Tombstone Tuesday ~ Elizabeth Langdon Peirce, died 1732 Portsmouth, New Hampshire

This tombstone was photographed at the Point of Graves, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

HERE LYES ye BODY OF

Mrs. ELIZABETH PEIRCE

WIFE TO Mr. GEORGE

PEIRCE DEDd MAY

ye 4th  1732 IN ye

45th YEAR OF HER AGE.

Elizabeth Langdon, daughter of Tobias Langdon and Mary Hubbard, was born 16 September 1688 in Salisbury, Massachusetts, and died 4 May 1732 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.  She married George Peirce, son of Daniel Peirce and Elizabeth Milward,  and they had seven children:  Mehitable, Tobias, Sarah, George, Dorothy, Mary and Martha.

 For more on the Peirce family see:

The Peirce Family Papers, held at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Findingaids/peirce_family.pdf   

The Pierce Genealogy, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, 1880 is available online at archive.org and also completely scanned digitally at Google Books. See page 235 for George Peirce and his wives.

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Elizabeth Langdon Peirce, died 1732 Portsmouth, New Hampshire", Nutfield Genealogy, posted July 24, 2018, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2018/07/tombstone-tuesday-elizabeth-langdon.html: accessed [access date]).