Category: Frederick Clifton Pierce Fraud
Categories: Frauds and Fabrications
Frederick Clifton Peirce, later Pierce, included fraudulent genealogies in his Pierce genealogy books, which faked connections between Pierce family lines with no actual evidence, and faked linkages to illustrious English families. His information was incorporated into subsequent books by other authors, so it has contaminated the work of multiple generations of genealogists.
The four books on Pierce genealogy of which he was sole author or a primary author are:
- Peirce Genealogy, Being the Record of the Posterity of John Pers, An Early Inhabitant of Watertown, In New England; With Notes on the History of Other Families of Peirce, Pierce, Pearce, ETC. By Frederick Clifton Peirce, Esq., 1880. [1] (another)
- Pierce Genealogy, Being the Record of The Posterity of Thomas Pierce, An Early Inhabitant of Charlestown, And Afterwards Charlestown Village (Woburn), In New England, With Wills, Inventories, Biographical Sketches, ETC. By Frederic Beech Pierce, Of Boston, Assisted and Edited by Frederick Clifton Peirce, Esq., 1882. [2] (another) (another)
- Pearce Genealogy Being the Record of The Posterity of Richard Pearce An Early Inhabitant of Portsmouth, in Rhode Island, Who Came From England, And Whose Genealogy Is Traced Back to 972 with An Introduction of the Male Descendants of Josceline De Louvaine, The Second House of Percy and Territorial Lords of Alnwick, Warkworth and Prudhoe Castles in the County of Northumberland, England, By Col. Frederick C. Pierce, 1888. [3] (another)
- Pierce Genealogy, No. IV, Being the Record of the Posterity of Capt. Michael, John and Capt. William Pierce, Who Came to This Country From England, By Frederick Clifton Pierce, 1889. [4] (another) (another)
- Pierce, F.C. (1899). Foster genealogy, Part 1, pp.14 - 15. Chicago: W.B. Conkey Co.[5].
See discussion here: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/379851/should-pierces-genealogy-frauds_and_fabrications-category?
Also see a very detailed study by Michael D Pierce here: https://rkkeyes.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/captain-michael-pierce-and-the-fake-genealogy-of-frederick-clifton-pierce-1.pdf
Other family names for which F.C Pierce wrote genealogies include: Batchelder, Field, Fisk, Forbes, Forbush, Foster, and Whitney
He also wrote a history of Grafton, Massachusetts.
Online resources:
- Works by Frederick Clifton Pierce on archive.org
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