NameBetty PEIRCE 1684,1282
Birth Date18 Sep 16801285,1283
Birth PlaceGloucester, Gloucestershire, ENGLAND
Death Date27 Dec 1757748 Age: 77
Birth Date18 Sep 1680
Birth PlaceGloucestershire, ENGLAND
FatherGeorge PEIRCE Sr. (~1655-1733)
MotherAnn GAINER (~1663-<1725)
Misc. Notes
After the death of her husband Vincent, Betty did not marry again, though she survived him thirty-seven years, having removed to Wilmington a short time before her death, which happened in 1757, in the seventy-seventh year of her age.

She lived an exemplary life, attending strictly to her religious duties, and towards it's close appeared in the ministry. They had five daughters.1685
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Betty's name is found in the 1753 list of "East Marlborough Taxables."1686
Spouses
Birth Date16741684
Death Date17201685
Misc. Notes
Resident of Marlborough, formerly of Derbyshire.1282
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CALDWELL, Vincent came from Derbyshire, England, about the year 1699, and brought a certificate to Darby Monthly Meeting, of which, for a time, he was a member. Though a young unmarried man, he was a preacher of some note, and during his sojourn at Darby made a religious visit to Maryland with the approbation of the meeting.

In 1703 he was married to Betty Peirce, daughter of George Peirce, of Thornbury, and soon after settled in Marlborough, Chester Co., where he died in 1720, aged forty-five years. He continued to be an approved minister till his death.1685
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Vincent's name is listed in the 1715 Tax Roll of Marlborough Township, Chester, PA, organized about 1704.1687
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"In 1707 Vincent Caldwell, Thomas Wickersham, Joel Bailey [Caldwell's son-in-law?], Thomas Hope, Guyan Miller, and others, being settled in Kennet and the east end of Marlborough, had liberty to keep a meeting for worship sometimes in private houses. In the year 1710 a piece of land was purchased and a meeting-house built, which was enlarged in 1719; in 1731 it was further enlarged."1688
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9, 11, 1717.— "The friends that wear appointed to seek & settle a suitable place in Kennett to Build a meeting house upon reports that that part of Vincent Caldwell’s Land that Lyes betwixt the two roads that goes to Notingham and into the woods seems to them most Proper, but some of the friends of that meeting Request another Quarter’s time for Consideration, where they may settle the same to their Generall satisfaction."1689

[A number of Caldwells are listed in this publication. Relatives and descendants of Vincent's?.1690]
Family ID1097
Marr Date11 Aug 17031285,1691
Misc. Notes

December 29, 1701

Land Patent
George Pierce to Vincent and Bettie Caldwell signed by Commissioners of William Penn; Edward Shippen, Griffith Owen, Thomas Story, James Logan1692

From Cox House Chain of Title. The home known as “Longwood” in Kennett Square, Chester county, PA, in 1829 would became the property of John and Hannah (Peirce) Cox, abolistionists and part of the Underground Railroad. Hannah (Peirce) Cox was the great-grandneice of Bettie (Peirce) Caldwell.3
ChildrenMary (~1706-)
 Hannah (1711-)
 Ann
Last Modified 23 Oct 2010Created 17 May 2017 Rick Gleason - ricksgenealogy@gmail.com