The Pickering genealogy : being an account of the first three generations of the Pickering family of Salem, Mass., and of the descendants of John and Sarah (Burrill) Pickering, of the third generation . s of its heliotype of it is here given. Mr. Peirce gave up this house to liiscreditors and removed to a hoitse in Warren Street, which was thenoccupied by his son. Here he died within sixty days after leaving hisold home. Mr. Peirce was somewhat above the medium height, well proportioned,erect, of dignified and courteous manners, — a perfect gentleman of the oldschool. In tlie prime of li
The Pickering genealogy : being an account of the first three generations of the Pickering family of Salem, Mass., and of the descendants of John and Sarah (Burrill) Pickering, of the third generation . s of its heliotype of it is here given. Mr. Peirce gave up this house to liiscreditors and removed to a hoitse in Warren Street, which was thenoccupied by his son. Here he died within sixty days after leaving hisold home. Mr. Peirce was somewhat above the medium height, well proportioned,erect, of dignified and courteous manners, — a perfect gentleman of the oldschool. In tlie prime of life he was considered one of tlie wealthiest andmost successful of tlie merchant princes of Salem. His obituary notice, which appeared in the Salem Register of August23, 1827, gives him a high character and speaks of him as one of the mostenterprising and successful merchants of Salem. A very handsome whitemarble altar tomb, inscribed with his name and the date 1800, is in theBroad Street Burying Ground. A heliotype is here given of an embroideryof a Peirce coat of arms, which was worked by his daughter, Sarah (Peirce) THE HOUSE OF JERATHMELL PEIRCE Al SALEM, MASS., Run:r ix 17S2. [43. VI. 68.\. ^^mi: W^^ ?:,.- ?? ,.i;^ • i V^i^liT; -T -? K i -73 ^ i ? - >V—--_i> ii^j? 3 •^^f/ \ ?>SSM-1 .?y ??,-? ? 1 ^^\::)-^j *.-^ ! -- a - >!>?•• i? ..*^:..,uAi 1 ^ 5i rftalMl;-^^^- v !?? (? ,.; -:.. :l--=?-si-. r!; 4) a-???- j ?:^d -- SIXTH GEXERATIOX. Niclios, III 1796. It ii now in poisession of liLs granddiiuyhtLrs, the ^MissesXichols, of Salem.^ Jerathmeel Peirce was a son of Jerathmeel and Rebecca (Hurd) Peirce,of Cliailestown. His ancestry includes the following fanailies: Peirce,Knirrlit, Bowers, Worthlnyton, llurd, Wilson, Tufts, Peirce, Lynde. SeeANtEsTiiv Tables ^^. 44. VI. G9. Lydia Ropes [Ptuth 41-47. V. 16], probably born , baptized there Dec. 8, 1754, probably died in In personal appearance ]\[rs. Nichols was somewhat
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