New Haven · Inscription transcriptions
New Haven tombstone inscriptions erected before 1800 · scan page 110
Uncorrected OCR. Name spellings, dates, symbols and column order may be wrong. Verify against the original scan. Dexter’s historical transcription covers legible pre-1800 stones in the crypt, the Green and Grove Street Cemetery. Bold type identifies crypt entries; OCR does not preserve that distinction reliably. Historical stone locations are not modern grave coordinates. Read with the 1914 corrections.
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57-1- INSCRIPTIONS ON TOMBSTONES IN XEW HAVEN. 691 [C'jpi] HERE LYETH Y BODY OF Y REV M' JAMES PIERPOINT Y LATE FAITHFUL & ABLE MINISTER OF Y GOSPEL IN N. HAVEN. AN ELOQUENT MAN & MIGHTY IN Y' SCRIPTURES, WHO BEING FERUENT IN SPIRIT CEASED NOT FOR THE SPACE OF 30 YEARS TO WARN EVERY ONE DAY AND NIGHT W" TEARS: WHEN HE FINISHED HIS COVRSE NOV. 22' 1714 JETATIS 55 ANAG. Pie repone te. Also M' MARY the 3' wife of the above REV M- James PIERPOINT who died NOVEMBER i" 1740 iEtatis Suae 68. «»'i \C>y/^t.] 693 [C^nU! Church tal>L-L] M' ABIGAIL PIERPONT Sarah Pikrpont DECEASED FEB THE 3' died Oct. 7, 1696, J£. 23 IN THE 20"' YEARE OF HER AGE. 1691. 69-1 [(^"'iiy^-J THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED. UNDER THIS MONUMENT LIES BURIED THE PRECIOUS DUST OF M' SARAH PIERPOINT CONSORT OF M- JAMES PIERPOINT '''' Son of John and Thankful (Stowj, of Roxbury, Mass.; b. Jan. 4, 1659-60; grad. Harv. Coll. 16S1; ordained July 2, 1685; m., Oct. 27. 1691, Abigail Davenport; next m., May 30, 1694, Sarah Haynes; next m., July 26, 1698, Mary, dau. of Rev. Samuel and Mary (Willet) Hooker, of Farmington, b. July's, 1673. "'•'■^ Dau. of John and Abigail Davenport (No. 281); b. Sept. 15, 1672. '*' Dau. of Ruv. Joseph and Sarah (Lord) Haynes, of Hartford; 2d \vf. of James Pierpont. The gravestone is missing; cf. No. 356. "^^■' Dau. of Nathaniel and Martha (Cunnable) Breck, of Boston; m., 1727, James, b. May 21, 1699, grad. Yale Coll. 1718; he next m., March 28, 1754, Anne Sherman, who survived him.
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Silent Grounds Collective, Church Burial & Death Records, CH-P009-0110. New Haven tombstone inscriptions erected before 1800, printed page not verified, PDF page 110. [Dexter, Franklin Bowditch], 1842- [from old catalog] ed; digitized copy contributed by The Library of Congress https://archive.org/details/inscriptionsonto00dext/page/n110/mode/1up Accessed September 8, 2026.
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