For the English churchman, the subject's father, see Abraham Pierson, the elder.
American Congregational minister
The Reverend
Abraham Pierson
Statue of Rev. Abraham Pierson, Old Campus of Yale College, circa. 1879
1st Rector of the Collegiate School
In office 1701–1707
Succeeded by
Samuel Andrew as pro tempore
Personal details
Born
1646 Southampton, Long Island
Died
March 5, 1707 (aged 60–61) Killingworth, Connecticut
Abraham Pierson (1646 – March 5, 1707[1]) was an American Congregational minister who served as the first rector, from 1701 to 1707, and one of the founders of the Collegiate School — which later became Yale University.
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AbrahamPierson (1646 – March 5, 1707) was an American Congregational minister who served as the first rector, from 1701 to 1707, and one of the founders...
Pierson College is a residential college at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Opened in 1933, it is named for AbrahamPierson, a founder and the...
founding ministers, AbrahamPierson, became its first Rector, the administrative and ecclesiastical head of the college. After Pierson, four more ministers...
pro tempore of the Collegiate School between 1707 (the death of Rev. AbrahamPierson, the first rector) and 1719. During his tenure the school was renamed...
Algonquian language went extinct in the late 19th century. Reverend AbrahamPierson translated the catechism into Quiripi in 1658. Reverend Ezra Stiles...
opened in the home of its first rector, AbrahamPierson, who is today considered the first president of Yale. Pierson lived in Killingworth (now Clinton)...
General Court of the Colony of Connecticut. Originally situated in AbrahamPierson's home in Killingworth, Connecticut, the college moved to Old Saybrook...
Representative Jeremiah H. Pierson and Sarah (née Colt) Pierson. Through her father, she was seventh in descent from AbrahamPierson, the first president of...
vocabularies was a 67-page bilingual catechism compiled in 1658 by AbrahamPierson, the elder, during his ministry at Branford, Connecticut, which remains...
in descent from AbrahamPierson, the first president of Yale University beginning in 1701. The first American Pierson, AbrahamPierson the Elder, came...
Morse was not a slaveowner but expressed pro-slavery sympathies, and AbrahamPierson's views on slavery are unknown. The other two colleges are named for...
first official historian of the university. Pierson was a descendant of Yale's first rector, AbrahamPierson, and he was related to the college's first...
Haven: Killingworth Court after Killingworth, Connecticut, where Rector AbrahamPierson first held classes, and Saybrook Court after Old Saybrook, Connecticut...
wanted to name the new community after Milford, Connecticut. However AbrahamPierson was to urge that the new community be named "New Ark" or "New Work"...
dissidents from Branford were led by AbrahamPierson, the elder. Treat wanted the new community to be named Milford. Pierson, a devout Puritan, preferred the...
needed] Financing to build Pierson Middle-High School was gifted by Sage. It was named for her maternal ancestor AbrahamPierson, one of the early European...
minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain; United States Attorney General AbrahamPierson (class of 1664) – first rector of Yale's precursor, the Collegiate...
Lord's Prayer and a bilingual catechism by the English missionary AbrahamPierson in 1658. Coweset is only attested in a handful of lexical items that...
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