Ancestry of
John Lithgow

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Proctor Peirce

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of John Lithgow — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 36 
  • Father:
  • Abraham Peirce 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Page   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Mar 1768 
  • Birth Location:
  • New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 27 Apr 1821 
  • Death Location:
  • Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Newton
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 Jun 1802 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Greenfield, Franklin, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  William Peirce (Ahnentafel No:18 )

• Sources for Proctor Peirce

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, New Salem, Vol. 1, p. 146, Death record for Proctor Pierce at Boston.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Greenfield, Vol. 1, p. 208, Marriage record for Proctor Pierce and Susannah Newton.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, New Salem, Vol. 1, p. 39, Birth record for Proctor Pierce.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Cambridge, Vol. 94, p. 42, Death record for spouse Susanna Pierce.
  • ⁵ NEHGS Membership Applications, 1845-1900, Vol. 1859, p. 77, Application for William Pierce.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1908, Vol. 62, Supplement, pp. lxxiv - lxxv.
  • ⁷ The Historical Collections of the Danvers Historical Society, Vol. 5, Danvers, Massachusetts: Publioshed by the Society (1917), 98-99.
  • ⁸ The New Salem Sesqui-Centennial: Report of the Addresses and Proceedings of the Celebration of the . . ., Atho, Massachusetts: Transcript Book and Job Print (1904), 55-56.
  • ⁹ 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.
  • ¹⁰ 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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