Hello, List! I wanted to give something back for help one of our Listers gave me, so here is a transcript from Rambler, 3/22/1925 which was sent to me by a librarian in the Virginia Room of the Fairfax City Regional Library in Fairfax, VA. It is part of an article which apparently was one of a series. My ancestor is Abner PIERCE, born 1792 in Massachusetts and died probably in 1862 in northern Virginia, but I had requested the article in case it referred to the one I was seeking. Perhaps my disappointment will be someone else's "happy dance." "In writing of Joshua Peirce's Linnean Hill nursery, the Rambler forgot to mention that for many years he was owner of the squares bounded by Thirteenth and Sixteenth, R and S streets, and had a tree plantation there. Joshua Peirce was the eighth child of Isaac Peirce and Betsy Cloud Peirce, daughter of Abner Cloud, who ran the mill whose ruins are on the flats about a mile this side of Chain Bridge. Isaac Peirce was born in Chester County, Pa., April 9, 1756, came to the District about the time of the Revolution, and married Betsy Cloud in 1779. Isaac bought a mill-seat on Rock Creek and built Peirce's Mill about 1800. You have seen cut in stone in the spring house west of the mill, this 'B. I. P. 1801.' You might infer the meaning as 'Built by Isaac Peirce,' but the late Abner Peirce Shoemaker interpreted it as 'Betsy and Isaac Peirce, 1801.' The children of Isaac and Betsy Peirce were Amy, born 1780; Job, born 1781, married Sarah Harvey; Anne, born 1783, married Samuel Simonton; Abner Cloud Peirce, born 1785, died 1851, and inherited the mill property; Hannah, born 1789, married Hayes Speakman, died 1875; Mary, born 1791; Betsy, 1793; Joshua, born 1795; married Susan Coats, daughter of Jacob Coats of Philadelphia. Joshua died in 1869, and in the National Intelligencer, April 12, that year, was this: 'Mr. Joshua Peirce, one of the oldest citizens of Washington died yesterday afternoon at his residence, Linnean Hill, near the city, in the 75th year of his age. Mr. Peirce was well known to our citizens generally, for many years being engaged in the propagation of rare trees and plants, and was the owner of a square of ground near the State Department, which he used as a branch of his nursery at Linnean Hill.' The Linnean Hill property was left by Mr. Peirce to Peirce Klingle, a nephew of Mrs. Peirce, and it was in possession of the Klingle family at the time of its inclusion in Rock Creek Park in 1890." Bev ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.