University of Groningen
American History: Biographies: William Leigh Pierce 1740 1789
Very little is known about William Pierce's early life. He was probably born in Georgia in 1740, but he grew up in Virginia. During the Revolutionary War Pierce acted as an aide-de-camp to Gen. Nathanael Greene and eventually attained...
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William Leigh Pierce an Account of the Earthquakes (1812)
William Leigh Pierce's written description of an earthquake that struck the area of the Mississippi near Missouri in 1812. Pierce is better known as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention from Georgia.
US National Archives
Nara: Founding Fathers: Georgia
Gives biographical details on the four delegates from Georgia to the Constitutional Convention: Abraham Baldwin, William Few, William Houston, and William Leigh Pierce.