The Pierpoint--Pierpont Family of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia

The Pierpoint--Pierpont Family of Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia

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I desire to register my deep appreciation to Mrs. Pierrepont Moflatt of New York City for her permission to use the data pub­ lished BY R. Burnham Moffatt, in his work entitled, “ Pierrepont Genealogies from Norman Times, which contains a most painstak­ ing account of the family on the other side of the Atlantic. His work is among the standard volumes of genealogies in the Library of Congress. The early data of the family on this side of the Atlantic has been culled from the voluminous records found in the records of Anne Arundel County, Maryland, and from the records of the Friends Meeting of Maryland and Virginia. The Friends’ records contain valuable records of births, marriages and deaths of the family, as well as other items of interest. For the completion of lines partially furnished in the printed matter we have added blank pages in the back of the book to BE used for the various branches of the family. Hoping each branch of the family will complete its own record, I am, with grateful ac­ knowledgment of all the assistance rendered me in compiling the records contained herein, Very sincerely yours, HATTIE M. PIERPONT. 929.2 H359 RF THE PIERPOINT-PIERPONT FAMILYor MARYLAN July. 1939 Ill“ lllll Wulu I rumuum 3 oooo 00159763 6” SEPTEMBER 1, 1955 DEAR COUSINS: Tans owponruuurv TO SHARE worn YOU THE unrea­ MATION I HAVE ACCUMULATEDon THE PIERPOINT-PIERPONT FAMILY, AND ADDED To THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THE GENEALOGY aoox PRINTED IN 1939 BY MY AUNT, Mus. WILLIAM Pnznpounr, as GREATLY APPRECIATED BY ME. GATHERING THIS INFORMATION HAS GIVEN ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO BROADEN MY FAMILY AOQUAINTANCE, WHICH INDEED HAS BEEN MOST PLEASANT. TO KNOW I AM A MEMBER OF SUCH A FINE GROUP, FILLS ME WITH A WARM BLOW: AM PROUD TO BE A PIERPO|NTo THE FORMAT OF THE BOOK AND CHARTS ARE MY IDEAS, AND I SINCERELY HOPE THEY MAKE THE BOOK INTERESTING TO YOU. MANY, MANY THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED ME GATHER THE FAMILY DATA CONTAINED IN THIS BOOK. WITH­ OUT YOUR WONDERFUL COOPERATION, THIS PROJECT WOULD HAVE BEEN IMPOSSIBLE. PLEASE KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND OONTINUE TO SEND IN ANY INFORMATION, CORRECTIONS OR ITEMS OF INTEREST THAT WILL HELP KEEP THE FAMILY RECORDS UP TO DATE. THERE IS STILL MUCH WORK TO BE DONE. IT MAY 9: or INTEREST TO YOU TO Know THAT THE VIRGINIA-MARYLAND MEMBERS or THE PIERPOINT FAMILY HAVE BEEN HOLDING nzuuuous IN EARLY SEPTEMBER SINCE 1957. IT IOULD as NICE IF nzuuuous WERE HELD AT oruzn PLAcEs T0O...SUOH A WONDERFUL wnv To BECOME ACQUAINTED warn on: ANOTHER. AGAIN, THANK YOU. BEST WISHES TO ALL OF‘YOU, gm/:Q»\,u :PiI/1fo'«.1I ~/%£v\IL».\ Mas. Tolvo E. HEDMAN ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA Second Printing - 1959 THE PIERPDNT FAMILY Is or NORMAN FRENCH ORIGIN. THE rIRsT PIERPONT or REcoRDED HIsToRY wAs SIR HUGHDE PIERRERoNn LDRD oF CAsTLE PIERREPDNT. }HIs cAsTLE WAS IN THE SOUTH or PIcARDY, SIX MILEs FRoM ST. SAuvEuR, NDRMANDY. AsouT 780, CHARLEMAONE, DEsIRINe To REAcH THE cAsTLE, AND NoT FINDIND A FERRY ovER THE sTREAM or IATER, cAusED A sToNE BRIDGE To BE 3uILT, AND THE FAMILY LIvINa IN THE cAsTLE REcEIvED THE NAME "PIERREPDNT," DR "STDNE BRIDGE." IN 1066, A DEscENDANT or THE FAMILY, SIR RoaERT PIERRE­ FONT, KNIGHT, WENT FRoM FRANDE To ENGLAND, As coMMANDER UNDER WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR. FDR DISTINGUISHED sERvIcE IN THE BATTLE oF HAsTINas, HE wAs KNIGHTED, AND eIvEN LAND IN NOT­ TINOHAMSHIRE. THE sAID RDBERT DE PIERREPONT wAs or THE RETINUE or WILLIAM EARL WARREN, AND IT APPEARS THAT BEsIDEs HOLDING LORDSHIPS IN SUFFOLK, AND HURST IN SussEx, IHICH Now RETAINs THE NAME or HuRsT PIERREPONT, HE HELD oTHER LANDs or eREAT ExTENT. IN THE FRENCH aENEALoeY or THE FAMILY, HE Is sAID TO BE ONE or THE LIEUTENANT GENERAL3 IN THE CoNQuERoR's ARMY. THIs RoaERT DE PIERREPONT WAS THE ANoEsToR or SIR HENRY PIERREPONT, BORN 15u5, wHo MARRIED FRANcEs CAvENDIsH, A DIRECT DEscENDANT or WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR'S DAUGHTER, IHO MARRIED THE EARL or SURREY AND WARNIDH. THIs Is IHERE THE NAME FRANcEs ENTERs INTo THE FAMILY, AND FRoM THAT TIME uNTIL Now, THERE HAS BEEN A "FRANcEs" IN ALMosT EVERY GENERATION. THE sAID SIR HENRY PIERREPONT HAD A NOBLE MoNuMENT EREC­ TED To HIs MEMDRYBY HIs WIFE, IN THE cHuRcH or HoLME, PIERREPONT, IITH THE INscRIPTIoN, "HERE LIETH THE BODY or SIR HENRY PIERREPONT, KNIGHT, IHO IN HIs LIFE TIME ADDDNDED IN coon woRxs, cHARITY, AND MANY DTHER vIRTuEs, FDR wHoM THE LADY FRANcEs PIERREPONT, ELDEsT DAUGHTER or SIR WILLIAM CAV­ ENDIsH, KNIGHT, AND THE MosT NoaLE AND RENOINED LADY ELIzA— BETH, HIs WIFE, LATE CouNTEss or SHREISBERRY, cAusED THIs MoNuMENT To BE MADE, BEING THE LEAST or MANY TEsTIMoNIEs sHE MATH GIVEN OF HER GREAT AND DEAR AFFECTIONS TOHARD HIM. HE DIED THE 19TH DAY DF MARCH IN THE YEAR oF OUR LORD 1615, AGED 69 AND A HALF." ROBERT, THE DNLY soN or SIR HENRY AND FRANcEs CAvENDIsH PIERREPONT, wAs IN HIS YouTH A GENTLEMAN oF ORIEL COLLEGE IN OxFoRD, AND oN THE 1sT or NovEMeER, 1bu2, HAD coNFERRED oN HIM BY THE UNIvERsITY THE DEGREE DF DocToR or LAN. BEIND or ExcELLENT PARTS, AND AMPLE FoRTuNE, AND or DREAT REPUTATION IN HIs couNTRY, HE IAS, BY LETTERS PATENT, ADVANCEDTo THE DIGNITY or BARDN or THIS REALM, wITH THE TITLE DF LoRD PIERREPONT or HoLHE—PIERRERDNT, AND VIsoouNT or NEIARK, AND THE FoLLowINe YEAR, 1645, wAs CREATED EARL oF KINGSTON-ON­ HULLO THE FAMILY coNTINuED As EARLs or KINGSTON-ON—HULL UNTIL THE 20TH DF JULY, 1715, THEY HERE DREATED DuxEs or KINssToN­ oN-HULL. EVELYN, THE LAST DUKE or KINasToN, wAs UNMARRIEO, AND THE DUKEOOMREVERTED To HIs SISTER, LADY FRANcEs_PIERRE­ FONT, NHD HAD MARRIED PHILLIP MEADows, Esq. 2 THERE ARE MANY GENERATIONS NOT MENTIONED IN THIS SHORT SKETCH OF THE PIERREPONTS, AND MANY INcIDENTs NoT RECORDED. THEsE DETAILS cAN BE FDUND IN THE MANY BOOKS IN THE LIBRAR­ IEs oF OUR ooUNTRY, AND IN THE ENGLISH AND FRENCH HIsToRIEs, AND GENEALOGIES. THE FAMILY Is OLD AND DISTINGUISHED, AND IT wDuLD TAKE sEvERAL VOLUMES To GIVE A FULL AND DETAILED HI5ToRY or THE PIERREPDNTS. THERE HAS BEEN MUCH coNTRovERsY ovER THE SPELLING oF THE NAME, wHIcH HAS BEEN SPELLED vARIous wAYs DowN THROUGH HIs­ ToRY. IN THE DUKERY REcoRDs oF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE, ENGLAND, THE NAME IS SPELLED FIvE DIFFERENT wAYs: PIERPONT, PERPOUNT, PYRRDINT, PERPONT, PIERPOUNTE; ALL or THEsE EXCEPT THE FIRST BEING coRRuRTIoNs or THE coRREcT SPELLING, WHICH IN THE ENGLISH FoRM Is PIERPONT —- PIER (sToNE), PDNT (BRIDGE). THE NEw ENGLAND LINE OF THE FAMILY wAs FDUNDED BY JOHN PIERRDNT wHo SETTLED IN IPSWICH, MAssAcHUsETTs IN 16hO. THE RELATIONSHIP BETwEEN THE NEw ENGLAND LINE AND THE VIRGINIA LINE HAs NOT YET BEEN DIscovERED. THE MARYLAND—VIRGINIA LINE sTEMs FROM HENRY PIERFDINT, wHo ARRIVED IN SOUTHERN VIRGINIA IN 1655. UNDER "IMMIGRANTS To VIRGINIA," VDL. VI, VIRGINIA COUNTYREcoRDs, PAGE 284, MAY 15, 1655, Is THE FoLLowING: "THEGE UNDERWRITTEN NAMES ARE To VIRGINIA EMBARKED IN THE PLAINE JOAN, RICHARD BUGKAM, MAsTER, THE PARTIES HAVING BROUGHT ATTEsTATIoN oF THEIR coN— FDRMITY To THE ORDERS AND DISCIPLINE or THE CHURCH oF ENGLAND? INcLuDEo oN THE LIST or PASSENGERS wAs HENRY PERPOYNT, AGED 22. THE REcoRD sTATEs THAT THE "BDNAVENTURE," wHIcH SAILED FRDM ENGLAND IN 1654, AND THE “PLAINE JDAN,“ wHIoH sAILED IN 1655, BoTH LANDED THEIR PASSENGERS IN THE lsLE oF WIGHT CoUNTY, VIRGINIA. IN THE BOOK, "EARLY VIRGINIA IMMIGRANTG," IT Is STATED THAT IN 1655, ELIZABETH LARKIN wAs BROUGHT INTo WASSAQUINOAKE CDUNTY BY JDHN UPTON, AND IN 1657, sHE wAs TRANSPORTED BY JDHN UPTON To THE "IsLE or WIGHT" CDUNTY. THERE Is GOOD REA­ soN TO BELIEVE THAT IT wAs ELIZABETH LARKIN wHoM HENRY PIER­ POINT MARRIED, As THE VIRGINIA REcoRDs sHow THAT AT THAT TIME SHE wAs THE ONLY sINGLE woMAN IN THAT coLoNY BY THE NAME DF ELIZABETH, AND wE Do KNOWTHAT HENRY PIERPOINT'S wIFE's NAME wAs ELIZABETH. No REcoRDs HAVE BEEN FOUND IN VIRGINIA To sHow How LONG HENRY PIERRDINT sTAYED IN VIRGINIA, BUT wE FIND MUCH ABDUT HIM AND HIS FAMILY IN THE REcoRDs DF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND. THE "FRIENDS" CHURCH HA5 MANY RECORDS coNcERN|Ne HIM AND HIS DEscENDANTs. FRDM THE EARLY sETTLERs LIsT oF ANNE ARUNDEL CouNTY WE HAvE THE FoLLowING As HAVING BEEN TRANSPORTED INTo THAT couNTY: HENRY PIERPOINT, ELIZABETH, wIFE or HENRY, AND THEIR CHILDREN. OF THE CHILDREN, AMI5 (AMOS) Is sINGLEo OUT As THE oLDEsT soN AND HIS FATHER PAID HIS wAY INTO THE coLoNY. THE oTHERs ARE NAMED IN A GROUP As FoLLows: JABIS (JABEz), ELIZABETH, HANNAH, Mosas. HENRY PIERPDINT ENTERED RIaHTs IN THE LAND OFFIcE AT ANNAPoLIs, MARYLANDON OCTOBER 30, 1665, FoR HINSELF AND ELIZABETH, HIs IIFE, AND.FIvE CHILDREN.

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