From these have descended hundreds, if not thousands, of our citizens. In some branches the name is written Pierce, and by others Peirce, which is thought to be the orthography of the early generations succeeding the immigrant.1314
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Many notable family members are descendants of this George Peirce Sr.3
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Resident of Thornbury Township, Delaware, PA.1284
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This source shows marriage date as 1/4/1697.1315
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George a native of Winscom, county Somerset, England George and his wife and their three small children migrated to Pennsylvania, and settled in what he named Thornbury township, Chester county, after the home of his wife in England. He took up a tract of land there and became prominent in the colony, as have been his descendants of the colony and state to the present time [1911]. He represented Chester county in the Provincial Assembly in 1706.1316
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George Peirce born in Somerset, England and lived in Thornbury Township, Chester County, PA was a landowner and Pennsylvania Legislator in 1706. Died circa 1734 in East Marlborough Township.1317
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George Peirce who got the farmland land grant in 1700 [Correction: 1701] from William Penn for what is today Longwood Gardens.1318,1319

George and Ann Gayner Pearce bought land from W[illia]m. Penn and settled in Chester County PA in 1684. In 1716 he changed the name to Peirce. One parcel of land became known as Peirce's Park and his house on that parcel is now headquarters of Longwood Gardens a public place owned by the DuPonts. I have his pedigree and several thousand descendants in my own computer. The Peirces were Quakers and so there are extensive Quaker records in which they can be found.1320

Note: Longwood Gardens located 30 miles outside Philadelphia at Kennett Square is described as "America's premier public display garden," and a popular tourist attraction.3
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In East Marlborough, George Peirce obtained a patent, 12, 14, 1700–1, for land which included the present Peirce’s Park, or "Evergreen Glade," as it was named by the owner. George Peirce conveyed it to his son Joshua, 6, 6, 1725, who devised to his son Caleb, 8, 23, 1752.

Samuel and Joshua, sons of the latter, established the botanical garden or arboretum thereon, and were succeeded by the late George W. Peirce, son of Joshua. Part of the house was built in 1730.

George Peirce the first also gave to his daughter Betty and her husband, Vincent Caldwell, 200 acres adjoining. After their deaths it was purchased by Caleb Peirce, in 1758, and is now in possession of his great grandchildren of the Cox family. Longwood meeting-house and cemetery are situated on a part thereof.1321
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When George and Ann arrived in Chester, PA (near Philadelphia) from Bristol, England and settled on their 410 acre land grand that they received from William Penn in what is now Thornbury Township, Delaware County, PA, there were already other Peirce families here in the New World.1315
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George Peirce migrated from Bristol, England in 1684 and had a tract of 490 acres surveyed to him in (Thornbury?)

An elder of the Society of Friends [Quaker]

“George Pierce, likely a brother of Henry Sr., lived in Thornbury and married into the Pyle family. In July 1711 he bacame part owner, along with six others (Nicholas Pyle, Nathan Baker, William Bennett, William Brinton, James Gibbons and Benjamin Mendenhall of the Society Mill on the site of the first mill constructed in Concord. In his will of 1734 he left his share to his three sons (Josua, Gainer and Caleb)...” (p 89 Prosperity and Progress: Concord Township Pennsylvania, 1683-1983).1313

[Is this the same George?]
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WILL:

'PIERCE, GEORGE. E. Marlborough, yeoman. January 19, 1733/34.

Provides for wife Ann including all claims due from either of her former husbands. To son Joshua £50 also my share of Society Mill at Concord. To son Caleb 1/3 of d. To son Gainer the remainder 1/3 of said mills also my share in Thornbury School house. To daughter Betty Caldwell £50. To daughter Ann Gibbons £30. To daughter Mary wife of Joseph Brinton £50. To daughter Hannah wife of Edward Brinton £50. To gransdson George Peirce son of Gainer £50 when 21, with rev to his 4 sisters, viz Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah and Susanna. Books to seven children. Household goods to 4 daughters. Remainder to grandchildren.

Executors: Wife Ann, sons Joshua and Caleb.
Letters to sons, wife renouncing.
Witnesses: Wm. Webb, Thomas Harlan, Samuel Pyle.
Probate: July 27, 1734. A. 418.1285