Ancestry of
John Lithgow

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William Peirce

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18 
  • Father:
  • Proctor Peirce 
  • Mother:
  • Susanna Newton   
  • Birth Date:
  • 7 Feb 1806 
  • Birth Location:
  • Greenfield, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 May 1883 
  • Death Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ellen Prentiss
  • Marriage Date:
  • 7 Jun 1831 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  Ellen Prentiss Peirce (Ahnentafel No:9 )

  Isaac Newton Peirce

• Sources for William Peirce

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Andover, Vol. 1, p. 305, Birth record for daughter Ellen Prentiss Pierce.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Charlestown, Vol. 163, p. 67, Marriage for Washington Lithgow and daughter Ellen P Pierce.
  • ³ NEHGS Membership Applications, 1845-1900, Vol. 1859, p. 77, Application for William Pierce.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1908, Vol. 62, Supplement, pp. lxxiv - lxxv.
  • ⁵ 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), 87.
  • ⁶ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 1802.
  • ⁷ Leonard, Ermina Newton, Newton Genealogy, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical: Being a Record of the Descendants of Richard Newton . . ., New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company (1915), 710.

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