Lydia Pierce^[1]

1756 - 1856  (100 years)

• Name	Lydia Pierce
  Birth	22 Aug 1756	Attleboro, Massachusetts   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	12 Sep 1856	Westmoreland, New Hampshire   [3]
  Burial	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
  Marriage	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].