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Pierce family

 Family

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence of George Washington Pierce and his brother Josiah Pierce

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 396
Scope and Content note

Correspondence of George Washington Pierce and his brother Josiah Pierce, both attorneys and Jacksonian politicians, including letters of John Anderson, Jonathan Cilley, Nathan Clifford, Robert P. Dunlap, John Fairfield, Simon Greenleaf, Hannibal Hamlin, John Ruggles, F.O.J. Smith, Seba Smith, Ezekial Whitman, Levi Woodbury, and others, concerned primarily with political affairs. All photocopies.

Dates: 1829 - 1836

Pierce family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 4210
Scope and Content note

Family documents and papers dating from early eighteenth century Colonial America to the twentieth century. The correspondence is predominantly between family members, although other significant national figures and personal friends are represented. Documents also include legal papers regarding wills and estates, property and the homestead in Baldwin, Me., personal journals and diaries, and other records of local and state history.

See also notes within each series.

Dates: 1705 - 2000

Pierce family collection

 Collection
Identifier: Coll. 2703
Scope and Content note

The collection includes original documents such as letters (including Civil War and WWII), diaries, photographs and negatives, newspaper clippings, certificates, a guest book, scrapbooks, account books, charts, court cases, as well as transcriptions of letters and diaries, and research materials. There are Houlton town records, as Leonard Pierce, Sr. was a Justice of the Peace, as well as being the postmaster. Some of the transcriptions are in electronic format.

Dates: 1741 - 2011

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Deeds 2
Diaries 2
Lawyers -- Maine -- Portland 2
Passports 2
Account books 1
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Accounts 1
Address books 1
Albums (Books) 1
Autographs 1
Baldwin (Me.) -- Biography 1
Baldwin (Me.) -- Genealogy 1
Baldwin (Me.) -- History 1
Birth announcements 1
Birth certificates 1
Businessmen -- Maine -- Houlton 1
Catholics -- Maine 1
Christmas -- Maine 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Condolence notes 1
Daguerrotype 1
Damariscotta (Me.) -- Biography 1
Death certificates 1
Diet -- Maine 1
Dogs -- Maine 1
Dressmaking -- Patterns 1
Family papers 1
Financial records 1
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Maine 1
Genealogists -- Maine -- Portland 1
Gorham (Me.) -- Politics and government 1
Hair 1
Home economics -- Accounting 1
Houlton (Me.) -- Biography 1
Houlton (Me.) -- Genealogy 1
Irish Americans -- Maine 1
Justices of the peace -- Maine -- Houlton 1
Lawyers -- Maine -- Gorham 1
Legal instruments 1
Maine -- Genealogy 1
Marriage certificates 1
New England -- Genealogy 1
Newcastle (Me.) -- Biography 1
Newspapers 1
Official documentation 1
Photograph albums 1
Photograph collections 1
Physicians -- Maine -- Houlton 1
Politicians -- Maine -- Gorham 1
Politicians -- Maine -- Portland 1
Portland (Me.) -- Biography 1
Portland (Me.) -- Politics and government 1
Postcards 1
Real property -- Maine -- Baldwin 1
Receipts (financial records) 1
Recipes 1
Sermons 1
Suffrage 1
Telegraph 1
Travelers' writings, European 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
Visiting cards 1
Wallets 1
Weddings 1
Wills 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Maine 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
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