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Captain John Peirson of Falsgrave, Scarborough (died 1818), was reputed to have made a fortune of £80,000 trading in his own ship the 'John and Mary' to the Baltic. He adopted, as his heiress, his niece Anne (dau. of Gowan Peirson of Goathland) who later married Dr Harland of Scarborough |