The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . James, • a student in y9liberall arts. graduated at Harvard College in 1681. and wasminister of Xew Haven at the time of his death in brother Benjamin led a company from Roxbury in 1G91to found an independent church in >outh Carolina, and diedin the ministerial office in Charleston in 1G98. He gave hislands and mill interests in Roxbury to his brother James. This is another of the principal families of Roxbury that,after being c
The town of Roxbury: its memorable persons and places, its history and antiquities, with numerous illustrations of its old landmarks and noted personages . James, • a student in y9liberall arts. graduated at Harvard College in 1681. and wasminister of Xew Haven at the time of his death in brother Benjamin led a company from Roxbury in 1G91to found an independent church in >outh Carolina, and diedin the ministerial office in Charleston in 1G98. He gave hislands and mill interests in Roxbury to his brother James. This is another of the principal families of Roxbury that,after being conspicuous for more than a century, has whollydied out here. From it have sprung the Connecticut Pier-ponts. John Pierpont. poet and clergyman, and Edwards Pierre-pont, minister to England. Sarah Pierpont. daughter of Rev. 326 pierpont. James and grand-daughter of John, became the wife of theeminent Jonathan Edwards. The only person of the name tothrow discredit upon it was an adopted son of Hannah, widowof Robert Pierpont, on whose petition to the General Courthis name was changed from John Murdock to Robert Pier-pont. The facts were these : —. PILLORY. Pierpont, the owner, and Storey, mas-ter of the brig Hannah, having procureda heavy insurance on their cargo for avoyage to the West Indies, the vessel wassunk in Boston Harbor, Nov. 22, 1S01, and alarge part of the insurance collected. Fraudbeing proved both as to the lading and lossof the brig, the court decreed that Pierpontand Storey be set in the pillory in StateStreet two several times, one hour eachtime, and imprisoned two years and paythe costs of prosecution. The sentence wasduly executed, the pillory being placed neari Change Avenue. This, it is believed, wasthe last time this punishment was ever in-flicted in Boston. Of Joe Pierpont, a small-sized man of Roxbury,nicknamed the Duke of Kingston (whose family name wasPierpont), the story is told that he fought with the William Montague, commonly called Mad
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