Pierson Family.

Job Pierson (1791-1860) was a lawyer and politician who served in Congress as a representative of New York from 1831 to 1835. He was born September 23, 1791 in Bridgehampton, New York and died April 9, 1860 in Troy, New York. He was the son of Samuel Pierson and Jerusha Conkling and a descendant of Henry Pierson, one of the early settlers of Southampton, Long Island. He graduate from Williams College in 1811 and went on to study law in Salem and Schaghticoke, New York. After being admitted to the bar in 1815, he began practicing law with Herman Knickerbocker in Rensselaer County, New York. Before being elected a member of the United States House of Representatives, he was district attorney in Rensselaer County, New York. After his time in Congress, he was elected Surrogate of Rensselaer County in 1835. He married Clarissa Taintor Bulkeley of Williamstown, Massachusetts on September 24, 1815. She was the daughter of Joshua Robbins Bulkeley and Sarah Bulkeley Taintor and a descendents of Rev. Peter Bulkeley, one of the founders of Concord, Massachusetts.

Job and Clarissa Pierson had five children, Sarah Jerusha (1816-1866), Samuel Dayton (1819-1850), Job (1824-1896), Mary Bulkeley (1825-1851), and John Bulkeley (1828-1885). Sarah Jerusha Pierson married Philip Titus Heartt in 1839 and had 8 children. Mary Bulkeley Pierson married Major Oscar F. Winship in 1854 and had one child. John Bulkeley Pierson was married to Mary Lockwood until her death. He was married for a second time to Harriet L. VanSchoonhoven.

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