Mary Fletcher

According to court records

• daughter #4 (b. ca. 1665, about age 17),
• Theodore (b. 1669, age 13), and
• daughter #5 (b. ca. 1673, about age 9)

Taken to live with her in Elizabeth Town in 1680.

From page 208 of History of Elizabeth, New Jersey By Edwin Hatfield. "May 30, 1681: Covenant / Contract and Agreement between Seth Fletcher and Mrs Mary Pearson."

Henry Pierson died after 1 July 1680 when he witnessed a Southampton town record and before 8 November 1680 when the inventory of his property was taken at Southampton. Henry was about 65 years old at death and the cause of death is unknown. Since no will existed, it is presumed that illness or an accident was sudden. Henry Pierson's inventory was taken by Capt. John Howell, John Jessupe, Mr. Edward Howell, and Thomas Cooper (Henry's half brother). This inventory included 11 pieces of land totalling about 100 acres worth about 700.

Mary married Rev. Seth Fletcher, the minister of Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in May 1682, but he died soon after. Mary died in 1687 in Southampton, Suffolk Co., Long Island, New York.

Colonel Henry Pierson, bp 10Dec1615, Olney, Buckinghamshire, as "harry pearson sonne of will pearson," d before 8Nov1680 Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY, bu Sagaponack, LI, NY, he came to this country about 1639 and settled at Lynn, MA. He was at Stamford, CT, ca 1640, and Hemstead, LI, NY about 1647. He was Town Clerk of Southampton for 30 Years (1650-1680) and Clerk of Suffolk County in 1669. "Said to have been founder of the common school system in America" (Sage Slocum, 33)

From https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

Shortly after Seth Fletcher's death in 1682, his widow Mary and her son Benjamin, with any other children that accompanied their mother to Elizabeth Town, returned to Southampton, and at least Mary Fletcher proposed to spend the balance of her life there, while Benjamin Pierson may have intended to do the same, but upon the gift by his mother (possibly as a wedding present) of the house property in Elizabeth Town, left to her by Seth Fletcher's will, he decided to return for a second time to Elizabeth Town with his bride for his new home, probably late in 1685. In all events, deeds made by Benjamin Pierson after the above transaction, in 1685, were all dated Elizabeth Town, and in 1694 his name appears in a subscription list for the preacher's salary at the Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth Town. (Pierson Family Line)