James Pierrepont, of Derbyshire

James Pierpont

• Birth: ABT 1590 in of London, England
• Death: AFT 1639 in of Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
• Son of William Pierrepont and Elizabeth

family

Marriage

1. on 20 Jun 1610 in All hallows London Wall London, Middlesex, England to Margaret Nash. She died 1664 in London.

Children

1. John Pierpont b: ABT 1618 in London, England. Married Thankful Rowe.
2. Robert Pierpont b: 1621 in London, England. Married Sarah Lynde.
3. Mary Pierpont b: ABT 1623 in Ireland. Married Robert Hawes.
4. Anne Pierpont b: ABT 1625 in London, England
5. Martha Pierpont b: ABT 1630 in London, England. Married William Eaton.

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notes

From "Pierrepont Genealogies From Norman Times To 1913". 2017. Google Books. Accessed April 30 2017. page 135

The writer thinks it is now regarded as well established that the brothers John and Robert, who settled at Roxbury, were grandsons,—through their father James, of Derbyshire,—of William Pierrepont, a younger son of Sir George Pierrepont, Knt., of Holme Pierrepont. Their father James was first cousin of Robert Pierrepont who, in 1628, was created Earl of Kingston with succession to the heirs male of his body, and they themselves were second cousins to Henry Pierrepont the second Earl of Kingston, who in 1645 was further created Marquis of Dorchester, but with remainder to his uncle Gervase Pierrepont and the heirs male of his body.

biography

From "A Genealogical Abstract Of Descent Of The Family Of Pierrepont". 2017. Google Books. Accessed May 1 2017. page 18

James Pierrepont,1 from Holme Pierrepont, and second cousin to Robert Pierrepont, first Earl of Kingston. He was heir2 to a large estate in Derbyshire, and carried on a trade between England and Ireland.

A letter written by his great grandson, James Pierrepont, Jan. 20, 1774, to Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, President of Dartmouth College, contains the following postscript3: "I am sorry that in my narrative I did not mention that my grandfather, John Pierpont, who first came into New England, was ye son of James Pierrepont who fell into trade with a partner between London and Ireland, but in the troublous4 times they were bankrupt, which he hearing, sent for his brother Robert, and offered him part of his farm at Roxbury.5 Accordingly he came, and they lived as brothers. They had three sisters at least; one was married to Mr. Eaton, minister of Bridport, who was silenced for dissenting from ye church of England. James, after he failed, came over here to see his children, and died at Ipswich, in this country. I have heard that my grandfather had often presents sent to him by his friends in Derbyshire.

Yb. James Pierpont.

Endorsed from Mr. James Pierpont, Jan. 20, 1774."

James Pierrepont, of London, died at Ipswich, Mass. A careful search of the tombstones at Ipswich, and of the record made of them some forty years ago, discloses no traces of his burial there. It is probable that he was buried at Roxbury, the residence of his sons John and Robert.

By his wife, Margaret, who died in London, a widow in 1664, he had five children, viz.:

• 1. Hon. John Pierrepont, born in London, 1619, settled near Boston in 1640, leaving his father in London. In 1656 he purchased three hundred acres, now the site of Roxbury and Dorchester. Died Dec. 7, 1682, having been an influential citizen of Roxbury, and a Representative to the General Court. His grave is the old burying ground at Roxbury, and remains in tolerably good preservation to this day.
• 2. Robert Pierrepont, born in London in 1621, married Sarah. In the manuscript account of the early inhabitants of Ipswich, by Abraham Hammett, occurs the following: "Pearpoynte, Robert, was a subscriber to Major Denison's allowance in 1648;" also "John Pierpont purchased of Wm. Fellows, Nov. 15,1649, fifteen acres of land butting upon the land of John Brown on the south, and upon the land of Thomas Howlett on the west, upon the great brook toward the north." Farmer, on the authority of "Sarah Pierpont's deposition," 1724, says, "James Pierpont came from England and died at Ipswich, leaving two sons, John and Robert." Robert Pierrepont died at Roxbury, but in what year is unknown. His great grandson, Robert, went to Calais and St. Petersburgh under the patronage of his "kinswoman," the (soi disant) Duchess of Kingston.
• 3. Mary Pierrepont, born in Ireland.
• 4. Anne Pierrepont.
• 5. Martha Pierrepont, married Rev. William Eaton, vicar of Bridport, county Dorset. By thankful Stow, his wife, Hon. John Pierrepont had the following issue:
  • 1. John Pierpont, (as the family began now to write their name,) born 1652, died without issue, 1690.

Footnotes

• 1 Hollister's History of Connecticut, i, 459.
• 2. Bartow's Genealogy, p. 193.
• Savage's New England Settlers.
• Near Boston. The Dorchester precinct of Boston was named by this John Pierpont, after Henry Pierrepont, created Marquis of Dorchester in 1645
• 3 Communicated to the compiler by Dr. John Pierrepont C Poster, of New Haven, Conn.
• 4 The Cromwellian Era. 6 Bartow Genealogy, p. 193.
• 6. Family paper, in possession of H. K, Pierrepont, Esq., Brooklyn, N. y.

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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.

"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.

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supporting data

Margaret Nash in the England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973

• Name: Margaret Nash
• Gender: Female
• Marriage Date: 20 Jun 1610
• Marriage Place: Allhallows London Wall,London,London,England
• Spouse: Jeames Pirrepoynt
• FHL Film Number: 374335, 374336, 942.1 61 V26ALL PT 2, 942.1 L1 V26ALL PT 1

Ancestry.com. England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.

comments

"Americans Of Royal Descent". 2017. Google Books. Accessed May 1 2017. https://books.google.com/books?id=dIUaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA727&lpg=PA727&d... page 613-614] gives an erroneous parentage of Lady Frances Cavendish and Sir Henry Pierrepont.

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  • Ullmann, Helen S. 2007. The Pierponts of Roxbury, Massachusetts. Boston, Mass: Newbury Street Press.
• http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:James_Pierpont_%282%29
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