John Pierce Jr.

John Pierce Jr. (3 December 1752 – 1 August 1788) was an officer in the Continental Army and United States Army. A veteran of the American Revolutionary War, he attained the rank of colonel in the pay department. Pierce served in paymaster assignments throughout his career, including Paymaster-General of the Continental Army from 1781 to 1783 and Paymaster-General of the United States Army from 1783 until his death. Pierce is also regarded as one of the founders of the Litchfield Female Academy.

Biography John Pierce Jr. was born in Farmington, Connecticut on 3 December 1752, the son of John Pierce and Mary (Paterson) Pierce. His parents moved to Litchfield soon after his birth.

As paymaster-general in the years following the Revolution, Pierce supervised payment of more than 93,000 certificates for deferred soldier pay, which totaled more than 10 million dollars. As the Continental Army's Commissioner of Accounts from 1781 to 1783, it also fell to Pierce to settle the organization's accounts prior to its disbanding. They had no children.