Robert Pierpont, of Roxbury

Robert Pierpont was born 1621 in London, England, and died 16 MAY 1694 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He was the son of 2. James Pierpont and 3. Margaret.

He married Sarah Lynde 18 FEB 1656/1657 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, daughter of Thomas Lynde and Margaret Martin. She was born 16 APR 1639 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, was christened 14 APR 1639 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, and died AFT 3 SEP 1725 in of Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

Children

1. James Pierpont b: 30 NOV 1657 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
2. Margaret Pierpont b: 13 MAR 1659 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
3. Margaret Pierpont b: 13 MAR 1659 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
4. Jonathan Pierpont b: 8 OCT 1663 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
5. Jonathan Pierpont b: 11 JUN 1665 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 20 AUG 1665 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
6. Thomas Pierpont b: 7 JUL 1667 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 11 AUG 1667 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
7. Ezra Pierpont b: 10 JUL 1669 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
8. Sarah Pierpont b: 29 NOV 1671 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
9. Margaret Pierpont b: 30 APR 1672 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 5 MAY 1672 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
10. James Pierpont c: 25 OCT 1674 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
11. James Pierpont b: 28 OCT 1675 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
12. James Pierpont b: 27 AUG 1677 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
13. Robert Pierpont b: 31 DEC 1678 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
14. Sarah Pierpont b: 24 MAY 1680 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts c: 29 MAY 1680 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts

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.

• 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.

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• Reference: Ancestry Genealogy - SmartCopy: Apr 30 2017, 1:42:55 UTC