The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

532 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
his high classical attainments. He married Eliza"
beth, daughter of Thomas Tileston, by whom he had
three children, who died young. He deceased February 28th, 1790. His widow for some years taught
a school for small children in the town. On the 6th
of May, 1802, she married his brother, Col. Moses
Coolidge, of Watertown. She was his fourth wife.
Moses was the father of Cornelius, a former wellknown citizen of Dorchester, now deceased.*
SAMUEL PIERCE, son of Samuel and Abigail (Moseley), grandson of John and Abigail (Thompson),
great-grandson of Thomas and Mary (Proctor), greatgreat-grandson of Robert and Ann (Greenway)
Pierce, was born in Dorchester, March 25th, 1739.
He married Elizabeth Howe, of Dorchester, October
24th, 1765. They had five children. He was a
colonel in the militia, and died June 4th, 1815,
aged 76. In his diary (see page 363 of this work),
he says that he began to keep school on the 1st of
February, 1773, at " ~3 5s. per week."
ONESIPHORUs TILESTON, born in Boston, April
28th, 1755; graduated at Harvard College in 1774;
taught the school about the year 1775; died October 6th, 1809.
EDWARD HUTCHINSON ROBBINS, son of Rev. Nathaniel Robbins, of Milton, was born February 19th,
1758. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of
* See Bond's History of Watertown.