Pierpont family papers, 1811-1941.

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Pierpont family papers, 1811-1941.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270927734

Contains materials from the Boardman, Crosby, McGlenen and Pierpont families ranging in date from 1811 to 1941. The collection consists of clippings, letters, genealogical notes, manuscript poems and journal entries, printed material, receipts, and a family record book. Of note are items once belonging to John Pierpont, Jr. and William Alston Pierpont, both sons of Rev. John Pierpont, including account books, catalogues of books, a journal, a scrapbook, and a theological school notebook. The remainder of this small collection documents the efforts made by various family members to record the history of the Pierpont family through memoirs and genealogies.

.90 cubic feet.

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7229914

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Crosby family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p64tcg (family)

Pierpont, John, 1785-1866,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69p3cbp (person)

Unitarian clergyman, poet, and reformer. From the description of Papers of John Pierpont [manuscript], 1825-1885. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647953935 American poet. From the description of Passing away -- a dream : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed, [1837 or later]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 560671584 John Pierpont was born in Connecticut in 1785; he graduated from Yale in 1804 and tried several professions before beco...

Crosby, Mary.

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Boardman, Arthur

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j70m87 (person)

Boardman family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66n2cn2 (family)

Pierpont family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61d12rb (family)

The Pierpont family traces its history in the United States back to 1640, when the Hon. John Pierpont and his wife, Thankful Stowe, settled in Massachusetts. There they purchased three hundred acres in Roxbury in 1656. Their son, James, attended Harvard, and later went on to become one of the founders of Yale College where he lectured to the students as a Professor of Moral Philosophy. His great grandson, Rev. John Pierpont, was born in 1785 in Litchfield, Connecticut. Educated at Yale, John Pie...

Pierpont, John, 1819-1879

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dn4nt7 (person)

Unitarian minister, son of Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866), uncle to John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). From the description of Autograph manuscript sermons, 1844-1858. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270930672 Son of the Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866), uncle of John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). From the description of Ledger, 1855-1857. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270935962 ...

McGlenen family.

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Pierpont, William

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