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Descendants of Nathaniel Piper

Generation No. 1

1. NATHANIEL² PIPER (JOSIAS¹) was born April 04, 1627 in Dartmouth, Devonshire, England, and died September 26, 1676 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. He married SARAH EDWARDS May 07, 1655 in Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts, daughter of RICE EDWARDS and ELINOR LNU. She was born 1634 in London, England, and died January 29, 1697/98 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

Notes for NATHANIEL PIPER:

Gen family his of New Hampshire; James Savage Gen dic; Gen of Fam of Solomon
Piper; Memory of Asa Piper of Wakefield H.H.; Gen rec Ipswich Rec Essex Co Reg
of deeds; Piper Gen Book page 12 by Horace Piper; Wenham res of Mass
      1. Nathaniel Piper ancestor of Elisha Piper, and so far as Horace was able to ascertain, of nearly; all the Pipers in this country were born in England, probably about 1630. He emigrated from Dartmouth, in Devonshire, and settled in Ipswich, Mass., as a farmer. James Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, represents him as being here in 1665. Solomon Piper, author of the Genealogy of the Family of Solomon Piper, says; "He drew a share and a half in Plum Island in 1665, and was an early inhabitant of Ipswich, Mass." Rev. Asa Piper, of Wakefield, N.B., in his genealogical record, says: "He emigrated from England to this country during the Revolution in the days of Charles the First," under Oliver Cromwill, which could not have been later than 1658. William T. Piper, in a recent search of the Ipswich records, now in the Essex County Registry of Deeds, finds, Book II, page. 251, a deed of marsh land on Jaffrey's Neck, Ipswich from Andrew Hodges to Nathaniel Piper, dated March 18,1662. Also, in the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds, Book I, page. 330, a deed from Martyn Stebens, of Boston, Mass., To Wm. Bartholomew, of Ipswich, dated Dec. 15,1653, and witnessed by Nathaniel Piper, which seems to prove conclusively that he came to this country as early as Dec. 15,1653. He married Sarah Edwards, and died in 1676, in Ipswich. His will, a copy of which is given in this book, and recorded in the Ipswich records, is dated March 7,1675, and was proved, Sept. 26,1676. After his decease his wife married Ezekiel Woodward, of Wenham, Mass., a carpenter. She was living in Wenham in 1696, and probably died there, but no record of the time of her death can be found. Her second husband, Ezekiel Woodward, died Jan. 29,1698, in Wenham.

NOTES FROM ANNALS OF MEREDITH, N.H.

      This name was spelled in early days Pyper. History states that Nathaniel Piper first operated a trading ship between Ipswich and other Bay Colonies, as shown in a "trail," "Nath Pyper versus John Keene," held at Ipswich, in 1673. History states that nearly all the Pypers in this country emigrated from Dartmouth in Devonshire, England, and settled in Ipswich.
      Solomon Pyper drew a share in Plum Island in 1665. He emigrated to America during the Revolution, in the days of Charles the First, under Oliver Cromwill(as old records).

      Nathaniel Pyper and his wife had twelve children.

From Family Tree Achieves: Related to Culliton family of Pipers in Devonshire county, England. Tptd descended from Magnus Piper of Nuestadt ( Germany?) Family traces to Lubeck, Germany.

NOTES FROM GENEALOGY OF ELISHA PIPER OF PARSONSFIELD, ME

      The name Piper is quite common in England. Burke, in his "General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, mentions, in the last edition (1878), seven families of that name, residing in different counties, which have been permitted, by the Sovereign of Great Britain, to bear a coat of arms. The family with which we are especially interested resides in Devonshire, from which county Nathaniel Piper emigrated to this country, It is called the Culliton House, or family, from the town of Culliton in which the estate is located, being a few miles east of Exeter. The estate was purchased of Sir John De La Pole, baronet of Shute, by John Piper, Esq. The family traces its lineage from Magus Piper of Neustadt, in Holstein, formerly a part of Saxony, whose ancestors were from Lubeck. The coat of Arms borne by the Culliton family is described by Burke as follows: "Quarterly, embattled gold and ermine, over all an eagle displayed sable, quartering azure, two chevrons gold." The motto is FEROCI FORTIOR, or, MORE BRAVE THAN FIERCE.
      John Piper, Esq., was born in 1740, and was a Captain in the 6th Regiment of Infantry. He was destined at an early age for the military profession, and sent to Berlin where he completed a scientific and military course of study. In 1757, he entered the army, and fought the battle of Minden in Prussia, where he was wounded through both legs. He afterward served in the West Indies, participating in the capture of Martinique. He also served in America, to which he came in the 25th Regiment, in 1769, and was appointed to the staff. While in this country, he married Frances Ayrault, second daughter and co-heiress of Stephen Ayrualt, Esq., of Newport, Rhode Island, the only remaining representative of a distinguished and opulent Huguenot family. He returned from this country to England with his wife in 1782, and retired from military life in 1788, to the Culliton estate, where he lived with his family till his death in 1802.
      He had by his wife, Frances, three sons: 1st, John, born in 1783. He was knighted with the title of C.B., and was Colonel in the 4th or King's Own Regiment of Infantry. He served in Canada, Holland, Denmark, Flanders, Spain, Portugal, France, and the West Indies; and finally fell a sacrifice to the pernicious effects of climate, in 1821, in the thirty-eighth year of his age, his death being hastened by exhaustion from the last and almost mortal wound which he received in the vertebrae of the neck, in the neighborhood of Bayonne, in November 1813. 2nd Samuel Ayrault Piper, born in 1787. He was Surgeon of the 30th Regiment of his Majesty's troops. 3re, Robert Sloper Piper, born 1790. He was Major of the Corps of Royal Engineers, and served in six campaigns under the Duke of Wellington, in Spain, France, and Flanders. He was also Commanding Engineer in the Canadian Province during the insurrection in 1817 and 1818. He retired on full pay, as Lieut. Colonel. (most of the facts here related of the Culliton family have been taken from "Burk's General Armory," and his "Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Land Gentry of Great Britain and Ireland.")
      Horace had not been able to ascertain whether Nathaniel Piper is related to this family or not, but the fact that it resides in the same county from which he emigrated to this country, and that the names, John and Samuel, are found in both families, have been retained as favorite names in a large number of the families of descendants of Nathaniel Piper, renders it possible that both families are descended from the same common ancestor, Magus Piper of Holstein. There is no doubt, however, that both are of Saxon or Anglo-Saxon origin.

Captain Nathaniel Piper was an experienced sea-faring man, and operated a trading ship between Ipswich and other Bay Colonies. This is shown in a "trial", Nath Pyper versus John Keene," held in Ipswich, in 1673.

Nathaniel was only fifty years of age when he died in Ipswich.

More About NATHANIEL PIPER:
Event 1: Abt. 1653, Emigrated from Dartmouth,England
Religion: Family motto: "MORE BRAVE THAN FIERCE"
Residence: Settled in Ipswich, MA about 1653

More About SARAH EDWARDS:
Comment 1: Remarried after Nathaniel's death to
Comment 2: Ezikial Woodward of Wenham,MA

Children of NATHANIEL PIPER and SARAH EDWARDS are:

SARAH³ PIPER, b. 1656, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. 1675, under 21 years of age.

Notes for SARAH PIPER:
Was living in 1675, being under twenty-one years of age; died.

2.	ii.	NATHANIEL PIPER, b. June 25, 1658, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. 1689, Ipswich, Massachusetts.
	iii.	MARY PIPER, b. November 06, 1660, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. February 18, 1660/61, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
	iv.	JOSYAH PIPER, b. December 18, 1661, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. Aft. 1675.
3.	v.	JOHN PIPER, b. 1663, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. Unknown, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts.
	vi.	MARY PIPER, b. December 15, 1664, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. Aft. 1690, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

More About MARY PIPER:
Comment 1: Died in infancy.

4.	vii.	THOMAS PIPER, b. November 26, 1666, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. 1767, Stratham, Rockingham, New Hampshire.
5.	viii.	MARGARET PIPER, b. June 16, 1668, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. Aft. 1706, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
6.	ix.	SAMUEL PIPER, b. June 12, 1670, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. October 31, 1747, Stratham,Rockingham, New Hampshire.
7.	x.	JONATHAN PIPER, b. 1672, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. May 11, 1752, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
	xi.	WILLIAM PIPER, b. 1674, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts; d. June 18, 1674, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

More About WILLIAM PIPER:
Comment 1: Died in childhood

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