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be a Committee to procure and present to the Honourable Timothy 

 Pickering a suitable Medal, with appropriate emblems, expressive 

 of the high estimation in which the Society hold his services as Pre* 

 sident." The Committee wore preparing to execute this charge 

 (substituting a Cup for the Medal, from respect to an opinion ex- 

 pressed by Col Pickering in relation to the form of such compli- 

 ments) when his long course of active usefulness was suddenly ter- 

 minated. On his lamented decease the Committee deemed that 

 they should best fulfil the intention of the Society by presenting to 

 you, his eldest surviving Son and Executor, the compliment design* 

 ed for your respected Father : — They therefore, in behalf of the 

 Essex Agricultural Society, present to you this Cup, end at the 

 same time would express their respect for those talents and virtues 

 which make you the worthy inheritor of your Father's honors. 

 We are, Sir, very respectfully, your obedient servants, 



EBENEZER MOSELEY, 

 DANIEL ADAMS, 

 JAMES H. DUNCAN. 



MR. PICKERING'S ANSWER. 



To Ebenezer Moseley, 

 Daniel Adams, and 

 JAaiES H. Duncan, Esquires, 



Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society. 



Boston, Sept. 28, 1S29. 

 Gentlemen — I have received, with those feelings which the oc- 

 casion could not but excite, the Donation on behalf of the Essex 

 Agricultural Society, which was originally intended for my father, 

 as their late President. Had he survived to have received it him- 

 self from his friends, and associates, who constitute that respectable 

 body, this testimonial of their respect and of the value attached to 

 his efforts in promoting the honourable and important objects of the 

 Society, would have been highly grateful to him. The affectionate 

 remembrance of myself, on this occasion by that Association of in- 

 telligent citizens, whose names will ever be honourably connected 

 with the history of my native County, and whose partiality has new 

 conferred on me this additional mark of the personal regard which 



