This portrait was done after Richard Pearson (Pierson) was knighted in Scotland in the later 1500s. Thence, he became Sir Richard Pierson.
found on ancestry.com
Thursday, October 20, 2011
RICHARD PIERSON 1516-1540
[Ancestral Link: Harold William Miller, son of Edward Emerson Miller, son of Anna Hull (Miller), daughter of William Hull, son of William Hull, son of Sarah Wilcox (Hull), daughter of Mary Pierson (Wilcox), daughter of Abraham Pierson, son of Abraham Pierson, son of Abraham Pierson, son of Abraham Pierson, son of Richard Pierson, son of Richard Pierson .]
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This is a portrait of Royal Navy Captain Richard Pierson, who commanded HMS Serapis, when captured by John Paul Jones, aboard Bonhomme Richard, during the American Revolution, in 1779.
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