Henry Pierson 2021 Materials

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Henry Pierson Sr (bef.1615-bef.1680)

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Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Directory (2015) ______ ______; works consulted as NEHGR 65:298; TAG 64:193-202; NYGBR 121:72-73; Winthrop Papers 4:240.

Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F (2001), 202-204 (John Cooper); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors; also 204.

Thomas W. Cooper II, "The Cooper-Pierson-Griggs Connection: Long Island, Massachusetts, and Buckinghamshire, England." The American Genealogist, 64 (1989):193-202; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.

For baptisms and marriages, Cooper cites the "Bishop's Transcripts for Olney Buckinghamshire at the County Record Office in Aylesbury,"

For 1662 deed, Cooper cites "Staffordshire County Record Office, Stafford, England,"

For 1667 lawsuit, "Pearson v. Kirbye," Cooper cites "PRO Ref. C5/421/171" and notes the earlier published record errored in transcribing critical dates. The earlier published report is, citing "Chancery Proceedings before 1714. C 22:113," Gerald Fothergill, "Notes from English Records" in "Notes," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 65 (1911):298-299; digital images, InternetArchive.

Henry Peirson 1680 estate, card index, "New York Probate Records, 1629-1971"; images, FamilySearch; cites Albany > Inventory card index 1600 > image 19 of 27; county courthouses, New York. Card Index, Henry Peirson of Southampton #173, notes, "see Abstr. I, 112."

Henry Pierson/Peirson 1680 estate papers, "New York Probate Records, 1629-1971"; images, FamilySearch (filmed images 558-564 of 825); cites county courthouses, New York;

filmed image 558 is folder, notes, "see Absr. I, 112";

filmed images 559-560 is inventory 8 November 1680 (apparent duplicate at 563-564), "allowed by the Court ... held ... March the 9th 1681";

filmed image 561 is 3 March 1680/1 petition for administration by "Mary Peirson ye Roligue or Widdow of Henery Peirson."

Henry Pierson estate abstract [aka, "Abstr. I, 112"], Abstracts of Wills ..., Vol. 1, 1665-1707, in Collections of the New-York Historical Society, Vol. 25 (1892), 112 (Henry Pierson, "Page 419"]; digital image, Hathi Trust.

Original Records of Administrations of Estates, Inventories and Accounts (New York), 1600's-1700's, 1700-1825; Author: New York. Surrogate's Court (Albany County); Probate Place: Albany, New York. Inventories of Estates, 1600s Accessed at Ancestry ($)

The First Book of Records of the Town of Southampton ... including ... Town Clerks Office from 1639 to 1660. (Sag Harbor, N.Y.: J.H. Hunt, book and job printer, 1874). between "Publisher's Notice" and "Contents,"; pages 29, 30, 32, 35, 39, 41-42, 42, 54-55, 56, 59- 60, 66, 69, 88, 105, 108, 132, 145, and perhaps others.

The Second book of records of the town of Southampton ... 1660 to 1717 (Sag-Harbor, N.Y.: John H. Hunt, printer, 1877), 59, 84, 149; digital images, Hathi Trust.

John Cooper 1662 will (transcribed), The Second Book of Records Southampton ... 1660 to 1717 (Sag-Harbor, N.Y.: John H. Hunt, printer, 1877), 25-26; digital images, Hathi Trust.

John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants ... (London: John Camden Hotten, 1874), 44 (Hopewell); digital images, Hathi Trust.

Isaac Lovell to John Winthrop, 11 May 1640, Allyn Bailey Forbes, ed., Winthrop Papers: Volume 4, 1638-1644 ([Boston]: The Massachusetts Historical Society, 1944), 4:239-240, in particular, 240; digital images, Hathi Trust; refers to "Henry Person sonne in law to goodman Cooper dwelling at Sawgust," as "the party who gaue his father noties of this"; editor references further works as, "W. 4. 103; 5 Collections, 1. 292-293," writing, "All that is known of Lovell is certain biographical information given in his letter to Governor Winthrop, May 2, 1637 (Winthrop Papers, III. 408-409)"; "Lechford's Notebook, 152-153."

Edwin Hatfield. History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (New York : Carlton & Lanahan, 1868), 205-209 (Rev. Seth Fetcher), in particular, 208 (Fetcher-Pearson 1681 marriage contract); digital images, Hathi Trust.

Edwin Hatfield. History of Elizabeth, New Jersey (New York : Carlton & Lanahan, 1868), 268 (Benjamin Pierson); digital images, Hathi Trust; "...Benjamin accompanied his mother ... He was then about 26 years old, and lived until 1731"; cites "Howell, p. 263. N. York Wills, II. 61-4."

Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Southward Press, Portland, Maine, 1928--), in 5 parts, paginated consecutively, 2:234 (10 Rev. Seth [Fletcher]); digital images of the full text (part 2) available at FamilySearch Books.

Everett Hall Pendleton, Brian Pendleton and his descendants, 1599-1910 ... ([East Orange? N.J.] Privately Printed, 1910 [c1911]), 29-30 (Mary^2 Pendleton); digital images, Hathi Trust.

William Nelson, Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976), 49 (East Jersey Patents, etc., Liber No. 4); digital images (limited preview), Google Books.

"1681. May 30. Marriage contract between Seth Fletcher of Elizabethtown and Mrs. Mary Pearson of Southampton, L. I., she has three children." (cites, "[page] 20")

"1682. Sept. 18. Letters of administration on the estate of Seth Fletcher, of Elizabethtown, Minister of the Gospel, deceased, granted to his widow, Mary. (cites "[page] 21")

William Nelson, Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976), 52 (East Jersey Deeds, etc., Liber No 4); digital images (limited preview), Google Books.

1682. Sept 6. Inventory of the estate of Seth Fletcher, of Elizabethtown, made by Henry Lyon and Isaac Whithead."

William Nelson, Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey (Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976), 53 (East Jersey Deeds, etc., Liber No 4); digital images (limited preview), Google Books.

1682-3 March 21. Quitclaim. Pembleton (Pendliton) Fletcher of Wells, Maine, to Mary, widow of Seth Fletcher, Henry Lyon, both of Elizabethtown, and Thomas Johnson of Newark, for claims upon the estate of his deceased father, Seth Fletcher. (cites "[page] 26")

Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (William White, Boston, 1853-54), 5 vols. in 6; all volumes available at Hathi Trust. (Negative search for notice of Henry Pierson.)

Deed Research. Essex (Massachusetts) Pearson grantee index begins at, FamilySearch

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Note: Sometimes seen as "Torrey," but this is the 2015 version and includes works consulted:
Pearson-[Cooper] by 1643? marriage, New England Marriages Prior to 1700 (2015), multiple vols., 2:1194 (Pearson); database and digital image by subscription, AmericanAncestors; works consulted as "Parke Anc. 80; Stamford Hist. 39; Miner Anc. 95; Pierson 22; Southampton 218, 348; NYGBR 10:12, 38:241; Southampton NY Rec. 2:25."

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Note: Entries that follow often refer to Henry as a brother or Rev. Abraham Pierson or married to Mary Cooper,

J. Lawrence Smith, et al., History of Suffolk County, New York. (New York: W.W. Munsell & co., 1882), 66; digital images, Hathi Trust.

Beverly Chew, "Bowen Whiting Pierson," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 38 (1907):241-244; digital images, Hathi Trust.

Lizzie B. Pierson, [George R. Howell, ed], Pierson Genealogical Records (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell, Printer, 1878), 22-23 (Family of Henry Pierson); digital images, Hathi Trust.

George Rogers Howell, "The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, with Genealogies" (New York: J. N. Hallock, 1866), 263-266 (Pierson family); digital images, Hathi Trust.

George Rogers Howell, "The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, with Genealogies", 2nd edition (Albany: Weed, Parsons and company, 1887), 348-353 (Pierson family); digital images, Hathi Trust.

Richard E. Pierson and Jennifer Pierson, Pierson Millennium (Heritage Books, 1997); ISBN 0-7884-0742-2. (Note: WorldCat description opens, "Person millennium covers the approximate period 850 AD to 1850 AD, a thousand years though some data earlier than 850 and later than 1850 is presented...")

Cuyler Reynolds, Hudson-Mohawk genealogical and family memoirs ... (New York : Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1911), 3 vols., 1:226-227 (The Pierson Line), in particular, 226; digital images, Hathi Trust. This is an unsourced biographical sketch; it contains numerous errors. For example, it reports Henry is the brother of Rev. Abraham Pierson, both as sons of Abraham and Christian (Johnson) Pierson. Reports Henry's wife is Mary Cooper, daughter of John. In reporting the children of Henry and Mary, sketch lists her first, "Abigail, born 1649; Henry ... ; Joseph, 1656; Benjamin ...; Theodore, born 1669; Sarah. Sketch continues, reporting family and select descendants of son Henry.

Charles B. Moore, "The Early History of Hempstead, L.I." New York Genealogical Biographical Record, 10 (1879), 5-16, in particular, 12 (32. Henry Pierson); digital images, Hathi Trust. Note: Short sketch full of errors.

William Richard Cutter, New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial ... (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), 4 vols, 3;1324-25 (Pierson); digital images, Hathi Trust. Note: Typical of Cutter's work, this is generally unsourced; it is error prone. Contains misinformation and shouldn't be used.

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Note These are other sources; most were not reviewed.

"His death has also been shown as Nov. 5, 1681, at Bridgehampton, L.I. (Sagg). (Genealogies of Long Island Families, 1600s-1800s ..." Note, presumably this is otherwise Henry Hoff, ed., Genealogies of Long Island Families, 1600s-1800s from The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987), 2 vols.; did not find this entry via index or search of "Pierson" at Ancestry vol. 1; vol. 2.

Emma Howell Ross, "Descendants of Edward Howell (1584-1655) of Westbury Manor, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, [England] and Southampton. Long Island, New York", 1st edition (Winchester, Mass.: The University Press, 1968) [Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 68-58987]; Emma Howell Ross and David Faris, Descendants of Edward Howell (1584-1655) of Westbury Manor, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, and Southampton, Long Island, New York, 2nd (revised) Edition (Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore 1985). Note: According to Edward Howell Family Association a 3rd (revised) Edition is expected soon.

Elmer E. Meyer, ed. (deceased), "The Pierson Kinship Historical Newsletter" [private address removed].

"Mayflower of London." Virginia is for Huguenots Blog. Friday, October 9, 2009; web content, Virginia is for Huguenots.

[https://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dhanke&id=I5709 "Hanke-Pierson Family" Rootsweb.

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