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Hezekiah Pierrepont : ウィキペディア英語版 | Hezekiah Pierrepont
Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont (1768-1838)〔 was a merchant, farmer, landowner and land developer in Brooklyn and New York state. He restored the spelling of the family surname from "Pierpont" to "Pierrepont", its original French spelling.〔 ==Life and career== Pierrepont was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1768 of a long-established New England family〔 – his grandfather was one of the founders of Yale University.〔 After making some money by speculating on the national debt,〔 in 1793 Pierrepont, at the age of 25, launched a career as a merchant-adventurer. He relocated to Paris and, with his cousin, began to import goods to France, later expanding the company's scope to India and China. The business came to an end when his ship, the ''Confederacy'', was captured in the China Sea by privateers in 1797, while he was onbaord. Having made a small fortune, he was now bankrupt, and returned to the United States.〔〔〔 He settled in Brooklyn in 1802.〔Gallagher, John J. "Pierrepont (), Hezekiah" in p.1001〕 Pierrepont married Anna Marie Constable, from a prominent New York merchant and landowning family, and through a wedding present from her father, William Constable, of a half a million acres of land, became a major property owner in upstate New York; the town of Pierrepont, New York is named after him. He bought – part of the Livingston estate, plus the Benson, De Bevoise and Remsen farms〔Rizzo, Joanna. ("Pierrepont: Seeing great potential across the river in Brooklyn" ) ''The Real Deal'' (July 30, 2008)〕 – on what was then called "Clover Hill", now Brooklyn Heights, and built a mansion there.〔〔 Pierrepont purchased and expanded Philip Livingston's gin distillery on the East River at what is now Joralemon Street, where he produced Anchor Gin. Although very popular, competition from other distillers cut into his profits, and he left the business in 1819.〔
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