Last name | Peirce |
First name | John |
Display name | John Peirce |
Other names | John Pearce;John Pierce |
Birth date | 1755 |
Death date | 1833 |
Gender | m |
Affiliations | Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee, Chester Friends meeting, Concord Friends meeting, Darby Friends meeting |
Bio notes | John Peirce, Quaker of Delware County, Pennsylvania. Documented his 61-day journey through Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York in 1796 to visit Native American tribes. Indian Committee of PYM. Son of Caleb and Ann, married Jane Dicks at Chester in 1786. Died in 1833 at the age of 78. |
The United States to Joseph Johnston
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815
A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804
Halliday Jackson's Book [of Corrrespondence], Genesinguhta, 1798-1800
Halliday Jackson's Journal, 1806
Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country
Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.
John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796
Joshua Sharpless's Journal Into Indian Country, 1798
Jonathan Thomas His Book 1798
The Committee Appointed to Confer With the Friends who Attended the Indian Treaty
Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings
William Allinson Diary, Volume 1
Account of I. Coates, J. Sharpless, & J. Pierce, visits to Indian Reservation, NY
A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom
Joel Swayne Diary