By Thurber H. Bierce & Lisle Cottrell

Variations include: Bearss, Bearse, Barce, Bears, Bierce

Augustine or Austin Bearse, emigrated to America in the year 1638 from Southampton, England aboard the ship "Confidence". There is little known about his early life. This book contains various charts and information on ancestors of the Bierce family that came to America, beginning with Augustine Bearse and concluding with Byron Bierce.

(289p., Illus., Index, 1962)