Lydia Peirce

Brief Life History of Lydia

When Lydia Peirce was born on 20 November 1713, in Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Ephraim Pearce, was 40 and her mother, Mary Whitney, was 38. She died on 24 September 1723, in her hometown, at the age of 9.

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Family Time Line

Ephraim Pearce
1673–1741
Mary Whitney
1675–1749
Mary Pierce
1696–1740
Elizabeth Pierce
1698–
Ephraim Pearce
1700–1781
Sarah Pierce
1702–1723
David Pearce
1704–1746
Jonathan Peirce
1706–1723
Simon Pierce
1707–1790
Abigail Pearce
1710–1800
Lydia Peirce
1713–1723

Sources (4)

  • Seven Pierce families: a record of births, deaths and marriages of the first seven generations of Pierces in America, including a record of the descendants of Abial Pierce to the present by Pierce, Harvey Cushman, 1859- [archive.org]
  • Legacy NFS Source: Lydia Or Lidiah Pierce - death:
  • Lidiah Pearce, "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"

Name Meaning

English: variant of Pierce .

History: The name Peirce first appears in colonial American records in 1623with William Peirce, an English shipmaster who compiled the firstalmanac in English America.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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