Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866) was born at Litchfield, South Farms, Con- necticut to James and Elizabeth Collins Pierpont. He married his fourth cousin Mary Sheldon Lord in 1810. They lived first in Litch- field then moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts. In 1819 he accepted a call to Hollis street church in Boston, Massachusetts after finish- ing the Divinity School in Cambridge. Mary Sheldon Lord (1787-1855) was a daughter of Lynde Lord, Esq., and Mary Lyman. She died in Med- ford, Massachusetts. This couple had six children. Descendants live in New York, Massachusetts, Georgia, Connecticut and elsewhere.