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Pierpont is spelled in many ways. In searching for any persons with this surname--- the most common ways to spell the surname are: Pierrpont, Pierpont, Pierrepont, Pierepont, and Pierpoint.
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While in Yale, Mr. Edwards became acquainted with the girl who later became his wife.
Sarah Pierpont was but 13 years old when the young student fell in love with her.
In a written description of her he said- “She is possessed of wonderful sweetness, calmness, and universal benevolence of mind. She will sometimes go about from place to place singing sweetly, and seems to be always full of joy and
pleasure, and no one knows for what. She loves to be alone, walking in the fields and groves, and seems to have someone invisible always conversing with her.”
They were married in 1727, soon after Jonathan ‘the Great Divine’, had been installed as Co-Pastor with his grandfather Rev Soloman Stoddard, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Jonathan served there 1727-1750.
Sarah Pierrepont-Edwards died of dysentery while on a trip to Philadelphia, PA in 1758, at only 49 years old.
She died just 7 months after husband Rev Jonathan Edwards died at Princeton, Mercer Co., New Jersey, from smallpox, from one of the earliest innoculations given to try to prevent it.
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The portrait on Sarah's memorial page was painted from life when she was 42.
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The memorial at the Bridge Street Cemetery in MA, (tall memorial) is a cenotaph. Sarah is buried with Jonathan at the Princeton Cemetery in NJ.
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Pierpont is spelled in many ways. In searching for any persons with this surname--- the most common ways to spell the surname are: Pierrpont, Pierpont, Pierrepont, Pierepont, and Pierpoint.
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While in Yale, Mr. Edwards became acquainted with the girl who later became his wife.
Sarah Pierpont was but 13 years old when the young student fell in love with her.
In a written description of her he said- “She is possessed of wonderful sweetness, calmness, and universal benevolence of mind. She will sometimes go about from place to place singing sweetly, and seems to be always full of joy and
pleasure, and no one knows for what. She loves to be alone, walking in the fields and groves, and seems to have someone invisible always conversing with her.”
They were married in 1727, soon after Jonathan ‘the Great Divine’, had been installed as Co-Pastor with his grandfather Rev Soloman Stoddard, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Jonathan served there 1727-1750.
Sarah Pierrepont-Edwards died of dysentery while on a trip to Philadelphia, PA in 1758, at only 49 years old.
She died just 7 months after husband Rev Jonathan Edwards died at Princeton, Mercer Co., New Jersey, from smallpox, from one of the earliest innoculations given to try to prevent it.
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The portrait on Sarah's memorial page was painted from life when she was 42.
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The memorial at the Bridge Street Cemetery in MA, (tall memorial) is a cenotaph. Sarah is buried with Jonathan at the Princeton Cemetery in NJ.
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Family Members
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Sarah Edwards Parsons
1728–1805
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Jerusha Edwards
1730–1748
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Esther Edwards Burr
1732–1758
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Mary Edwards Dwight
1734–1807
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Lucy Edwards Woodbridge
1736–1786
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Timothy Edwards
1738–1813
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Susanna Edwards Porter
1740–1803
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Eunice Edwards
1743–1822
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Jonathan Edwards Jr
1745–1801
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Elizabeth Edwards
1747–1762
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Pierpont Edwards
1750–1826
