History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . as amaster-mariner ; Samuel,died at sea; and Sarah,widow of the late SamuelWhite, of Biddeford. His wife died in married for his secondwife, Nov. 10,1803, Sarah,daughter of Jeremiah Hill,of Biddeford. She diedOct. 24, 1853, aged sev-enty-eight. Her father was collectorof customs for the districtof Saco, 1789 to 1809,member of the Legislaturefor six terms, an officer inthe Revolutionary War,and received in 1787 fromHarvard University thehonorary degree of Masterof Arts. He died
History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . as amaster-mariner ; Samuel,died at sea; and Sarah,widow of the late SamuelWhite, of Biddeford. His wife died in married for his secondwife, Nov. 10,1803, Sarah,daughter of Jeremiah Hill,of Biddeford. She diedOct. 24, 1853, aged sev-enty-eight. Her father was collectorof customs for the districtof Saco, 1789 to 1809,member of the Legislaturefor six terms, an officer inthe Revolutionary War,and received in 1787 fromHarvard University thehonorary degree of Masterof Arts. He died in children by this mar-riage were Jeremiah H.,of Biddeford; George W.,an apothecary of Biddeford, and died in 1860 ; Abbie, diedin 1860 ; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel P. Chase, died , 1876, aged sixty, the mother of Judge Samuel , of Saco; Daniel, died in 1826; Harriet, died in1837 ; and Thomas M., died in January, 1865. Mr. Peirson was eminently a Christian gentleman of theold school. He carried himself to extreme old age withmilitary crectness, was scrupulously courteous in his man-. ners, self-possessed, affable, generous, tender-hearted, andtrue. An intimate of the most estimable men of his town,all classes and all ages loved him and did him honor,—akind friend, a faithful husband and father, given to hos-pitality. He wore to the last the old-fashioned small-clothesand knee-buckles, but kept abreast with the times in activityof thought and general information. Dissenting from thepopular theology, he joined heartily with a few of his fellow-citizens and of Saco inbuilding a church upon apure gospel foundation, un-fettered by human fearless truthfulness andsincerity marked him inall his words and acts. In-teresting anecdotes mightbe related of his courage,both military and was noted for humorand racy wit, that gave zestwithout bitterness to hisconversation. In his manytrials he was cheerfullysubmissive to the goodGod in whom he trusted
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