Harriet, was a daughter of Benona and Betsey (Davis) Pierce, of North Blenheim.

Her father was a descendant of Captain Michael Pierce, who came over from England about 1645, settled at Scituate, Mass., in 1647, and was killed in a fight with Indians in King Philip's War in March, 1676, while commanding his company.

This is the line of ancestry: Captain Michael (1), Ephraim (2), Ephraim (3), Mial (5), Job (5), Job (6), and Benona (7), father of Mrs. Hubbell. Benona Pierce was born in 1781, a son of Job Pierce, Jr., of Rehoboth, Mass., and died in 1855.

[This information is from pp. 40-44 of Biographical Review Volume XXXIII: Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Greene, Schoharie and Schenectady Counties, New York (Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1899). It is in the collection of the Grems-Doolittle Library of the Schenectady County Historical Society at 920 BIO.] - Schenectady Digital Archives (findagrave.com)