Pierce family collection

The Pierce family was one of the early proprietors of Flintstown (Baldwin), Maine. Originally from Woburn, Mass., Josiah Pierce II was able to secure tracts of land and relocate the family. Some of his descendants went on to serve in the state legislature and United States Congress, as well as one branch moving further west to settle in Michigan. Many Pierce descendants also attended Bowdoin College, some later serving as trustees, as well as being active in many local societies. Papers in the collection include the papers of Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford, the half-brother to Josiah III through his mother's first marriage), Mary Bellows (the mother of Thomas Hill's first wife, Anne Foster), Thomas Hill (the father of Lewis Pierce's wife and president of Harvard University), Josiah Pierce II, Phebe Thompson Pierce, Phebe Elisabeth Sanborn, Daniel Pierce, Archelaus Lewis, Josiah Pierce VII, Josiah Pierce III (Sqr. Pierce to Loammi Baldwin at the archives of Harvard Business School; some correspondendence authored by Josiah III and his wife Phebe), Sarah Pierce Gooch, Josiah Pierce IV, Ruth Pierce Crocker, Nancy Pierce Freeman, Charles Freeman, Harriet Pierce, George Washington Pierce, Josiah Pierce V, Lewis Pierce, William John Curtis (father of Katherine R. Curtis Pierce, married to Henry Hill Pierce), Henry Hill Pierce, Katherine Robinson Curtis Pierce, William Curtis Pierce, and Elizabeth Neall Gay Pierce.

See also biographical notes within each series.