Ancestry of
Franklin Pierce

14th U.S. President

Thomas Pierce Jr.

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Franklin Pierce — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Pierce 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1618 
  • Birth Location:
  • England 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 6 Nov 1683 
  • Death Location:
  • Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Cole
  • Marriage Date:
  • 6 May 1635 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Charlestown (now Boston), Suffolk, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Stephen Pierce (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  Samuel Pierce

  James Pierce

  • Notes: 

  • Some secondary sources list the marriage date and location for Thomas Pierce and Elizabeth Cole as 06 MAY 1635 in Charlestown (now Boston), Massachusetts. I have not been able to find any evidence to support this. In fact, I have not found any evidence that Thomas Pierce was in New England by 1635. He is not included in Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration series which casts doubt on the marriage date and location.

• Sources for Thomas Pierce Jr.

  • ¹ New England Ancestors Magazine, Fall 2005, Vol. 6, Iss. 4, p. 40.
  • ² The American Genealogist, 1979, Vol. 55, p. 143.
  • ³ Woburn, MA: Vital Records to 1873, p. 8005, Birth record for son James Pierce.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Vol. 1, A-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1995), 429.
  • ⁵ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 419-421.
  • ⁶ Crane, Ellery Bicknell, ed., Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1907), 449.
  • ⁷ Pierce, Frederic Beech, Pierce Genealogy: Being the Record of the Posterity of Thomas Pierce, An Early Inhabitant of Charlestown . . ., Worcester: Press of Chas. Hamilton (1882), xvii.
  • ⁸ Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 Vols., Hillburn, NY: Privately Printed (1939), Vol. 1, pp. 257, 260-262, 271.