Ancestry of
John Lithgow

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John Peirce

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 306 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Pierce 
  • Mother:
  • Mary -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1664 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Sep 1716 
  • Death Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Phipps Street Burying Ground, Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Mudge
  • Marriage Date:
  • 4 Feb 1691/1692 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Mercy Peirce (Ahnentafel No:153 )

  • Notes: 

  • John Peirce's surname is also seen as Pierce.

• Sources for John Peirce

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/23/2022).
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Charlestown, Vol. 1, p. 258, Birth record for daughter Mercy Peirce.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Charlestown, Vol. 1, p. 151, Marriage record for John Peirce and Elizabeth Mudge.
  • ⁴ 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.
  • ⁵ 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), 266, 268-269.
  • ⁶ Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 Vols., Hillburn, NY: Privately Printed (1939), Vol. 1, p. 260.

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