1737, Abigail Hoskins, settled in Spencer, Massachusetts. 3. Naomi, born October 1, 1719, married, April 22, 1747, Josiah Jones, died in the military service November, 1762. 4. Jonathan, born March 23, 1723. 5. Richard, born April 15, 1725, mentioned below. 6. Hilkiah, born October 19, 1727, married Hannah Briggs; he was sergeant in the French and Indian war; was also in Revolutionary

war.

(IV) Richard Pierce or Peirce, son of Thomas Pierce or Peirce (3), was born in Middleborough, Massachusetts, April 15, 1725. Married, December 12, 1745, Mary Simmons, born October 9, 1723, daughter of Abraham and Ann (Lee) Simmons, granddaughter of John Simmons, of Freetown; great-granddaughter of Moses Simmons, Jr., the son of Moses, the immigrant, who came over in 1621. He married (second) Lois De Moranville, his first wife being separated from him. Richard Pierce was elected a deer ward in 1752. He was a soldier in the Revolution, a sergeant in Captain Abiel Peirce's company (Second Middleborough) of militia, which marched on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, to Marshfield, Massachusetts. He was corporal in Captain Levi Rounsevel's company, Colonel David Brewer's regiment (9th), at Roxbury, in the summer of 1775; also private in Captain Elisha Haskell's company, Colonel Benjamin Hawes's regiment, in the Rhode Island campaign of 1778. His son, Richard, Jr., was also a soldier, serving three years in the Continental army.

Children of Richard and Mary Pierce : I. Zilpah, born June 9, 1746, married, October 30, 1770, Michael Mosher, a soldier in the Revolution. 2. Jesse, born July 12, 1747. 3. Richard, Jr., married, August 29, 1776, Lydia Booth, of Middleborough, and (second), November 28, 1789, Sarah Booth. Children of Richard and Lois (De Moranville) Pierce: 4. Abner, born April 2, 1778, married Lydia Chase. 5. Naomi, born January 19, 1782, married, August 16, 1798, Lewis de Moranville, of New Bedford. 6. Russell, born June 25, 1784, married Sybil Chase, of Freetown; she died May 24, 1855, aged seventy-one years, nine months; he lived at Long Plain, Rochester, Massachusetts. 7. Thomas, born March 1, 1787, married, 1818, Phebe Strange, daughter of Lot Strange, of Freetown, Thomas died April 24, 1850, and was buried in Freetown. 8. Eli, born January 23, 1789. 9. Levi, born May 25, 1792, died young. 10. born March 14, 1794, married

Preserved,

Webster.

II. Zadoc, born April 19, 1796. 12. Phillip

P., born January 30, 1798, mentioned below. 13. Lois, married Dunham. 14. Lemuel, married Rebecca C. Glover. (See Peirce Genealogy by Ebenezer W. Peirce, page 88.)

(V) Philip Paddleford Pierce, son of Richard Pierce or Peirce (4), was born in Middleborough, January 30, 1798, and was educated in the common schools there. He was a ship carpenter by trade, but in his youth went on a whaling voyage, as most young men of that section did. He was an old-line Democrat in politics, and a Christian Baptist in religion. He resided at Fall River, New Bedford and finally in Boston, where he died September 25, 1840, in a drowning accident while at work at his trade. He married, at Assonet, Mary Strange Keith, born 1801 in Wareham, Massachusetts, and was a school teacher before marriage, the daughter of Joseph and Mary (Strange) Keith. Her mother was a daughter of Lot Strange, of Assonet, Massachusetts.. Children: Mary, married George Newhall. Caroline, married Thomas Heath. Adeline,. resides in Charlestown, Massachusetts. George W., born August 5, 1835, mentioned below. Philip, resides in Chicago.

(VI) George Washington Pierce, son of Philip P. Pierce (5), was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, August 5, 1835. His father died when he was less than five years old, leaving his mother with four children, and another born six months later. The mother had. a hard time to support herself and family, and at the end of ten years of hard work she too died. Mary, the eldest daughter, was sixteen years old when her father died and for fouryears she helped her mother, then she married and the mother upon the advice of her brother in Fall River moved to that city. The twoelder daughters at home, Adeline and Caroline, worked in the mills to support the little family..

After the death of the mother George resided for a time with his sisters who had married. He had a common school education. In 1852, at the age of seventeen, he enlisted in the American navy. He served at one time on the famous old "Cumberland." After his term expired he re-enlisted, and his second term expired before the Civil war broke out. He enlisted in the army and served through the Civil war and remained in the regular army afterward until 1876. He became a temperance lecturer of some prominence and was finally ordained as a minister. He was a member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Fall River in his youth. Mr. Pierce is now residing at Sycamore street, Somerville.