When Joseph Pierson was born in 1804, in Southampton, Southampton, Suffolk, New York, United States, his father, Gordon Pierson, was 37 and his mother, Mrs. Gordon Pierson, was 33. He died in 1855, at the age of 51.
English: variant of Pearson .
North German: patronymic from the personal name Pier, a variant of Peer, vernacular shortened form of Peter . Compare Peerson .
History: Born in Yorkshire, England, Abraham Pierson (1609–78) was the first pastor of the settlements at Southampton, Long Island, NY; Branford, CT, and Newark, NJ. He left his library of more than 400 books, one of the most extensive in the colonies, to his son Abraham, who was one of the first trustees of Yale College.
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