Ancestry of
Benjamin Pierce

(1726–1764)

Thomas Pierce

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Benjamin Pierce — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1583 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Oct 1666 
  • Death Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth -----
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  Samuel Pierce

  Thomas Pierce Jr. (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  Mary Pierce

• Sources for Thomas Pierce

  • ¹ Charlestown, MA: Vital Records to 1850, Vol. 1, p. 50, Death record for Thomas Pierse.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1853, Vol. 7, pp. 9-10.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1897, Vol. 51, p. 299.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1979, Vol. 55, p. 144.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 264.
  • ⁶ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 419-420.
  • ⁷ Crane, Ellery Bicknell, ed., Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1907), 449.
  • ⁸ Pierce, Frederic Beech, Pierce Genealogy: Being the Record of the Posterity of Thomas Pierce, An Early Inhabitant of Charlestown . . ., Worcester: Press of Chas. Hamilton (1882), xvii.
  • ⁹ Pierce, Harvey Cushman, Seven Pierce Families: A Record of Births, Deaths and Marriages of the First Seven Generations of Pierces in America, Strasburg, Virginia: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc. (1936), 265.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#66 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: New England Ancestors of Depression-Era Novelist John Steinbeck", (accessed 10/16/2014).
  • ¹¹ Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 Vols., Hillburn, NY: Privately Printed (1939), Vol. 1, pp. 257-258.
  • ¹² Stratton, Harriet Russell, A Book of Strattons: Being a Collection of Stratton Records from England and Scotland, and a Genealogical . . ., Vol. 1, p. 189.