John Pierpont, of Roxbury

1. John Pierpont was born ABT 1618 in London, England, and died 7 DEC 1682 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He was the son of 2. James Pierpont and 3. Margaret.

family

He married Thankful Stow ABT 1648 in of Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, daughter of John Stow and Elizabeth Biggs. She was christened 29 MAR 1629 in Biddenden, Kent, England, died AFT 21 DEC 1682 in of Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

Children

1. Thankful Pierpont b: 26 NOV 1649 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 2 DEC 1649 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
2. John Pierpont b: 22 JUL 1651 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
3. John Pierpont b: 28 OCT 1652 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 31 OCT 1652 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
4. Experience Pierpont b: 4 FEB 1654 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 18 MAR 1654/1655 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
5. Pierpont b: 4 AUG 1657 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
6. James Pierpont b: 4 JAN 1659/1660 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 8 FEB 1659/1660 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
7. Ebenezer Pierpont b: 21 DEC 1661 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 22 DEC 1661 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
8. Thankful Pierpont b: 18 NOV 1663 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 27 DEC 1663 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
9. Joseph Pierpont b: 8 AUG 1666 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 12 AUG 1666 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
10. Benjamin Pierpont b: 26 JUL 1668 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 2 AUG 1668 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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named as "my kind brother" in the 1663 will of Robert Hawes, of Salem, Wenham & Roxbury

biography

From "The History Of The Descendants Of John Dwight, Of Dedham, Mass". 2017. Google Books. Accessed April 29 2017. page 1050

The Descendants Of Rev. James Pierpont Of New Haven, For Several Generations.

John and Robert Pierpont, brothers, sons of James Pierpont of England, came to Roxbury, Mass., to live, between 1640 and 1645. The name was originally Pierrepont (the French equivalent for stone-bridge), and is often written wrongly as Pierpoint. In a work entitled " An Architectural Tour in Normandy, by H. G. Knight, Esq., London, 1830," occurs the following passage: "At two leagues distant from St. Sauvenr is the hamlet of Pierrepont (Pierrepont derives its name from a stone bridge, with which Charlemagne supplied the place of a ferry, and which in his days was considered a great achievement), the cradle of another ennobled English family. Remembrances of the kind abound in Normandy." Robert De Pierrepont came to England from Normandy with William the Conqueror in 1066. The family is of Norman origin.

James Pierpont, father of John and Robert, who settled in Roxbury, had three daughters, Mary, Anne and Martha, one of whom (it is not certain which) m. Rev. William Eaton of Bridport, Dorsetshire, Eng., one of the ejected ministers in 1662.

The motto of the Pierpont Family, "Pie repone te," is an evident imitation of the name in a Latin form.

Margaret, wife of James Pierpont, d. in London in Jan. 1664. He came to this country on a visit to his two sons, while she was yet living, and died here before she did in England, at Ipswich, Mass.; but in what year the writer has not ascertained.

John Pierpont, eldest son of James and Margaret Pierpont, b. in London, Eng., in 1019, m. about 1651 Thankful Stow, dau. of John Stow of Roxbury, and had 10 children, six of them sons:

Robert Pierpont, his brother, b. in London about 1622, m. in Roxbury, Mass., Feb. 13, 1656-7, Sarah Lyndes of Charlestown, Mass., dau. of Dea. Thomas Lyndes. They had 13 children, eight of them sons, and several of their children d. young. She d. May 16, 1704.

notes

"John Peirpoint" in Anderson's "The Great Migration Begins," William Peacock article:

"Pierrepont Genealogies From Norman Times To 1913". 2017. Google Books. Accessed April 30 2017. page 130 "The Lost Dukedom, or the story of the Pierrepont Claim." By James Kingsley Blake, LL.B. [No. 224 in the Record of Descent contained in Chapter 111.] (Read March 26, 1906, before the New Haven Colony Historical Society and printed in Vol. VII of its Transactions at page 258. Reprinted here by permission of Henry T. Blake, Esq., of New Haven.)

"I shall not attempt in this paper to scramble up the lofty tree from Sir Robert, past all the Pierreponts, good, bad and indifferent, to the last Duke of Kingston; for Lodge's Peerage will give you all their names, titles and achievements at full length; but shall (much to your relief, I have no doubt) only speak of those whose history is involved in my story of the Pierrepont Claim.
Sir George Pierrepont, who received a title from Edward VI for assisting at his coronation in 1547, had five children, three sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Sir Henry, was the ancestor of the English line, from which the later Dukes of Kingston sprang. The second son, Gervais, died without issue; and the third son, William, is the claimed ancestor of the American branch. Of the daughters suffice it to say that they both married and that one of them was the mother of Francis Beaumont, the famous dramatist of the golden age of good Queen Bess.
As I have already said, the estate of Holme Pierrepont lies in the beautiful County of Nottingham, about three miles from Nottingham town, and not far away from the village of Scrooby, so closely linked with Massachusetts through Elder Brewster, William Bradford and the Pilgrims. The East Anglian counties were the center of the Puritan movement, and it was probably the rock of Puritanism and Independency that divided the Pierrepont stream into two separate courses, one of which flowed peacefully on in the old country, while the other painfully made its way amid the forests of the new.
Sir Robert, the eldest brother, as became the holder of the title, joined the Stuart and became a Lieutenant-General of his forces. He was successively created Baron Pierrepont, Viscount Newark and Earl of Kingston, and fell at last, fighting for the king, at Gainsborough, July 3, 1643.
Which side his younger brother William espoused, there is no record; but we know that he died in England in 1648, leaving among other children, mentioned in his will, a son James, who was undoubtedly a Puritan. This James Pierrepont lived in Derbyshire, according to a family tradition, and as one of the letters written in 1774 says, carried on trade between England and Ireland; but in the "troubulous times," meaning the time of the Parliamentary uprising, "he became bankrupt," and afterwards emigrated with his son Robert to America, to live with his eldest son, John, who had already settled there.

John Pierpont, to whose home his broken father came for refuge, was the first one of the family to cross the seas. He settled at Roxbury in 1640 and purchased a large tract of land, calling a part of it Dorchester in honor of his second cousin, Henry Pierrepont, in England, who had succeeded his father. Robert, as second Earl of Kingston, and who had received from Charles I the further title of Marquis of Dorchester.

I have said that the break in the Pierrepont family probably came on the question of non-conformity, and it is to this difference that we may attribute the fact that all communication ceased between the descendants of Robert, the Cavalier, and the Roundhead descendants of his brother William. Whether this brother William, the father of bankrupt James, was of the latter party, we do not know; but the fact that all of his grandchildren were Puritans, and that his own son afterwards came to New England to live and die among dissenters, makes us safe, I think, in assuming that the original William, too, had no love for Charles Stuart and the Bishops, as his titled brother Robert had, but favored rather Cromwell and the Independents.
I have also said that we find no record of any correspondence between the two branches of the family which held opposite political and religious views; but there are letters showing that John of Roxbury and Dorchester still kept in touch with his Puritan relatives in old England, after he had crossed the Atlantic and settled in the new world, for among our collection we find a letter from one Thomas Hill of London, dated April 5, 1664, addressed to "Mr. John Pierpointe dwelling at Roxbury in New England" telling him the sad news of the death of his mother, Margaret, in London. Among other things he says:

"She did die free from any debt and had some small matter of money to spare, rather than to want, she formerly did intend to have all that was worth sending, sent to you and some Tokens for the rest with you, but she hearing you had no need and being she could not hear from you, thought you to be dead. And another thing happening did cause her to alter her will and mind which was this, your sister Eaton did come to London living six or seven score miles off and by reason her Husband cannot conform to the Bishops is put out of his living, and having many children and littles helpes to maintain them, that is but low with them and she is a very honest godly woman and coming so far to see your mother, caused your mother to give her most of what she had a_nd something she gave to one of your sister Eaton's Daughters that liveth in London."

The "sister Eaton" mentioned in this letter was the wife of William Eaton of Bridport, Dorset County, a dissenter, as Thomas Hill says; and we later find in our collection another letter from their son, John Eaton, written from Bridport, October 16th, 1666, and sealed with the Pierrepont arms. It is addressed to "My loving Uncle, Mr. John Pier-point at Rockbury in New England" and tells how "having been lately at the Universitie at Oxford I am from thence not long since returned to take a view of my friends." and how the writer thought he would pen a few lines to say how "glad should wee all be, if at any time such a good action should be performed by you (his

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 29 2017, 9:38:44 UTC
  • Immigrant London to Boston abt 1640, descended from French Pierreponts who crossed English channel during Norman conquest; see p. 17, Strouse, Morgan, american financier, 1998
• Reference: RootsWeb's WorldConnect - SmartCopy: Apr 29 2017, 22:36:44 UTC http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:John_Pierpont_%281%29
  • 3:432, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862).
  • Ullmann, Helen Schatvet. The Pierponts of Roxbury, Massachusetts., pp. 6, 9-15.

Roxbury deaths: PEIRPONT, John [Peirpoynt, sr. C. R. 1.], Dec. 7, 1682, a. 64 y. [a. 65 y. G. R. 1.]

From contributor Rebecca Dodds: Pierrepont Genealogies, by R. Burnham Moffat, 1913

PIERPOINT, John, Malster(Brewer) 1648 had deed of land in Roxbury from his father-in-law John Stow. He bought land in Ipswich, MA 15 Nov. 1649. Member of the church of Roxbury, MA as of Nov. 17, 1650. May 26, 1652 he was Roxbury Town Officer. He deposed in Essex County Court in 1670, age 51 years. He died at Roxbury Dec 7, 1682, age 64 years. John's will, written by himself on 12 Oct 1681, probated 21 Dec. 1682, attested by his brother Robert P. His widow Thankful, his ch. John, James and Ebenezer, the guardians of his sons Joseph and Benjamin, John Hayward-husband of his dau. Experience, and Dea. Wm. Parke bequeathed lands, mills, malt-house, etc. Inscription: Here Lyeth Intombed the Body of John Pierpont who Expired ye 7th of December Anno Dom 1682 Ætatis Suæ 65.

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 30 2017, 1:42:55 UTC
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  • The Pierponts of Roxbury, Massachusetts Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, FASG Page: 6, 9-15