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Second Generation8. Joseph Bearce Sr. was born on 25 January 1651 in Barnstable, Massachusetts (Barnstable). 1652 per some. He was baptized on 25 January 1651 in Barnstable, Massachusetts (Barnstable). He served in the military in 1675/6 in King Phillip's War. Joseph Admitted as townsman. on 5 May 1677 in Barnstable, Massachusetts (Barnstable). He died in 1695 at the age of 44 in Barnstable, Massachusetts (Barnstable). Died 27 Jan 1728 per Ancestral File. He "Joseph Bearce became a praying Indian.". Joseph was 1/2 Wampanoag/Narragansett Indian from mother. "Joseph Bearse, son of Austin and Mary, born Barnstable 1652, 1/2 blood Wampanoag Indian, married 1676 his wife, Martha Taylor 1/4 blood Wampanoag Indian" Joseph Bearce Sr. and Martha Taylor were married on 3 December 1676 in Barnstable, Massachusetts (Barnstable). Martha Taylor, daughter of Richard Taylor and Ruth Whelden, was born on 18 December 1650 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts (Barnstable). She died on 27 January 1727/8 at the age of 77. She was 1/4 Wampanoag Indian from mother. "Joseph Bearse, son of Austin and Mary, born Barnstable 1652, 1/2 blood Wampanoag Indian, married 1676 his wife, Martha Taylor 1/4 blood Wampanoag Indian, daughter of Richard Taylor the tailor, Yarmouth 1639, born in Europe. He (Richard Taylor) was three times the age of his wife, Ruth Wheldon 1/2 blood Wampanoag Indian, born at Yarmouth, daughter of Gabriel Wheldon and his wife Margaret, a full blood Wampanoag Indian" According to "A Contribution to the Genealogy of the Bearse or Bearss Family in America 1618-1871", the following... "her mother was a dau. of Thomas Burgess, an early settler in the vicinity." Joseph Bearce Sr.-25618 and Martha Taylor-25603 had the following children:
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