Subject: Re: Peirces To: Maisie Dethier CC: cousins A bit of a delay in my response to Maisie... If anyone finds those charts, please FAX to me 978-443-2150 [jch 2011.11.27 charts found a long time ago http://www.hardenbergh.org/people/nichols/piercec2.jpg http://www.hardenbergh.org/people/nichols/nicholsB.jpg http://www.hardenbergh.org/people/nichols/nicholsA.jpg ] C.S.P. & HPN are second cousins twice over. > Read Witches Breed by Susan Nichols Pulsifer, copies in Concordia. I'm on my second copy, this one from Esty. The one I got as a kid in Salem at the reunion with Dad and Mary Lee is long gone. Here is an attempt to straighten out Charles Sanders Peirce, who was again quoted in my knowledge representation book. Let's say Gramps & Granny are generation 0, Maisie, you would then be generation 1, me 2. -- YON jch@jch.com http://www.jch.com/~jch/ work:jch@rtviz.com It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more that our abilities. -Dumbledore Ichabod Nichols + Lydia Ropes (Gen -4) => George, Lydia,??? Jerathmiel Peirce 1747-1827 + Sarah Ropes (Gen -4)=> (9 kids, 4 die young) Sarah, Benjamin, Betsy, Henry Sarah Pierce + George Nichols 1778 (son of Ichabod) (Gen -3) George Jr., Elizabeth P., Mary Jane, Charles Sanders Nichols (1816 Bejamin Pierce + Lydia Nichols (George's sister) (Gen -3) => Benjamin Jr.(1809-1880) Benjamin Pierce Jr. + Sarah Mills (Gen -2) James Mills Pierce, Helen, and Charles Sanders Pierce (1839-+73=1902?) Charles Sanders Nichols + Amelia Ann Ainsworth (Gen -2) => HPN, Charles Fessenden, Ellen & Catherine (p. 432) HPN + Alice M. Shepley (Gen -1) Some graphics: Ichabod + Lydia Jerathmiel + Sarah | | --------------------------\ | | /-----------+ | +-------\ George N + Sarah P. Lydia N. + Benjamin | | Chas. Sanders N. +AAA Ben Jr. + Sarah | | Harry Pierce Nichols Charles Sanders Pierce (1839-+73=1902?) + of logic fame. Mary Lee? | ------------------------- | Margaret Baxter Nichols + Clarence Morgan Hardenbergh 6-DEC-2K jch