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PICKERING, TIMOTHY (174 1829) , American politician, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, on the 17th of July 1745. He graduated from Harvard College in 1763 and was admitted to the bar in 1768. In the pre-revolutionary controversies he identified himself with the American Whigs; in 1773 he prepared for Salem a paper entitled State of the Rights of the Colonists; in 1775 he drafted a memorial protesting against the Boston Port Bill; and in 1776 he was a representative from Salem in the General Court of Massachusetts. In 1766 he had been commissioned lieutenant and in 1769 captain in the Essex county militia; early in 1775 he published An Easy Plan of Discipline for a Militia, adopted in May 1776 by the General Court for use by the militia of Massachusetts, and he was elected colonel of his regiment. In the same year he became judge of the court of common pleas for Essex county, and sole judge of the maritime court for the counties of Suffolk, Essex and Middlesex . In the winter of 17761777 he led an Essex regiment of volunteers to New York
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The standard biography is that by his son, Octavius Pickering (17911868), and C. W. Upham, The Life of Timothy Pickering (4 vols., Boston, 18671873). In the library of the Massachusetts Historical Society at Boston, there are sixty-two manuscript volumes of the Pickering papers, an index to which was published in the Collections of the society, 6th series , vol. viii. (Boston, 1896).His son, JOHN PICKERING (17771846), graduated at Harvard in 1796, studied law and was private secretary to William Smith, United States minister to Portugal, in 17971799, and to Rufus King, minister to Great Britain, in 17991801. He practised law in Salem and (after 1827) in Boston, where he was city solicitor in 18271846, and wrote much on law and especially on the languages of the North-American Indians. He was a founder of the American Oriental Society and published an excellent Comprehensive Dictionary of the Greek Language (1826). See Mary O. Pickering (his daughter), Life of John Pickering (Boston, 1887). Timothy Pickering's grandson, CHARLES PICKERING (1805-1878), graduated at Harvard College in 1823 and at the Harvard Medical School in 1826, practised medicine in Philadelphia, was naturalist to the Wilkes exploring expedition of 18381842, and in 18431845 travelled in East Africa and India. He wrote The Races of Man and their Geographical Distribution (1848), Geographical Distribution of Animals and Man (1854), Geographical Distribution of Plants (1861) and Chronological History of Plants (1879). End of Article: PICKERING, TIMOTHY (174 1829) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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