Sunday, February 4, 2018

Genealogy Story – The Pierpont Wives

I’ve previously written about all the wives on my Russell family line, going back to the original Russell immigrant in 1730 (*1). For completeness, I’d like to do the same on my mother’s Pierpont family line going back to my great*7 grandfather, James Pierpont, who settled in New Haven and is the progenitor of most of the New England Pierpont family. As before, I will look at the maiden name of each of the wives and where they came from. On this line of my family tree, every family mentioned below were immigrants from England during the period 1620-1640.

Like in the Russell family, many of these individuals were married more than once, so this contains information on the 14 women whom these Pierpont men married. In fact, I am struck by the fact that it appears being unmarried was not something that men desired, so that if their wife predeceased them, they shortly remarried, even if they were well along in years.


James Pierpont (1659-1714)
I’ve written about James previously (*2), but I’ll summarize his marriages here.

Abigail Davenport (1672-1691)
Abigail was the granddaughter of John Davenport, the leader of the Puritan group who settled New Haven in 1638.

Sarah Haynes (1679-1696)
Sarah was the granddaughter of John Haynes, an immigrant who was one of the founders of the Connecticut Colony in Hartford, which was named after his former town of Hertford, England.

Mary Hooker (1673-1740)
Mary was the granddaughter of Rev. Thomas Hooker, the other co-founder of the Connecticut Colony.

Joseph Pierpont (1704-1748)
Hannah Russell (1705-1791)
Hannah was the daughter of Rev. Noadiah Russell, one of the other founders of Yale along with Joseph’s father, James. Noadiah was the son of an immigrant from England to the New Haven Colony.

Joseph Pierpont (1730-1824)
Lydia Bassett (1736-1783)
The Bassett family were also immigrants from England to the New Haven Colony.

Annis Warner [Curtis] [Blakeslee] (1734-1800)
The Warner family were among the early settlers of the Connecticut Colony in Hartford.

Ezra Pierpont (1757-1842)
Mary Blakeslee (1762-1827)
The Blakeslee family were among the prominent families who had founded the New Haven Colony. Mary’s mother was a descendant of the Alcox family who were the first settlers in my hometown of Wolcott, CT, then called Farmingbury.

Deborah Curtis Parker (1771-1842)
The Curtis family immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Great Migration. At the time that Ezra married Deborah, she was living in Wolcott, CT. Her mother was another descendant of the Alcox family.

Austin Pierpont (1791-1848)
Sally Beecher (1794-1846)
The Beecher family were among the original settlers of the New Haven Colony. For more information on the Beecher family, see (*3).

Emily ?? [Sperry] (1791-) Only married to Austin for 1 year when he was killed by lightning.
Apart from the fact that Emily was a widow from the town of Bethany, nothing else is known about her.

Charles Pierpont (1825-1884)
Mary Ann Warner (1828-1911)
The Warner family were among the early settlers of the Connecticut Colony.

Wilson Pierpont (1855-1921)
Annie Merrill (1859-1898)
The Merrill family came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony as part of the Great Migration.

Anna Root [Hall] (1842-1938)
I’ve recounted her story in (*4). The Root family were among the early settlers of the Connecticut Colony.

Harold Granger Pierpont (1898-1969)
Sara Blackman (1898-1979)
I’ve recounted her story in (*5). The Blackman family were among the early settlers of Fairfield, CT, which was part of the Connecticut Colony.

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