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Book Title: History Of Durham, Maine

PIERCE.

   Thomas Pierce, Esq. was descended from Capt. Michael Pierce who came from
England to America in 1645. He settled in Scituate, Mass., and was killed by
Indians 26 March 1676. Thomas was son of Seth B. and Jemima (Turner) Pierce of
Scituate. He was born 26 Aug. 1767; m. (1) 2 June 1793, Anna Beal, b. 4 Oct.
1771, d. 28 Feb. 1827; m. (2) 23 Jan. 1833 the widow of his brother John Pierce,
nee Mercy Merritt of Scituate, b. 24 Jan. 1784, d. 4 April 1838. In his early
years he was a sea-going man and made voyages to the West Indies as master
mariner. He moved to Durham in 1800 and settled on lot 35, bought of Ezekiel
Jones, the farm now owned by David Crockett. He was a surveyor and ran out many
a line in Durham, Free-port, and Lisbon. Tradition says that he was sometimes
shot at with salt and peas by discontented parties, while he was surveying. He
was one of the Selectmen of Durham and for many years Justice of Peace.
Twenty-seven marriages were performed by him in Durham between 1818 and 1831.
After the latter date he moved to Lisbon and died there 21 June 1850.

   SETH b. 3 June 1796; practiced medicine at Webster Corner. Justice of Peace;
d. in Durham 5 May 1826.

   LUCY B. b. 30 June 1798; m. 5 Nov. 1820 Solomon Crossman; d. 12 April 1868.

   EMILY b. 30 Dec. 1804; m. 28 Nov. 1824 James Booker; d. 21 Aug. 1897.

   ANNA B. b. 5 April 1807; m. 20 Dec. 1829 Joseph Moore, who was born in
Newfield 3 Dec. 1803, and died in Lisbon 9 Sept. 1855. She d. 25 April 1880.
They had ch. ELVIRA, m. Julius M. Corbett of Lisbon, ELIZA, ALONZO, GEORGE,
JOSEPH E., AUGUSTUS, and THOMAS A. The Hon. Joseph E. Moore of Thomaston
graduated at Bowdoin College in 1865, has been member of the House, is an
Overseer of Bowdoin College and prominent as a lawyer and leader in the
Democratic party.

   IRA b. 14 Aug. 1810; m. (1) Phebe Stevens; (2) Julia B. Townsend; d. at
Kenosha, Wis., 8 Jan. 1869.


Additional Comments:
Part of Chapter XII.
GENEALOGICAL NOTES

Extracted from:

HISTORY OF DURHAM, MAINE
WITH GENEALOGICAL NOTES.

BY EVERETT S. STACKPOLE.

PUBLISHED BY VOTE OF TOWN.

LEWISTON: PRESS OF LEWISTON JOURNAL COMPANY. 
1899.


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