Background
He was born in 1609 in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, he was baptized on September 23, 1609.
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Some helps for the Indians: shewing them how to improve their natural reason, to know the true God and the true Christian religion ... : undertaken at ... of the commissioners of the United Colonies.
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Title: Some helps for the Indians : shewing them how to improve their natural reason, to know the true God and the true Christian religion ... : undertaken at the motion and published by the order of the commissioners of the United Colonies. Author: Abraham Pierson Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP02565100 CollectionID: CTRG98-B1626 PublicationDate: 16590101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: "1. By leading them to see the divine authority of the Scriptures. 2. By the Scriptures the divine truths necessary to eternall salvation." Imperfect: p. 4-23 lacking. English translation above Quinnipiac text. Collation: 3, 24-35 p
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Abraham Pierson Sr.
Edit ProfileEducation
He matriculated as a pensioner at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1629 and was graduated A. B. in 1632.
Career
On September 23, 1632, he was ordained deacon at the Collegiate Church, Southwell, Nottingham, under the jurisdiction of York.
He left England for the more salutary ecclesiastical atmosphere of Massachusetts, and was admitted to the church at Boston, September 5, 1640. Earlier in the year "divers of the inhabitants of Linne, finding themselves straitened, looked out for a new plantation", and going to Long Island founded what is now the town of Southampton. Hugh Peter records that in November 1640 he attended the formation of a church at Lynn.
He was strongly opposed to Southampton's uniting with Connecticut, which union was effected in 1644, because in Connecticut those not church members might become freemen; and in 1647 he removed to Branford, New Haven Colony, where John Davenport's church-state views prevailed. In this new settlement he organized a church of which he was pastor.
He also engaged in missionary activities among the neighboring Indians, and acquired some knowledge of their language, receiving financial compensation for this work from the Commissioners of the United Colonies. By their order and with the cooperation of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England, he translated a catechism he had prepared into the Quiripi dialect, assisted by Thomas Stanton, interpreter-general to the United Colonies for the Indian language.
Unwilling to remain in Branford after the absorption of New Haven by Connecticut - which he had vigorously opposed - in the summer of 1667, with practically his entire congregation, he again sought a new settlement where his views of church and state could be put into operation, and established himself at Newark, New Jersey. Here he remained as pastor until his death in 1678, assisted during the last nine years of his life by his son Abraham.
Achievements
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Abraham Pierson Sr. participated in establishment of a new township on Long Island, which was named Southampton. He also organized a church in Branford, New Haven Colony, of which he was pastor for about twenty years, thus, he was prominent in the general affairs of the colony. Besides, Pierson published a pamphlet entitled Some Helps for the Indians, a short statement of the fundamental principles of monotheism, with a linear translation into the Quiripi language.
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Some helps for the Indians: shewing them how to improve their natural reason, to know the true God and the true Christian religion ... : undertaken at ... of the commissioners of the United Colonies.
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Some helps for the Indians: shewing them how to improve their natural reason, to know the true God and the true Christian religion ... : undertaken at ... of the commissioners of the United Colonies.
Views
His conviction that church and state should act in harmony, the latter being governed in its procedure by the law of God, and that church members only should be freemen, was unshakable.
Personality
Pierson was a stern, unbending Puritan whose piety and learning came to be held in high esteem by the early New England clergy.
Connections
He was married, it is said to a daughter of Rev. John Wheelwright, though available information regarding Wheelwright's children makes the truth of this tradition doubtful.
