Ancestry of
Benjamin Pierce

(1757–1839)

Joan -----

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Benjamin Pierce — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 25 
  • Father:
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1628 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 8 Feb 1717/1718 
  • Death Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Merrill
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 Oct 1661 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  John Merrill (Ahnentafel No:12 )

  • Notes: 

  • Joanna's maiden name may have been Ninian or Kinney.

• Sources for Joan -----

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 321, Marriage record for Nathaniel Merril and Joan Ninny (Kinny?).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Newbury, Vol. 2, p. 658, Death record for Joan Merrill.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1979, Vol. 55, p. 143.
  • ⁴ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 420-421.
  • ⁵ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, n.p.: n.p. (1938), 1041.