Colonel Samuel Pierce, 1739-1815
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Colonel Samuel Pierce, A Colonel of the revolution, who lived in the Pierce House on Oakton Avenue. Samuel was a builder by trade. He enlarged the Lemuel Clap House in 1765.
Colonel Samuel, as he was familiarly called, served in the army during the greater part of the War of the Revolution and was appointed lieutenant-colonel February 14, 1776. He was one of those who fortified Dorchester Heights; he was at Morristown in 1777; and n 1779, he was in Rhode Island in command of a regiment.
Samuel kept a diary from which excerpts were published in Good Old Dorchester by William Dana Orcut. (Cambridge, 1893). His papers are at Historic New England.