Capt. Nathan Pierce

A Patriot of the American Revolution for MASSACHUSETTS with the rank of CAPTAIN. DAR Ancestor # A091546

Green mountain Boys- Col. Seth Warner-

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From Frederick Clifton Pierce's 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

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141. Capt. Nathan Pierce (Nathan, Mial, Ephraim, Ephraim, Michael),

• b. Jan. 22, 1745;
• m. Jan. 10, 1765, Sarah Davis.
• He d. 1776, and she m. 2nd, a Nathan Herndeen. Res. Lanesborough, Mass.

Capt. Nathan Pierce, the son of Rev. Nathan, was born in Rehoboth, Mass., in 1745. He was a farmer, but having learned the trade of silversmith, carried that on in connection with his farm. He was united in marriage in Rehoboth. Jan. 15, 1776, he enlisted in a regiment of Green Mountain Boys under command of Col. Seth Warner. They were transferred soon after with horses and sleighs to Newport.

Feb. 13, 1776. His company had left St. Johns for Montreal, as certified by the commissary, David Henry.

Feb. 19, 1776. His company was ordered to leave Montreal and proceed with " all possible expedition " to the camp before Quebec and then join the army under command of General Arnold. The order embraced Capts. Hinman and Pierce.

Apr. 9, 1776. He writes from camp before Quebec to James Barker, of Lanesborough, of their arrival Feb. 28. All his men except two were sick with small-pox, he had partially recovered from it.

May 4, 1776. Muster-roll records. Camp before Quebec, Capt. Nathan Pierce sick in quarters. No mention of him later, as soldier.

He died on the Island of Three Sisters, near Quebec, May 19, 1776. His widow, Sarah (Davis) Pierce, was married about 1782, to Nathan Herndeen and moved to New York, settling in Farrington, she died and was buried in the Friends' Burying-ground.

Deed from Jonathan Brooks of Lanesborough, to Nathan Pierce of Rehoboth, was recorded in Great Barrington, July 4, 1776, in Book No. 12, page 136, by Mark Hopkins, Register.

Another, given Aug. 16, 1776, by John Tibbets (or Jonathan), of Lanesborough, to Sarah Peirce, widow, and Sarah Peirce and Nathan Peirce and Lydia Peirce and Cromwell Peirce, all infants.

This deed was recorded also at Great Barrington, dated Sept. 15, 1785, Book No. 22, page 49. Moses Hopkins, Register.

Another given by Hicock Hubbell to Nathan Peirce, both of Lanesborough, Dec. 15, 1789, was recorded at Cheshire, Nov. 12, 1794, Book No. 3, page 429. James Barker, Register.

Children:

• 1. Sarah, b. ; m. John McLowth. She died and was buried in York, Mich., leaving two children, Cromwell and Daraxa.
• 2. Nathan, b. 1770; m. Polly McLowth.
• 3. Lydia, b. ; m. Benjamin Wheeler. Her only dau. m. William Davis; res. York, Mich.
• 4. Cromwell, b. ; d. young.

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