When Jane Dicks was born on 4 November 1751, in Providence Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America, her father, Peter Dicks III, was 55 and her mother, Sarah Swaffer, was 40. She married John Peirce on 7 November 1786, in Concordville, Concord Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 10 February 1833, in Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Chester, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States.
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English: variant of Dick , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: variant of Dykes .
North German and Dutch: genitive patronymic from the personal name Dick . In North America, this surname may also be an altered form of the much more common Dutch variant Diks.
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