Joshua Pierce (1722 - 1771)

Born 1 Apr 1722 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts

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Died 13 Feb 1771 at age 48 in Hudson, Hillsborough, New Hampshire

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Biography

Joshua Pierce was born in Woburn, MA on April 1, 1722 to James Pierce and Phebe Reed Pierce. [1,2] James married Esther Richardson on October 27, 1753.[3] Their children included Esther (1754), Joshua (1756), Susannah (1758), Phebe (1761), Daniel (1763), Nathan (1766), and James (1768). James died in Hudson, New Hampshire on February 13, 1771.[1,2]

Death

Death:

Date: 1771

SDATE 1 JUL 1771

Sources

• 1. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47678749 : Gravestone shows date of death; website shows date and place of birth and death and has link to spouse's gravesite information.

• 2. "New Hampshire Deaths and Burials, 1784-1949," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDVN-6WG : 12 December 2014), Joshua Pierce, 13 Feb 1771; citing Hudson, Hillsborough, New Hampshire; FHL microfilm 2,167,545.

• 3. The Richardson memorial, comprising a full history and genealogy of the posterity of the three brothers, Ezekiel, Samuel, and Thomas Richardson, who came from England, and united with others in the foundation of Woburn, Massachusetts, in the year 1641, of John Richardson, of Medfield, 1679, of Amos Richardson, of Boston, 1640, of Edward and William Richardson, of Newbury, 1643, with notices of Richardsons in England and elsewhere .. by Vinton, John Adams, 1801-1877, Publication date 1876, page 58; https://archive.org/details/richardsonmemori00vint

• compiled by William Addams Reitwiesner, Ancestry of George W. Bush-Barbara Pierce, web page, (http://hometown.aol.com/wreitwiesn/candidates2000/bush.html, based almost entirely on the unpublished work of Michael E. Pollock, 1999), "Electronic."

Acknowledgments

• Thank you to Claire Smith for creating WikiTree profile Peirce-304 through the import of smithwiki.ged on Jul 1, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Claire and others.