Mary Elizabeth Pierpont

109. Rev. John Pierpont,6 b Litchfield, Conn., 6 April, 1785; d 1866; m (1) 23 September, 1810, Mary Sheldon Lord. He married a second time, but had no children by his second wife. He is sometimes called the "poet Pierpont," because of a book of poems he published, entitled "Airs of Palestine and other Poems." He was successively a lawyer, merchant and clergyman. From 1819 to 1845 he was pastor of a Congregational Church in Boston, later was minister at Troy, N. Y., and at Medford, Mass. He was an ardent abolitionist and temperance reformer, and when the war broke out in 1861 became chaplain of a Masachusetts regiment. He had issue, all by his first wife:

(354) William Alston Pierpont

(355) Mary E. Pierpont7 b Newburyport, Mass., 18 September, 1812.

(356) Juliet Pierpont

(357) John Pierpont7 b Boston, Mass., 24 November, 1819; lived at Savannah, Ga.

(358) James Pierpont

(359) Caroline Augusta Pierpont

Bibliographic information:

• Title Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman Times to 1913
• Author R. Burnham Moffat
• Publisher Priv. print. [L. Middleditch Company], 1913
• Original from the University of Michigan
• Digitized Feb 18, 2009
• Length 211 pages
• Page: 63
• https://books.google.com/books?id=dInRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA57&lpg=PA57&dq=...

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(B.) John Pierrepont, or (Pierpont,) born April 6, 1785, at Litchfield, Conn., married Sept. 23, 1810, died 1866. He was succesively a lawyer, a merchant, and pastor of a Congregational church in Boston, Massachusetts, from 1819-45, afterwards in Troy, N. Y., and Medford, Massachusetts, till 1856. In 1861 he became Chaplain of a Massachusetts regiment, and soon after was appointed to a clerkship in Washington. He published "Airs of Palestine, and other Poems," and lectured extensively throughout the United States.

He was an abolitionist, and a temperance reformer. He was twice married; by his second wife he had no children. By his first wife he had:

1. William Alston, born July 11, 1811, at Litchfield, married, first, Mary C. Ridgway, of Syracuse, N. Y., second, Sarah Turelle, of Boston. Had one daughter, Mary L.

2. Mary E., born Sept. 18, 1812, at Newburyport, unmarried in 1857.

3. Juliette, born July 30, 1816, at Baltimore, married 1836, Junius S. Morgan, of Hartford, Conn. Their children:

1. John Pierrepont, born April 17, 1837.

2. Sarah Spencer, born Nov. 5, 1844.

3. Junius Spencer, born April 6, 1846.

4. Juliette P., born Dec. 24, 1847.

4. John, born Nov. 24, 1819, at Boston, Massachusetts, was in Savannah, Ga., in 1857.

5. James, born April 25, 1822, at Boston Massachusetts, married Mellicent Cowen, of Troy, Sept. 4, 1846. Their children:

1. Mary, born Aug. 20, 1847.

2. John, born Aug. 11, 1849.

6. Caroline Augusta, born Aug. 21, 1823, at Boston, married J. M. Boardman, of Macon, Ga. Their children:

1. Arthur E.

2. Maria F.

3. Juliette M.

4. Mellicent P.

5. Frederick M.

6. George L.

7. Henry II.

Bibliographic information:

• Title A Genealogical Abstract of Descent of the Family of Pierrepont: From Sir Hugh de Pierrepont, of Picardy, France, A.D. 980
• Compiled by Edward J. Marks
• Publisher Hoggson & Robinson, Printers, 1881
• Original from Harvard University
• Digitized Feb 2, 2008
• Length 41 pages
• Page 32
• https://books.google.com/books?id=_eAUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=...

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