There is in existence a document manumitting his slave, which, I am happy to say, is the only existing evidence that any ancestor of mine ever owned one.
My father's grandfather, on the mother's side, was Colonel Abijah Peirce, of Lincoln.

He was prominent in Middlesex County from a time preceding the Revolutionary War down to his death.

He was one of the Committee of the Town who had charge of corresponding with other towns and with the Committee of Safety in Boston.

The day before the battle at Concord Bridge, he had been chosen Colonel of a regiment of Minute Men.

But he had not got his commission, taken the oath, or got his equipments.