Benjamin Pierce Esq. (1668 - 1711)

Born 20 Feb 1668 in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts

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Died 19 May 1711 at age 43 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

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Biography

Benjamin "Peirce" (aka Pierce) was born on 17 or 20 February 1668 in Newbury, Essex, (then) Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Daniel "Peirce"^[1] and his wife Elizabeth (Milward) Peirce.

He married Lydia Frost probably not too long before the birth of their first child in August 1693 in Newbury, Massachusetts.^[2]

Benjamin died on 19 May 1711 in Newbury at age 43^[3] and was buried in the First Settlers Burying Ground in Newbury.^[4]

On his tombstone in the grave-yard of Newbury (Old-Town):^[5][4]

Pillar i' th' State he was

Bid fir still

At greater things,

To all ye knew him well,

Pattern of Vertue,

Kind to all was he

Loued by his friends,

Feard of his enemie,

Embalmed in tears

Enuey itselfe stood dumb

Snacht from ye world

In times most troublesome.

Children of Benjamin and Lydia (Frost) Pierce born Newbury, Massachusetts:

1. Daniel, b. 06 Aug 1693;^[6] d. 25 Aug 1693.
2. Charles, b. 03 Feb 1694/5.^[7]
3. Elizabeth, b. 14 Nov 1696.^[6]
4. Daniel, b. 11 Oct 1698.^[6]
5. Benjamin, b. 13 Jun 1700.^[7]
6. Abigail, b. 26 Jan 1702.^[8]
7. John, b. 07 Nov 1703.^[6]
8. Humphrey, b. 23 Mar 1704/5.^[6]
9. Thomas, b. 01 Nov 1706.^[9]
10. Joseph, b. 13 May 1708;^[9] d. 26 May 1708.
11. Samuel, b. 21 Sep 1709.^[9]
12. Eleazer/Eliezer, b. 19 May 1711.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Essex Institute, compiler, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911), Vol. 1:386.

   Peirce, Benjamin, s. Daniel, jr., Feb. 20, 1668. [Feb. 17. CT. R.].

2. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (29 November 2018), Essex > Newbury > Births, marriages, deaths 1635-1735 vol 3 > image 26 of 121; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston. Newbury Town Records, Vol.1, page 45.
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (29 November 2018), Essex > Newbury > Births, marriages, deaths 1635-1736 vol 4 > image 160 of 171; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 12 April 2019), memorial page for Benjamin Pierce (20 Feb 1669–19 May 1711), Find A Grave: Memorial #20630072, citing Burying Ground of the First Settlers, Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA ; Maintained by Nareen, et al (contributor 46613568) .
5. ↑ Nason, Elias, "The Burial-Place at 'Old Town,' Newbury, Ms.," NEHGR Vol. 1(1847):373.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5} Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to 1850 (Salem, Mass. : Essex Institute, 1911) Vol. 1:387.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} VRs of Newbury, Vol. 1:386.
8. ↑ VRs of Newbury, Vol. 1:402.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2} VRs of Newbury, Vol. 1:388.

See also:

• Hoyt, Albert H. "Daniel Peirce, of Newbury, Mass., 1638-1677, and his Descendants", NEHGR Vol. 29, Page 276
• "Peirce Family, Papers, 1692-1991," finding aid/manuscript; electronic PDF file, American Antiquarian Society (accessed 2013). Material cites (a) "Adams, Nathaniel. Annals of Portsmouth ... (Portsmouth, 1825; reprinted Hampton, 1971); (b) "American Antiquarian Society, Printers' File"; (c) Anderson, Joseph Crook, II, and Lois Ware Thurston, eds. Vital Records of Kittery, Maine to the Year 1892 (Camden, 1991); (d) Peirce, Frederick Clinton. Peirce Genealogy ... (Worcester, 1880), pp. 233- 245; (e) Simpson, Henry. The Lives of Eminent Philadelphians Now Deceased (Philadelphia, 1859); (f) Stackpole, Everett S. Old Kittery and Her Families (Lewiston, 1903); (g) Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts ... (Salem, 1911), 2 vols.
• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register, 4 vols. (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862) 3 (1861): 426-432, "Pierce"; digital images, Internet Archive (accessed 2013).
• Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, 2 vols. (1911)

1:386 for Benjamin Peirce (b. 1668[/9]); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2013).

2 (Deaths):686 for Benjamin Peirce (d. 1711); digital images, Hathi Trust (accessed 2013).

2: 604 for Lydia Greenleaf (d. 1752); digital images, _Hathi Trust_ (accessed 2013).

• John Eldridge Frost, The Nicholas Frost Family (1943), p. 10-17 for Major Charles Frost (b1631-3); digital images, Ancestry.com (accessed 2013).