Rev. Samuel Pierson

Samuel Pierson (I), son of Thomas Pierson, was born in 1603 in Yorkshire, England and was baptised 27 Feb 1603/04 at Guiseley, Yorkshire, England. Samuel attended Trinity College, graduated in 1620, and was ordained on 12 March 1624/25 at Petersborough. He married Elizabeth Armitage, daughter of Thomas, on 19 January 1629/30 at Rotherham, Yorkshire, England. She was baptised 31 July 1603 at Calverley, Yorkshire, England. They settled in Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England where he was a clerk in 1632, became a preacher in 1633, and vicar in 1642.

They had the following children:

  1. "A yonge daughter of Mr. Sam. Peirson not baptised was buried" 2 Feb 1630/31 at Dewsbury, Yorkshire.

  2. Samuell Peirson baptised 11 April 1632 at Dewsbury.

  3. Thomas Pierson, Sr. was baptised 6 August 1634 at Dewsbury. Weaver. He came to America about 1661 and married Maria Harrison on 27 November 1662 in Branford, Connecticut. They had 6 children. In May 1666 they joined his uncle, Abraham Pierson, and moved to New Jersey where they helped to found the town of Essex. He died in 1701 in Newark, Essex Co., New Jersey.

  4. Abraham Pierson was baptised 1 December 1636 at Dewsbury.

  5. Isaac Peirson was baptised 2 October 1639 at Dewsbury.

  6. Elizabeth Pierson was baptised 20 April 1642 at Dewsbury.

  7. James Pierson was baptised 29 June 1648 at Dewsbury.

Lizzie Pierson said of Samuel Pierson in her 1878 book, "In 1642, the Rev. Samuel Pearson was presented to the vicarage of Dewsbury in Yorkshire, vacated by Rev. H. Adams."
From Pierson Millennium: His career was further elaborated on in the transcribed registers of Dewsbury. A couple "maryed by Samuell Pearson, clerke, preacher at Dewsburye of God's worde." "The Rev. Samuel Pearson became Vicar of Dewsbury in July 1642 and was buried 6th October 1656. He brought an action against the Vicars of Huddersfield, Almondbury, Kirkheaton, and Bradford, to recover the pensions payable by them to him as Vicar of Dewsbury; and the depositions in this action, taken in Michaelmas Term (the quarter of the year containing September 29), 1653, are printed in the 26th and 27th Articles on Dewsbury Parish Church, which appeared some years ago in the Dewsbury Reporter. Mr. Pearson is said to have been ejected from his living by the Putitans (during Cromwell's reign), but if so, he must have been allowed to return, for he obtained an order dated 4th November, 1651, from the Committee for Plundered Ministers, for £30 a year, to be paid for increase of his maintenance, out of the impropriate titles of Hartshead, and this allowance continued to be made until sometime in the year 1655, when we find Mr. Pearson petitioning the Commissioners for managing Estates Under Sequestration, that the allowance may be continued to him and the arrears paid (Royalist Composition papers, 1st Series, Vol. 50, p. 317). The above-mentioned tithes would be part of the property of the Rectory of Dewsbury, which in 1348, was appropriated to St. Stephen's College, Westminster."

Elizabeth died in 1651 and was buried 27 September 1651 at Dewsbury, Yorkshire. Samuel died in 1656 and was buried 6 October 1656 at Dewsbury, Yorkshire.

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