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The seven daughters of Timothy Pickering were married as follows : Sarah, to 

 John Clarke (parents of the late Kev. John Clarke of Boston, and Mrs. Francis 

 Cabot) ; Mary, first, to the Rev. Dudley Leavitt (parents of the late Mrs. Dr. Joseph 

 Orne, Mrs. William Pickman, and Mrs. Isaac White, whose daughter, Sarah, be- 

 came Mrs. Pickering), — second, to the late Chief-Justice Nathaniel Peaslee Sar- 

 geant ; Lydia, to George Williams (parents of the late Samuel Williams, consul, 

 &c., Mrs. Pratt, Mrs. Lyman, and others) ; Elizabeth, to John Gardner (parents 

 of the late Samuel P. Gardner and Mrs. Blanchard) ; Lois, to John Gooll (parents 

 of Mrs. Judge Putnam, who, with her widowed mother, once formed part of the 

 family of her uncle, the Hon. John Pickering) ; Eunice, to her cousin, Paine Win- 

 gate, Senator of the United States from New Hampshire (parents of George Win- 

 gate, a graduate of Harvard College in 1796, and other children) ; Lucia, to Israel 

 Dodge (parents of the late Pickering Dodge, Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Devereux, and 

 others). The members of this family were remarkable for their longevity. Mrs. 

 Wingate's age a little exceeded one hundred years, and her husband was for some 

 years the oldest surviving graduate of Harvard College. 



The few particulars now mentioned may be sufficient to indicate these wide- 

 spreading branches of the Pickering family. 



Colonel Timothy Pickering, who was born in 1745, and died in 1829, married 

 Rebecca White, and they had first eight sons, and then twin daughters, Mary and 

 Elizabeth. Their eighth son was Octavius Pickering, well known as a reporter 

 of decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Of the father, whose 

 exalted character as a patriot and statesman is indelibly impressed on the history 

 of his country, we need say nothing here, except to notice one of his most gratify- 

 ing honors, which became intimately connected with the subject of our eulogy. 

 Washington, on retiring from the presidency, in 1797, presented Colonel Pickering, 

 his fellow-soldier and friend, with a splendid piece of silver plate, from his own 

 service, as a memorial of his cordial esteem and confidence. This treasure, of 

 priceless value, was bequeathed by the Colonel to his son, John, and by him to his 

 daughter, Mary Orne Pickering. May it always find possessors equally worthy of 

 such a treasure ! 



Mr. Pickering's two sons, John and Henry White, graduated at Harvard Uni- 

 versity, the one in 1330, the other in 1831 ; both are happily settled in Boston, 

 the former in the profession of the law, the latter in commercial business. The 

 proprietor of the ancestral estate, in Salem, is still John Pickering. 



