When Samuel Pierce was born on 24 February 1791, in Rhode Island, United States, his father, Daniel Pierce, was 28 and his mother, Elizabeth Brown, was 32. He married Susan White in 1816, in Allegany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Alfred, Allegany, New York, United States in 1850. He died on 3 April 1865, in Milton, Rock, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Milton, Rock, Wisconsin, United States.
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The Eleventh Amendment restricts the ability of any people to start a lawsuit against the states in federal court.
Historical Boundaries: 1806: Allegany, New York, United States
On January 9, 1811, the USS Revenge hits a reef off of Watch Hill, Rhode Island. The load the ship is carrying is handed off to other ships and the USS Revenge is tied down by tow ropes. It brakes free from the ropes and later sinks. In 2011 divers find what are believed to be the remains of the ship.
English, Welsh, and Irish: from the Anglo-Norman French and Middle English personal name Piers, Peres, Peris, an Old French nominative of Pierre or Per, the French form of Peter . Pierce is especially frequent in northwestern Wales and Lancashire, while Pearce is the more common spelling in the rest of England. In Ireland Pierce and Pearse represent a shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Piarais ‘son of Piaras’, a Gaelicized form of Piers.
Americanized form of some similar-sounding Jewish surname.
History: Franklin Pierce (1804–69), 14th president of the US, was born in Hillsborough, NH, on the New England frontier. His English ancestor Thomas Pierce emigrated to Charlestown, MA, in 1633/34.
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