Individual Details
Joshua Pierce
(4 May 1741 - 5 Nov 1813)
Events
| Birth | 4 May 1741 | Lancaster, Massachusetts |  | ||
| Marriage | 27 Nov 1766 | Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts - Lydia Goodridge | | ||
| Probate | 1813 |  | |||
| Death | 5 Nov 1813 | Leominster, Worcester, Massachusetts | | | |
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Families
| Spouse | Lydia Goodridge (1740 - 1826) |
| Child | Thomas Stearns Pierce (1767 - 1845) |
| Child | Joshua Pierce (1769 - 1850) |
| Child | Catherine Pierce (1771 - 1841) |
| Child | Jonathan Pierce (1773 - 1842) |
| Child | Asa Pierce (1775 - 1842) |
| Child | Phineas Pierce (1779 - 1836) |
| Child | David S. Pierce (1781 - 1836) |
| Child | Elias Pierce (1784 - 1834) |
| Father | Joshua Pierce (1718 - ) |
| Mother | Lois White (1721 - 1770) |
Notes
Probate
https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/worcester-county-ma-probate-file-papers-1731-1881/image?volumeId=30216&pageName=46762:1&rId=682652401Death
Says lieutenant on gravestonehttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/123077578/joshua-pierce
Military
This may be his service record – ensignhttps://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7726/images/7726-Volume12-0379?ssrc=&backlabel=Return&rc=435%2C719%2C549%2C749%3B438%2C1065%2C550%2C1095%3B439%2C1369%2C552%2C1401%3B443%2C2262%2C554%2C2292%3B443%2C2407%2C555%2C2438%3B443%2C2660%2C556%2C2691%3B443%2C2806%2C555%2C2837%3B592%2C2808%2C708%2C2837%3B585%2C2914%2C704%2C2946&queryId=4ae9aadde9ce53fc4e0e927dc6e84138&pId=3417
Property
Deed index – there are some transactions to childrenhttps://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZH-J749?i=204&wc=MCB2-GM9%3A361612201%2C361636001&cc=2106411
348:335 names the children of David as James M.and Olive L. – 1838 when James M. is of age – helps to identify David’s wife asElizabeth Lawrence – and the following deed has some additional details
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZH-G4BY?i=177&wc=MCBP-NTP%3A361612201%2C362063401&cc=2106411
and one further deed for the heirs of Phineas
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZH-PFY2?i=316&wc=MCBP-V68%3A361612201%2C362068002&cc=2106411
Endnotes
1. Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016), Book Title: Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts : 1638-1900 : in.
2. Ancestry.com, Massachusetts, U.S., Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005).
3. Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016), Book Title: Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts : 1638-1900 : in.
4. Ancestry.com, North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016), Book Title: Genealogy of the Descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts : 1638-1900 : in.