| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fifth Generation676. Gideon Bearce Jr. was born on 9 February 1758 in Halifax, Massachusetts (Plymouth). He died on 18 June 1844 at the age of 86 in Hebron, Maine (Oxford). He served in the military in the Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). Gideon was a marine for the state of Massachsuetts. Gideon was 1/16 Wampanoag/Narragansett Indian from father. "...of Halifax, was at the siege of Boston and, for marine service in the Revolution, was granted a pension in 1833." "...was a tanner as well as farmer, and probably the first to make leather in the county. He was chosen to an office at the first town-meeting of Hebron, and during his life was prominent in local affairs." Gideon Bearce Jr. and Lucy Bucknam were married before 1790 in Hebron, Maine (Oxford). Lucy Bucknam, daughter of Daniel Bucknam and Rebecca Boyden, was born in 1777 in Hebron, Maine (Oxford). She lived in Hebron, Maine (Oxford) in August 1850. Living with her son J. Appleton Bearce. (Josiah) She died on 20 December 1851 at the age of 74 in Hebron, Maine (Oxford). Gideon Bearce Jr.-38763 and Lucy Bucknam-37054 had the following children:
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