Lydia Pierce^[1]

1756 - 1856  (100 years)

• Name	Lydia Pierce
  Born	22 Aug 1756	Attleboro, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	12 Sep 1856	Westmoreland, New Hampshire   [3]
  Buried	Date Unknown	Westmoreland, New Hampshire   [3]
  		Lydia Pierce Carlisle, headstone. [PLy 01.]
  Person ID	I883	Lange Pierce
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2019

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Pierce,   b. 1713, Either Scituate or Attelboro, Massachusetts. ,   d. 23 Jul 1793, Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire.  (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Elizabeth Wilmarth Dryer,   b. 31 Dec 1717, Rehoboth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts ,   d. 18 Apr 1772, Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire  (Age 54 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Married	27 Dec 1743	Rehoboth, Massachusetts   [4]
  Notes	There is no source for a marriage date for this Benjamin Pierce and Elizabeth Darby (some researchers have claimed that Elizabeth Darby was the wife of this Benjamin Pierce), but there is, however,evidence of a marriage to Elizabeth Dryer. [DLL]
  Family ID	F324	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Daniel Carlisle, Captain
  Family ID	F381	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Lydia reached the great age of one hundred years, and the occasion was duly celebrated by her relatives and townspeople. [BPeb 02.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2825] H. C. Pierce, Seven Pierce Families, 153. [BPeb 01.] See F.C. Pierce, Pierce Genealogy No. 4, 51. [BPeb 02.] See also, History of Westmoreland (Great Meadow) New Hampshire, 518. [BPeb 03.]. [S2826] H. C. Pierce, Seven Pierce Families, 153. [BPeb 01.] See F.C. Pierce, Pierce Genealogy No. 4, 51. [BPeb 02.] See also, History of Westmoreland (Great Meadow) New Hampshire, 518. [BPeb 03.]. [S9526] Lydia Pierce Carlisle, death, p. 51 in Frederick Clifton Pierce, Pierce Genealogy, No. IV. Record of the Posterity of Capt. Michael, John and Capt. William Pierce, etc. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1889, 441 pp. [PLy 01.]. [S7392] There is no source for this date [originally stated in 2004 as before 1746] except that the first child, Eunice, was born in 1746. It is a logically arrived-at date. However, in 2005, see Elizabeth Dryer and Benjamin Pierce (1928). Vital Records of Taunton, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, Volume II, Marriages. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society; p. 160 [ElD 08] and p. 372 [BPeb 12].