Person:Marshall Pierce (1)

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Marshall Pierce
b.1 Mar 1807 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
d.27 May 1886 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
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m. Aft 30 May 1796
  1. John Peirce1797 -
  2. Sarah Peirce1799 -
  3. Marshall Pierce1807 - 1886
Spouse and Children
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m. 2 Nov 1832
  1. Adeline Mary Pierce1833 - 1909
  2. Clarissa Baldwin Pierce1836 - 1907
  3. Harlan Ashley Pierce1840 - 1915
  4. Lorenza Abigail (Laura) Pierce1842 - 1905
  5. Francis Marshall Pierce1847 - Aft 1922
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Facts and Events
Name Marshall Pierce
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1 Mar 1807 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Religion[6] 1827 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Stateswas member 221 of the Congregational Church
Marriage 2 Nov 1832 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Parks Francis
Religion[7] Dec 1833 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Stateswas dismissed from the church
Other? Jan 1834 and his wife presumably moved from Hinsdale, returning three years later
Religion[8] 13 Jan 1834 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Stateswas the only one of the brothers not on the list of original members of the Congregational Society
Religion[9] 1837 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Stateswas admitted to the Congregational Church by letter from another church
Census[10] 1840 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Census? 1850 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation[11] 1850 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Statesfarmer, though the census had no property value for him
Occupation[12] 1852 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Stateslime burner (listed under Lime Burning in the Massachusetts Register)
Other[14] 1853 seems to have sent all of his children to "the Academy" judging from a letter about it
Other[15] 1853 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Stateswas selectman and overseer of the poor
Other[16] 14 Apr 1853 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United StatesThe Pittsfield Sun reported that Marshal Pierce was a selectman
Religion[13] 1853 on a committee that donated money to the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society
Other[17] 5 Jun 1860 He placed an ad asking to be made administrator of the estate of Abigail Morey
Property[18] 11 Jun 1860 He had 190 acres, of which 30 were unimproved
Other[19] 11 Jun 1860 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United StatesA census was take on his farm production
Census[20] 24 Jul 1860 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation? 1870 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United Statesfarmer
Census[21] 16 Jun 1870 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Census? 21 Jun 1880 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2] 27 May 1886 Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Burial[3] Hinsdale Cemetery, Hinsdale, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
Other? Marshall Peirce born Sept 26 1808 died May 27 1886 (Gravestone)
Other[4] was referred to with fondness by a man who taught in the "North woods" school
Other[5] There is no record of any probate

"In the town of Hinsdale, Massachusetts which contains only 822 inhabitants, there are owned 42,000 sheep." - Western Intelligencer, Religious, Literary and Political, (Hudson, OH) Friday, August 24, 1827; Issue 6; col D

References
  1. ↑ Pierce genealogy : being the record of the posterity of Thomas Pierce, an early inhabitant of Charlestown, and afterwards Charlestown village (Woburn), in New England, with wills, inventories, biographical sketches, etc. (Archive.org), Frederic Beech Pierce, Press of C. Hamilton, Worcester, MA, 1882, p 35
    NOTE: unsourced site had 20 Sep 1808 -- not in Peru VR and there are few Hinsdale records this early
  2. ↑ Pierce, Marshall Age 77-8-26 Date May 27, 1886 - HINSDALE DEATHS. TO THE YEAR 1883 TO 1903. from Town Clerk's report in the town's annual reports
  3. ↑ section 6
  4. ↑ "Two winters I taught school in Hinsdale, one in the "North woods," and how I did enjoy my acquaintances there--Mr. Lysander Francis and his good father and mother, Deacon Clark and his two sons and families, Marshall and Erastus Peirce and their families, Elijah Wentworth and family, where it was a delight to board, or even spend a night on returning from singing school."
    Commemoration of the centennial of the Congregational Church, Hinsdale, Mass ... By Congregational Church (Hinsdale, Mass.) Letter from Rev. H.C. Haskell, Missionary at Samokov, Bulgaria
  5. ↑ under Pierce or Peirce
    http://www.massmayflower.org/research/guides/ma/county/berkshire/probate-pages/guides-ma-berkshire-pr-index-p227.htm
  6. ↑ Commemoration of the centennial of the Congregational Church, Hinsdale, Mass By Congregational Church (Hinsdale, Mass.) - 114. Peirce, William 374. 151. Peirce, Sally 851. 187. Peirce, Mrs. Rebecca E. 946. 835. Peirce, Mrs. C. A. 266. 103. Pierce, Asa 245. 92. Pierce, Mrs. Asa 439. 221. Pierce, Marshall 550. 340. Pierce, Marshall 697. 341. Pierce, Mrs. Marshall 836. 297. Pierce, Lydia 617. 323. Pierce, Elbridge G. 112. 324. Pierce, Francis 113. 325. Pierce, Lewis 167. 326. Pierce, Judith M. 168. 327. Pierce, Harriet 169. 356. Pierce, Warren W. 605. 397. Pierce, Christopher C. 53. 517. Pierce, Mrs. C. C. 277 428. Pierce, Erastus 132. 429. Pierce, Mrs. Erastus 278. 531. Pierce, Charles M. 556. 438. Pierce, Orlen N. B. 567. 441. Pierce, Sarah 568. 463. Pierce, Eunice 569. 484. Pierce, Floury A. 570. 623. Pierce, Henry A. 640. 624. Pierce, Mrs. H. A. 70. 537. Pierce, Mrs. Sarah 156 536. Pierce, Harlan A. 435. 551. Pierce, Clarissa B. 219. 552. Pierce, Adeline M. 489. 632. Pierce, Elizabeth A. 542. 716. Pierce, Alden H. 543. 770. Pierce, Mary E. 544. 794. Pierce. Sarah A. 351.
  7. ↑ Commemoration of the Centennial of the Congregational Church, Hinsdale, Mass: Organized December 17th, 1795. August 28th, 1895 (Google eBook) Congregational Church (Hinsdale, Mass.) Press of the Sun printing Company, 1896
  8. ↑ Original Members Of The Present Parish. January 13, 1834. Voted-That said Society do now hereby organize themselves into a Parish, to be known as and called in all times to come, The First Congregational Society in Hinsdale. Allen, Thomas Adams, John / Allen, James / Allen, Charles / Bixbee, Solomon / Barker, Thomas / Brown, Obadiah Barrett, Archie Barrett, Amos Bestow, Frederick Bullard, Lemuel Barrows, Theodore Barker, Asahe Barrett, Haskell Baker, James H. Bodurthy, Harvey L. Cady, Abial Colt, Oliver P. Crossett, Chester Curtiss, Anson Clark, William Clark, Watson Curtiss, Epaphras Curtiss, Frederick Chapin, Festus Dole, Benjamin Deming, Cephas Eames, Daniel Emmons, Monroe Emmons, Noadiah Francis, Festus Francis, John Goodrich, Elijah H. Holland William Huntington, Simon Hinsdale, William Hawley, William A. Holland, Stephen Hinsdale, David M. Hinsdale, Henry Haskins, James Kittredge, Abel Kittredge, Benjamin F. Knight, Asher Loomis, Salmon Lemley, Solomon Ladd, Lathrop Lyman, Isaac Lewis, Albert Leland, Moses Merriman, Daniel Morgan, Julius Milliken, Robert Merrill, John Moody, Cotton Merriman, Addison Merriman, Hiram Merriman, Henry Morgan, Adams Morgan, Edwin Morgan, Sylvester Mack, William Nicholson, Ambrose Payne, Ebenezer L. Post, Ichabod Parsons, Lemuel Pierce, John Putnam, Henry Plunkett, Charles H. Pierce, Erastus Pierce, Ashley Pierce, Warren Payne, Lyman Post, Jeremiah H. Richards, Hiram Reynolds, Hezekiah L. Robinson, Alva Street, Caleb M. Street, Horace Snow, Charles Spencer, Seldon Tyler, Amos Tinker, Russell Tracy, Walter Tracy, Charles K. Wing, Elisha Wing, James Wentworth, Daniel Wright, Samuel Watkins, Luther Washburn, Abraham White, Joseph Watkins, Francis Warner, Daniel N. Wentworth, Elijah Wentworth, David Watkins, Riley Wright, Samuel S. Warner, Benjamin E. Watkins, Samuel
  9. ↑ Commemoration of the Centennial of the Congregational Church, Hinsdale, Mass: Organized December 17th, 1795. August 28th, 1895 (Google eBook) Congregational Church (Hinsdale, Mass.) Press of the Sun printing Company, 1896, p 147
  10. ↑ Marshall Reuss [Marshall Pierce] Township: Hinsdale County: Berkshire State: Massachusetts Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1 Free White Persons - Males - 40 thru 49: 1 Free White Persons - Females - Under 5: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 5 thru 9: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1 Free White Persons - Females - 40 thru 49: 1 Total - All Persons (Free White, Free Colored, Slaves): 7 Persons Employed in Agriculture: 2 Free White Persons - Under 20: 2 Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 5 Total Free White Persons: 7 Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: In his household were 3 males - one 20-29, one 30-39, one 40-49 -- four females - one under 5 one 5-9, one 20-29 one 40-49. NOTE: Harlan was apparently not born yet, the two young girls are Adeline and Clarissa.
  11. ↑ NOTE: It seems more than likely that he helped work his parent's land.
  12. ↑ The Massachusetts register and United States calendar for the year of our ...1852 (Google eBooks)
  13. ↑ The Massachusetts Home Missionary Society acknowledges the receipts of the following sums in the month of January, 1853...Berkshire and Columbia H.M.S.L. Church, Treas., of which $365, from the Cong. Ch. and Soc. of Pittsfield, to const. Washington M. Root and Joel S. Bliss, L. Ms, and Rev. Samuel Harrison L.D. and bal to cons. Joseph White, Abiel Cady, Dea. George McElvain, Marshall Pierce, and Silas Bingham, of Hinsdale, L. Ms. - The Home missionary, Volumes 24-25 (Google eBook), American Home Missionary Society, Congregational Home Missionary Society,
    Executive Committee of the American Home Missionary Society, 1852
    No. 3 of each volume contains the annual report and minutes of the annual meeting, p 288.
  14. ↑ "I went to Hinsdale a boy of seventeen, in April, 1853 to "fit for college" at the Academy. [perhaps named Williams Academy] ....Some of the young ladies of the school, too, I remember with much interest, as those of Dr. Kittredge's family, of Marshall Peirce's and others."
    Commemoration of the centennial of the Congregational Church, Hinsdale, Mass ... By Congregational Church (Hinsdale, Mass.) Letter from Rev. H.C. Haskell, Missionary at Samokov, Bulgaria
  15. ↑ with William Hinsdale and W. Adams - The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for the Year of Our Lord ... (Google eBook) Richardson, Lord & Holbrook, and James Loring, 1853, p 5
  16. ↑ Headline: Town Officers; Article Type: News/Opinion Paper: Sun, published as The Pittsfield Sun.; Date: 04-14-1853; Volume: LIII; Issue: 2743; Page: 2; Location: Pittsfield, Massachusetts
    saved in genealogy/by Surname
  17. ↑ To the Honorable Judge of Probate and Insolvency for the County of Berkshire, The petition of Marshall Peirce of Hinsdale, respectfully represents that Abigail Morey of Hinsdale died on the fourteenth day of March 1860 that she was an inhabitant or resident of said county at the time of her death leaving estate to be administered within said county and that the following are the only heirs at law of said deceased known to your petitioner viz Thomas Morey, brother of said deceased. That your petitioner is requested to administer on the Estate of said deceased He therefore prays that he may be appointed Administrator of said estate. Dated this fifth day of June 1860 MARSHALL PIERCE, BERKSHIRE SS - Berkshire County Eagle
  18. ↑ Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880 Record for Marshal Pierce
  19. ↑ line 18 Marshal Pierce Acres of land - improved: 160 unimproved: 30; cash value of farm: 3800 value of farming implements and machinery: 120 Horses: 2 Asses and Mules: 0 Milch Cows: 6 Working Oxen: 0 Other Cattle: 12, Sheep: 40, Swine: 1 Value of Livestock: 650 Wheat, bushels of: 20 Rye: 0 Indian Corn: 0 Oats: 100 Rice: 0 Tobacco: 0 Ginned Cotton: 0 Wool, lbs of: 125 Peas and beans: 0 Irish Potatoes, bushels of: 130 Sweet Potatoes: 0 Barley, Bushels of: 12 Buckwheat, bushels of: 12 All Zeros for: Value of Orchard Produce in dollars, Wine, Value of Produce in Market Gardens, Butter, lbs. of: 600 Cheese, lbs of: 600 Hay, tons of: 50 All Zeros for: clover seed, grass seed, hops, hemp, flaxseed, silk cocoons, Maple sugar, cane sugar, molasses, Beeswax, honey and home make manufactures. value of animals slaughtered: 75 - Selected U.S. Federal Census Non-Population Schedules, 1850-1880 Record for Marshal Pierce
  20. ↑ as of the 1860 census, a 35 year old Erastus Pierce lived practically next door -- also a farmer with identical property value as Marshall Pierce. Wife Sophia, age 31, with a Charles Pierce a 23 year old theology student. (son? nephew? brother?)
  21. ↑ owned real estate worth $3,800 and personal property of $1,000 as of census.
    Mary's mother Abigail lived with them.
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