Benjamin Pierce

Father of New Hampshire Governor Benjamin Pierce and grandfather of President Franklin Pierce.

From Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2. Ezra S. Stearns, William Frederick Whitcher, Edward Everett Parker. Lewis Publishing Company, 1908 - New Hampshire - 2067 pages. Page 558.

PIERCE

This well-known New Hampshire family not only possesses an honorable Colonial record, but figured prominently in the war for national independence, and is especially distinguished as having furnished the fourteenth president of the United States.

(V) Benjamin, youngest child of Stephen and Esther (Fletcher) Pierce, was born in Chelmsford, November 25, 1726. He was a lifelong resident of Chelmsford, and his death, which was untimely, occurred June 16, 1764. His wife, who was Elizabeth (Merrill) Pierce, of Mcthuen, Massachusetts, born February 22, 1728, survived him and married for her second husband a Mr. Bowers,.

Benjamin Pierce was the father of nine children, namely:

1. Rebecca,
2. Jesse and
3. Phebe (twins),
4. Lydia,
5. Leakey,
6. Susanna,
7. Benjamin,
8. Esther and
9. Merrill.

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  • Pierce, Frederic Beech. Pierce genealogy : being the record of the posterity of Thomas Pierce, an early inhabitant of Charlestown and afterwords Charlestown Village (Woburn), in New England, with wills, biographical sketches, etc. (Worcester Mass.: unknown, 1882), p. 38, 55. "Benjamin Pierce [#195], s/o Stephen Pierce [#80] and Esther Fletcher, b. 25 Nov 1726, d. 16 Jun 1764, m. Elizabeth Merrill of Methuen. She m. (2) a Mr. Bowers."

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