When John V Pierce was born in 1801, in New York, United States, his father, Daniel Pierce, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Brown, was 43. He married Abigail Cole about 1821, in Washington, Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Ward, Allegany, New York, United States in 1860 and Hume, Allegany, New York, United States in 1865. In 1865, at the age of 64, his occupation is listed as farmer (own land) in Allegany, New York, United States. He died on 8 August 1873, in Alfred, Allegany, New York, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Pierce Cemetery, Ward, Allegany, New York, United States.
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France sells Louisiana territories to U.S.A.
Historical Boundaries 1808: Allegany, New York, United States
The Missouri Compromise helped provide the entrance of Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state into the United States. As part of the compromise, slavery was prohibited north of the 36°30′ parallel, excluding Missouri.
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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