Like many early settlers of Essex County, New Jersey, Samuel Pairson (a.k.a. Pierson) was a native of Connecticut. Born c.1663 in Branford, he was the eldest child of Thomas Pierson Sr. (surname spelled with an e) and the former Maria Harrison, the daughter of Richard and Sarah (nee Yorke) Harrison. The Pierson family moved to Newark, New Jersey, in the mid-1660's, when Samuel was three, and then farther west to the present day Bloomfield area. A carpenter by trade, Samuel married his first cousin, Mary Harrison, daughter of his maternal uncle, Sergeant Richard Harrison, in Newark c.1692. The couple afterwards were among the earliest settlers in the Orange Mountains area, where Samuel served as a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church of Orange. Both he and his widow, who survived him by only two years, are buried in its churchyard.
His gravestone, on which his surname is spelled "Pairson", states that he died in his 67th year. Cut from locally quarried brown sandstone, it features a soul effigy of the winged skull type in its tympanum, and is probably the work of a craftsman known as the Common Jersey Carver. The now partly illegible epitaph can be read in full from the 2002 photo taken by Nikita Barlow:
"Here lyes Interr'd under this mould
A precious heap of dust Condold
by Church of Christ and Children dear
Such were the objects of his Care"
His gravestone, on which his surname is spelled "Pairson", states that he died in his 67th year. Cut from locally quarried brown sandstone, it features a soul effigy of the winged skull type in its tympanum, and is probably the work of a craftsman known as the Common Jersey Carver. The now partly illegible epitaph can be read in full from the 2002 photo taken by Nikita Barlow:
"Here lyes Interr'd under this mould
A precious heap of dust Condold
by Church of Christ and Children dear
Such were the objects of his Care"
Like many early settlers of Essex County, New Jersey, Samuel Pairson (a.k.a. Pierson) was a native of Connecticut. Born c.1663 in Branford, he was the eldest child of Thomas Pierson Sr. (surname spelled with an e) and the former Maria Harrison, the daughter of Richard and Sarah (nee Yorke) Harrison. The Pierson family moved to Newark, New Jersey, in the mid-1660's, when Samuel was three, and then farther west to the present day Bloomfield area. A carpenter by trade, Samuel married his first cousin, Mary Harrison, daughter of his maternal uncle, Sergeant Richard Harrison, in Newark c.1692. The couple afterwards were among the earliest settlers in the Orange Mountains area, where Samuel served as a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church of Orange. Both he and his widow, who survived him by only two years, are buried in its churchyard.
His gravestone, on which his surname is spelled "Pairson", states that he died in his 67th year. Cut from locally quarried brown sandstone, it features a soul effigy of the winged skull type in its tympanum, and is probably the work of a craftsman known as the Common Jersey Carver. The now partly illegible epitaph can be read in full from the 2002 photo taken by Nikita Barlow:
"Here lyes Interr'd under this mould
A precious heap of dust Condold
by Church of Christ and Children dear
Such were the objects of his Care"
His gravestone, on which his surname is spelled "Pairson", states that he died in his 67th year. Cut from locally quarried brown sandstone, it features a soul effigy of the winged skull type in its tympanum, and is probably the work of a craftsman known as the Common Jersey Carver. The now partly illegible epitaph can be read in full from the 2002 photo taken by Nikita Barlow:
"Here lyes Interr'd under this mould
A precious heap of dust Condold
by Church of Christ and Children dear
Such were the objects of his Care"
Inscription
aged 67y
Gravesite Details
Genealogical links courtesy of Findagrave member P. Fazzini
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