Pierce, Stephen (b. ABT 1679, d. ?)

Note: Barbara Pierce Bush descends from a 3rd cousin of this man, but we have no direct relationship with the Pierces

Event: Type: Political Office
Place: Governor of New Hampshire

Occupation: Place: 14th President Of The Uni

Note: Military: Lieutenant

Note: It is said she was carrying her child (probably Sarah) fleeing from the
Indians and she stumbled and fell over the child in such a way that the
Indians, after killing her, did not notice the child, who then survived.

Note: Resided Haverhill, Massachusetts.

Occupation: Place: Blacksmith

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Billerica Births, Page 111

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Billerica Deaths, Page 371

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Billerica Britns, p. 16

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Billerica Deaths, page 371

Note: Resided at Hampton, New Hampshire and Haverhill, Mass. Resident of West
Parish, 1745.
Alarm list for French and Indian War, Established 14 Apr 1757.
Deacon, 1771-1782
Deeded 90 acres of land to his son, Jesse, in 1779, in Salem, N.H.

Source: (Birth Field)
http://members.aol.com/sarandall/genealogy/d0002/g0000006.htm#I0219

Source: (Birth Field)
http://www.e-info-sys.com/html/d0007/g0000095.html

Note: Thomas moved from Woburn to Billerica about 1667 and settled, it is believed,
on a large tract of land about 900 acres in the east part of town called the
Cambridge School Farm, a little west of the Shawshin River and north of the
present Boston Road. He was a soldier in the company of Capt. Samuel Gallup
in the land expedition to Canada by way of Albany in 1690, which utterly
failed. He was deputy from Billerica to the General Court of Massachusetts in
1703 and 1704. Deeded land to son Andrew, Oct. 14, 1705.

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Billerica, Page 388

Note: Also have a death date of 24 June 1766

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Billerica Deaths, Page 387

Note: Thomas was a pioneer of Woburn, Mass.

Note: Probably this Joseph Eaton:


Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots

EATON, Joseph Capt Second West Parish Cem Haverhill MA 31 Abstract of Graves of Revolutionary Patriots, Vol.2, p. —Serial: 9504; Volume: 6

Occupation: Place: 30th President Of The Uni

Note: Partipated in the Boston Tea Party.

Note: Military Service: American Rev. Private in Capt. John Minot's regiment. Col.
Dike's Regiment.
Lived at Davis Corner where property is still held by his descendants. His
inn accommodated travelers passing through Salem.
Moderator town meeting, 1785, 1788
Selectman, 1785-1788

MOSES DAVIS OF CHELMSFORD, MASSACHUSETTS

The administration of the estate of Moses Davis of Chelmsford, Mass., is on file at the Middlesex county Registry of Probate, Cambridge, mass.

A large number of papers is to be seen there and is of interest to the reader but have not been copied here because of their length. Excerpts are here given which will be of general interest. There was no will.

Moses Davis was called a ôyeomanö although he had been an innkeeper for many years. In 1774, a deed says that the house where he and his family ônow dwellsö was in the northern part of Chelmsford near Pawtucket Falls on the Merrimac river. He own
a house, bard, horseshed, and a shop. He also had a half interest in a sawmill with a mill dam and a half interest in using the stream and all rights and privileges therein except reserving a County way and a town way.

At the time of his death he owned three pieces of property. There is an interesting description of the
division of the land but is too long to copy here. The widow is apportioned her dower rights and several receipts are there showing parts which were conveyed to different heirs. Lydia, wife of Jesse Webster, Jr., was awarded the Swamplot so-called o
acres in 1807. Lydia died before the estate was finally settled and although we do not know the date of her death, it must have been between 1814 and 1816, when Jesse married again, a widow, by the name of Lucy Foster, who was the widow of Joseph
Foster of Billerica, Mass.

In 1810 a list of heirs is given and includes:

Lydia Davis, his widow
Johnson Davis, the eldest son
Rebecca Taylor, a daughter
Susanna Hale, a daughter
Lydia Webster, a daughter
Sally Stevens, a daughter
Polly Richardson, a daughter

Another son, Elisha Davis, died Sept. 18, 1775 at Chelmsford, aged 1 year.

The estate was not settled immediately, evidently because another list of children and heirs is also there. In this list is found a more complete list of children of Lydia and Jesse Webster, Jr., than has been found anywhere else. The paper is date
Lowell, May 12, 1830 and the complete list of children and heirs is given below. By that time at least two of the children had died. The eldest son, Johnson Davis died Oct. 7, 1826 at the age of 56 years and Lydia Webster died sometime between 1814
1816. Their children were all listed as heirs.

Children and heirs of Moses Davis:
Children and heirs of Johnson Davis, one of the children and heirs of Moses Davis; Elisha Davis,
Nancy Sawyer wife of Alfred I. Sawyer, Betsy Blood, wife of Abel Blood, Fanny Abbott, wife of
Joshua Abbott, and Sidney Davis.

Rebecca Taylor, wife of Robert Taylor, a daughter

Susanna Hale, widow of Moses Hale, a daughter

Children of Lydia Webster (wife of Jesse Webster) viz.; Samuel Webster, Phineas Webster, Albert
Webster, Virginia S. Webster, Charles Webster, Wealthy Webster, Almira (or Almina) Webster and
Moses Webster.

Sally Stevens, a daughter

Polly Richardson, a daughter.

The said Johnson Davis, Rebecca Taylor, Susanna Hale, Lydia Webster, Sally Stevens, and Polly
Richardson being children and heirs of Moses Davis.

A large inventory is also appended to the other papers and includes 17 kitchen chairs, 2 large yellow
Windsor chairs, 2 Roundabout chairs, 9 silver teaspoons, a large silver tablespoon and a great variety of other household articles.

The heirs of each deceased children received one share of the estate and each child also received a share. Receipts were given for these shares and one was signed by Jesse Webster, then of Waltham, dated Sept. 30, 1830. The estate was said to be
agreeably settled by that time. A complete set of papers is to be found on the settlement of the estate.

--written by Vivian S. Lord--

Occupation: Place: Innkeeper

Note: 'MEMENTO MORI' 'FUGIT HORA'
'Here lyes ye body of Francis Wyman aged about 82 years, died
November 28th, 1699 [an error of 1 or 2 years]
'The memory of ye just is blessed'
One of the 32 inhabitants of Charlestown who on Dec 30 1644
established the town of Woburn.

Occupation: Place: Tanner