History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . IRE PIERSON. The Pierson family are of English extraction, andfor successive generations have resided in Westfieldtownship. The grandfather of Squire Pierson wasMoses, who had among his children a son Squire,whose early life was spent in Westfield. Having de-termined in 1816 to explore the boundless r&sourcesof the great West, he ultimately located in ButlerCounty, Ohio, then regarded, with a few exceptions,as the extreme point of Western civilization. Hemarried a Miss De Camp, of Fr
History of Union and Middlesex Counties, New Jersey with Biographical Sketches of many of their Prominent Men . IRE PIERSON. The Pierson family are of English extraction, andfor successive generations have resided in Westfieldtownship. The grandfather of Squire Pierson wasMoses, who had among his children a son Squire,whose early life was spent in Westfield. Having de-termined in 1816 to explore the boundless r&sourcesof the great West, he ultimately located in ButlerCounty, Ohio, then regarded, with a few exceptions,as the extreme point of Western civilization. Hemarried a Miss De Camp, of French descent, and hadchildren,—Moses, Squire, David, Stephen, Hiram,Mary, Sally, and Rebecca. His son Squire, the subject of this sketch, was bornin Westfield township, Oct. 1, 1796, where his earlylife was passed. At the period of his fathers emigra-tion to Ohio, and when nineteen years of age, he wasapprenticed to Squire Marsh as a tailor. Previous tothis he had acquired the rudiments of an educationat the familiarly-known Red School-House in township, and at the houses of his patrons. He. ^. /tl^^^n}^ /^^^^t^A-^ Henry Baker, tlie gnuulfather of the subjectof this biographical sketch, was of Welsh de-scent, and an early resident of Westtield town-ship. He married and had children,—Daniel,Jonathan I., William, Henry, Jeremiah, andPhebe, who became IMrs. Ludlow. Daniel Baker was born June 3, 1753, inWestfield, where his life was spent. He servedwith credit during the whole period of the Revo-lutionary conflict, and was in 1775 honoredwith a corporals position in his company. Hewas married to Margaret, daughter of Daniel(^sborn, of Connecticut Farms, whose birth oc-curred July 14, 1760. They had children,—David O., born in 1785; Daniel, whose birthtook place in 1790; Hedges, in 1792; Cyrus,born in 1795; Henry, in 1797; Elihu, in 1802;Mary, in 1780; Margaret, in 1784; Elizabeth,in 1789; Prudence, in 1794; Hannah, in 1800,and Electa, in 1804. Of this number, Daniel
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