"Evelyn Pierpont,5 b New Haven, 15 March, 1755; d New Haven 7 February, 1808; m March, 1780, Rhoda Collins (dau. of Charles Collins of Litchfield, Conn.) d Livonia, N. Y., 1855. Evelyn Pierpont was an officer in the Revolution and after its close settled as a farmer at Litchfield, Conn.; but becoming reduced in circumstances he found employment at Yale College, of which he was a graduate, and continued in such employment until his death. Being the oldest son of James Pierpont … he would have been the recipient of the titles and estates of the English family had the claim thereto asserted by his ancestors been recognized or successfully contested."