Ancestry of
John Lithgow

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Mercy Peirce

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of John Lithgow — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 153 
  • Father:
  • John Peirce 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Mudge   
  • Birth Date:
  • 22 Jun 1714 
  • Birth Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Feb 1790 
  • Death Location:
  • Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Jonas Prentiss
  • Marriage Date:
  • 22 Apr 1736 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Nathaniel Prentiss (Ahnentafel No:76 )

• Sources for Mercy Peirce

  • ¹ An Historic Guide to Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Hannah Winthrop Chapter, N.S.D.A.R. (1907), 144.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 2, p. 704, Death record for Mercy Prentiss.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Cambridge, Vol. 2, p. 315, Marriage of Jonas Prentice and Mary Pierce, in Charlestown.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Charlestown, Vol. 1, p. 329, Marriage record for Jonas Prentice and Mercy Pierce.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Charlestown, Vol. 1, p. 258, Birth record for Mercy Peirce.
  • ⁶ Binney, Charles James Fox, The History and Genealogy of the Prentice, or Prentiss Family, in New England, Etc., from 1631 to 1883, 2nd Edition, Boston: Published by the Editor (1883), 18-19.
  • ⁷ 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), 269.

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