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British clergyman and agent for the Countess of Huntingdon in Georgia and South Carolina, who sent him to America in 1773 to be the president and manager of the Bethesda Orphan House and College in Georgia. In 1776, Rev. Piercy married Catherine Elliott, daughter of Barnard Elliott (d. 1758), in Charleston, S.C.

George Whitefield established an orphan house in Georgia which was bequeathed to the Countess of Huntingdon with the intent that she would continue the work of the orphanage and complete the building and establishment of a college. The Bethesda College was never actually in operation and was destroyed by a fire in 1773. After the death of Lady Huntingdon, the state of Georgia seized the property, which from 1808 onward stood abandoned until the Bethesda Home for Boys was constructed there by the Union Society in 1870.

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