Ancestry of
Franklin Pierce

14th U.S. President

Dorcas -----

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Franklin Pierce — 6th Generation
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  • 59 
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  • 12 Jan 1702/1703 
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  • Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • John Pearson
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  Elizabeth Pearson

  Phebe Pearson (Ahnentafel No:29 )

  Stephen Pearson

  Dorcas Pearson

• Sources for Dorcas -----

  • ¹ Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, 1908, Vol. 44, p. 352.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 364, Marriage record for John Hobson and Dorcas Pearson.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 2, p. 22, Death record for Pierson, aged wid. Dea. John.
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1979, Vol. 55, p. 144.
  • ⁵ Brogan, Hugh and Charles Mosley, American Presidential Families, New York: Macmillan Publishing Company (1993), 420-421.
  • ⁶ McLean, Hulda Hoover, Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family, Stanford, California: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University (1967), fold-out chart between pages 4 and 5.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 478.