Nancy: You asked for my line of descent. My line of ascent is as follows: John Pearce (the mason) and Mary (?) of Newport County, Rhode Island, had three children: John Pearce who married Martha Brayton; Daniel Pearce who married Elizabeth Tucker as his second wife; and Mary Pearce who married Robert Hill; James Sweet; and Edward Green Daniel Pearce and Elizabeth Tucker of Washington County, Rhode Island, had three children: Benoni Pearce who married Sarah Rhodes; Nathan Pearce (Sr) who married Abigail Spink; and William Pearce who married Elizabeth Tillinghast. Nathan Pearce (Sr) and Abigail Spink of Washington County, Rhode Island and Dutchess County, New York, had nine children: Sarah Pearce who married Richard Stafford; Abigail Pearce who married Jonathan Truman; Benoni Pearce who married Mehitable Walker; Ephraim Pearce who married Phebe Manton; Susanna Pearce who married Daniel Thornton; Margaret Pearce who married William Potter; Nathan Pearce (Jr) who married Elizabeth Culver (?); Phebe Pearce who married Charles Dyer III; and William Pearce who married Chloe Cary Nathan Pearce (Jr) and Elizabeth Culver of Dutchess County, New York had 5 children: Elizabeth (Culver) Pearce married William Connor, after Nathan Pearce (Jr) was murdered. Daniel Pearce who married his first cousin, Anstis Pearce; Robert Gilbert Livingston Pearce who married Eunice Warden; Charles Pearce who married Mary (?); Susanna Pearce who married Daniel Crandall; and Hannah Pearce who married Stephen Raymond; Possibly two more children: Betsy Pearce who married Clark Beach; and Nathan Pearce who married Lydia Holley Daniel Pearce and Anstis Pearce of Dutchess County, Chatham County, North Carolina, and Randolph County, North Carolina, had eight children: Ira Pearce who died at birth; Mehitable Walker Pearce who married William Degge Wren; Benoni Pearce who married Abigail Gregory; Paris Pearce who married Rachel Kivett; Ruth Tweedy Pearce who married William Lynch; Anstis Pearce who married William Carver Abigail Dyer Pearce who married Abraham Owen; and Cornelia Frances Pearce who married Nicholas Dafford. Paris Pearce and Rachel Kivett of Chatham County, North Carolina, had two children: Benjamin Franklin Pearce who married Mariah Atkins; and Alfred Pearce who married Sarah Adeline Fox Alfred Pearce and Sarah Adeline Fox of Chatham County, North Carolina, had three children: E.A.M. Pearce who died young; James Wesley Pearce who married Emily Caroline Hinshaw; and Mary Elizabeth Pearce who never married. James Wesley Pearce and Emily Caroline Hinshaw of Chatham County, North Carolina, had eight children: Mary Margaret Pearce who married Hubert Linvell Blair; Anna Pearce who married Frederick Roland Thompson; Junius Pearce, who died as an infant; William Wade Pearce who married Anna Belle Diamond George Ross Pearce who married lst May Maude Woody, and 2nd Sophronie Brower; Alfred Otis Pearce who married Blanche Mae Palm; Infant Pearce, who died young; and Oscar Zimri Pearce who married Ida Hutchings. William Wade Peace of Chatham County, North Caroline and Anna Bell Diamond of Kingston, Ulster County, New York, are my parents. Is there a connection somewhere? What is your line of descent or ascent? Best Regards, Jim Pearce Nuevo, Calif.