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acknowledgments appear in the Prefaces to indicate it. Among other 

 works of Dr. Allen maybe cited: Baccalaureate Addresses, 1823- 29 ; 

 Junius Unmasked, written to prove that Lord Sackville was the real 

 Junius; Account of Shipwrecks, Psalms and Hymns, 1835 ; Memoirs 

 of Eleazar Wheelock and of Dr. John Codman, 1853; An Historical 

 Discourse on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Second Church in Dor- 

 chester, 1848 ; Discourse on the Close of the Second Century of the 

 Settlement of Northampton, Massachusetts, 1854 ; Wunnissoo, or the 

 Vale of Hoosatunnuk, a poem, with notes, 1856 ; besides various mi- 

 nor productions. In 1812, Dr. Allen married Maria M. Wheelock, 

 daughter of President Wheelock. The degree of D. D. was con- 

 ferred upon him by Dartmouth College in 1821. He died at North- 

 ampton on the 16th July, 1868. 



Octavius Pickering was born in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, Sep- 

 tember 2, 1791, where his father resided six years, having removed 

 thither from Philadelphia, to which city he returned in 1792. In 1801 

 his father came back to Massachusetts, and settled near Salem. Octa- 

 vius was admitted to the Freshman Class in Harvard University in 

 1806, and was graduated in 1810. He studied law in the office of his 

 brother, John Pickering, was admitted to practice in 1816, and took an 

 office in Salem, where he continued to reside during a few years, until 

 his removal to Boston, in which city and in Cambridge he lived the 

 remainder of his life, excepting an absence of seven years in Europe, 

 mostly spent in England and France. He died in Boston, October 

 29, 1868. 



He early began the practice of reporting. In 1820 he reported the 

 proceedings in revising the Constitution of Massachusetts, and in 1821, 

 with his friend, William H. Gardiner, reported the trial on the im- 

 peachment of Judge Prescott. Though he did not practise what is 

 technically called short-hand, yet he had adopted many abbreviations, 

 and was quick in hearing, and rapid and accurate in penmanship ; so 

 that at the time of his appointment, in 1822, as reporter to the Supreme 

 Court, he had superlative qualifications for that position, which he held 

 eighteen years, during which time, and subsequently, he was employed 

 in making and publishing his reports. 



His brother, John Pickering, had pretty early begun to gather mate- 

 rials for the biography of their father, Timothy Pickering, who was 

 Quartermaster-General in the war of the Revolution, subsequently 

 Secretary of War and of State, a member of each house of Congress, 



