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	Timothy Pickering - LoveToKnow 1911
		TIMOTHY PICKERING (1745-1829), American politician, was born at Salem, Massachusetts, on the 17th of July 1745.
		Pickering was a member of the Pennsylvania convention of 1787 which ratified the federal constitution, and of the Pennsylvania constitutional convention of 1789-1790.
		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 1838-1842, and in1843-1845travelled in East Africa and India.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Timothy_Pickering (804 words)

	Timothy Pickering Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) was an American Revolutionary soldier before becoming secretary of war and then secretary of state under President Washington.
		Timothy Pickering was born in Salem, Mass., on July 17, 1745, the son of Timothy and Mary Wingate Pickering.
		Pickering died in Salem on Jan. 29, 1829.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/timothy-pickering (397 words)

	Timothy Pickering
		Colonel Pickering's house was attacked by rioters, and he would have been seized as a hostage for Franklin had he not escaped into the woods and thereupon made his way to Philadelphia, where he was chosen member of the convention for ratifying the new constitution of the United States.
		Pickering was one of the founders of the American oriental society and its president until his death, also president of the American academy of arts and sciences, and a member of various learned societies both at home and abroad.
		Pickering observed the solar eclipse of 1878 from Colorado, and in 1886 conducted an expedition to the West Indies to observe the total eclipse of that year.
	www.virtualology.com /ussecretaryofstate/timothypickering.org (3464 words)

	Pickering - LoveToKnow 1911
		PICKERING, a market town in the Whitby parliamentary division of the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, 32 m.
		During the civil wars of the 17th century the castle was held by the Royalists, and suffered greatly in siege.
		The district surrounding Pickering is agricultural, and the town is a centre of the trade.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pickering (195 words)

	Timothy Pickering
		Pickering's enlightened Native American policy may have inspired Peale (who had both scientific and humanistic interests in tribal cultures) to include this portrait in the museum.
		Pickering served as a Salem selectman and a representative to the colonial legislature.
		Pickering was removed from office in 1800, after he repeatedly defied President John Adams's policy of neutrality in foreign affairs.
	www.cr.nps.gov /museum/exhibits/revwar/image_gal/indeimg/pickering.html (387 words)

	Pickering, Timothy
		Pickering, Timothy (1745-1829) Secretary of State, Secretary of War: Timothy Pickering was born on July 17, 1745, in Salem, Massachusetts.
		Pickering was largely responsible for the efficient functioning of the quartermaster's department.
		Pickering's house was attacked by rioters, but he escaped being taken as a hostage by escaping into the woods.
	www.multied.com /Bio/nn/Pickering.html (635 words)

	Colonel Timothy Pickering - Quartermaster General 1780-1785
		Timothy Pickering was born at Salem, Massachusetts, on July 17, 1745, of a family prominent since the early years of settlement.
		Pickering served during the early campaigns of the Revolution, rising to a colonelcy in the Essex County militia.
		Pickering lived to be eighty-four and remained active to the end.
	www.qmfound.com /COL_Timothy_Pickering.htm (690 words)

	Timothy Pickering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Timothy Pickering (July 17, 1745 – January 29, 1829) was the third United States Secretary of State, serving in that office from 1795 to 1800 under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.
		Pickering was born in Salem, Massachusetts, and graduated from Harvard University in 1763.
		Unitl the 1990s, Pickering's ancestral home, the circa 1651 Pickering House, was the oldest house in the United States to be owned by the same family continually.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timothy_Pickering (447 words)

	Timothy Pickering Information
		Timothy Pickering (July 17, 1745 – January 29, 1829) was the third United States Secretary of State, serving in that office from 1795 to 1800 under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.
		In 1802 Pickering and a band of Federalists, agitated at the lack of support for Federalists, attempted to gain support for the secession of New England from the Jeffersonian United States.
		Pickering's ancestral home, the circa 1651 Pickering House, is the oldest house in the United States to be owned by the same family continually.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Timothy_Pickering (418 words)

	Yorktown Battlefield - Colonel Timothy Pickering (U.S. National Park Service)
		Timothy Pickering was born into a fifth generation New England family in Salem, Massachusetts.
		Pickering went on to succeed Nathanael Greene as Quartermaster General of the army in 1780.
		As Quartermaster General, Pickering was greatly concerned with the welfare of the common soldier.
	www.nps.gov /york/historyculture/pickeringbio.htm (269 words)

	MHS Timothy Pickering Papers, 1731-1927 : Guide to the Microfilm Edition
		Pickering was strongly opposed to the French Revolution and the pro-French Jeffersonians.
		Pickering's business in Virginia is discussed in correspondence with his agent William Prentiss and the state auditor, James E. Heath, as well as in letters from John G.
		Other Timothy Pickering papers include two letters to his daughter Elizabeth, a copy of an advertisement for the Potter Lands (1785?), a contract with the Richmond merchant William Prentiss (1821?), and several undated maps and papers related to Pickering's land speculations.
	www.masshist.org /findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0256 (4554 words)

	Search Results for "Timothy Pickering"
		Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829, American political leader and Revolutionary War army officer, b.
		Federalist extremists, such as John Lowell and Timothy Pickering, contemplated a separate peace between New England and...
		Pickering was a son of Col. Timothy Pickering, quartermaster-general of the Continental Army, and later Postmaster-General,...
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/sitesearch?FILTER=&query=Timothy+Pickering (230 words)

	Timothy Pickering & the Age of the American Revolution
		This biography focuses attention on the career of Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) prior to the climactic effects on him arid the Federalist party of the Jay Treaty and deteriorating Franco-American relations.
		Finally, Pickering's postwar career is examined on the Pennsylvania and New York frontier, with special attention to the Wyoming Valley disturbances and to Pickering's role as the federal government's chief Indian commissioner in the early 1790s.
		What particularly distinguishes this biography is its balanced appraisal of Pickering's character, his austerity, his sense of sacrifice for the public good, and his self-righteous obsession with the values of virtue and independence.
	www.ayerpub.com /Product.asp?ProductID=4400000019772 (215 words)

	Boston 1775: Timothy Pickering Oversees the Essex Militia
		Timothy Pickering, later U.S. Secretary of State, was colonel of the Essex County militia at the start of the Revolutionary War.
		Pickering's papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society include some documents from before the war that offer clues about how the militia trained and what equipment men came with.
		Pickering's papers also offer insight on the work of the regimental musicians: the drummers and fifers who were the signal corps of the unit.
	boston1775.blogspot.com /2006/10/timothy-pickering-oversees-essex.html (550 words)

	Pickering
		Timothy Pickering, born at Salem, Mass., 17 July 1745, graduated from Harvard in 1763.
		He fought in the American Revolution as a colonel in the Massachusetts militia in 1775, served as adjutant-general of Washington’s army in 1777, as a member of the Board of War from 1777 to 1780, and as Quartermaster General from 1780 to 1783.
		Pickering was permanently transferred to the Navy 20 May and Master Commandant Benjamin Hillar, USN, assumed command in June.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/p6/pickering.htm (331 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Timothy Pickering
		He opposed the patriot cause early in the American Revolutionary War, but in 1777 he accepted General George Washington's offer to be adjutant general of the American army, and was widely praised for his work in supplying the troops during the remainder of the conflict.
		After the first of two failed attempts to make money speculating in Pennsylvania frontier land, now-President Washington appointed Pickering commissioner to the Iroquois Indians, then named him to his cabinet as Postmaster General in 1791.
		After a quarrel with President John Adams over Adams's plan to make peace with France, Pickering was dismissed from office in May 1800.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Timothy_Pickering (441 words)

	Pickering, 1798
		Timothy Pickering, born at Salem, Massachusetts, 17 July 1745, graduated from Harvard in 1763.
		The Pickering was a brig that was built at Newburyport, Massachusetts in 1798 for the Revenue Service.
		She, along with the other six cutters built in 1798, were built as larger cutters than their earlier sisters due to their expected use as naval vessels during the Quasi-War with France.
	www.uscg.mil /history/WEBCUTTERS/Pickering_1798.html (506 words)

	David Pickering
		David was the youngest of John and Hannah Ingersoll Pickering's six sons and among the youngest of their dozen or so children.
		Pickering succeeded the recently deceased Edward Mitchell at the Society of United Christian Friends, an independent Universalist church in Manhattan.
		Pickering's career in Providence is treated in E. Capen, "Historical Discourse," A Half-Century Memorial of the Universalist Society in Providence, Rhode Island (1871) and Rubens Rea Hadley, "Historical Address," Centennial Book, First Universalist Society, Providence, R.I. His ministry in Butternuts, New York is mentioned in Duane Hamilton Hurd, History of Otsego County, New York (1878).
	www.uua.org /uuhs/duub/articles/davidpickering.html (1525 words)

	Timothy Pickering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Pickering wurde in Salem, Massachusetts, geboren und graduierte 1763 an der Harvard-Universität.
		Pickering wurde 1803 als Senator von Massachusetts in den US-Senat gewählt, was er bis 1811 blieb.
		Nach seiner politischen Karriere ging Pickering zurück nach Salem und lebte als Farmer bis zu seinem Tod 1829.
	www.jenskleemann.de /wissen/bildung/wikipedia/t/ti/timothy_pickering.html (202 words)

	Pickering, Timothy (17 July 1745-29 Jan
		Pickering, Timothy (17 July 1745-29 Jan. 1829), revolutionary war officer, cabinet officer, congressman, and senator, was born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of Timothy Pickering, Sr., a lay churchman and farmer, and Mary Wingate.
		Pickering, who entered the Senate in 1803, never reconciled himself to the fact that the Jeffersonian Republicans had become the majority party in the
		An important published source is Octavius Pickering and Charles W. Upham, The Life of Timothy Pickering (4 vols., 1867-1873).
	www.libarts.ucok.edu /history/faculty/roberson/course/1483/suppl/chpX/TimothyPickering.htm (1648 words)

	Pickering House at AllExperts
		The Pickering House (circa 1651) is a remarkable Colonial house, owned and occupied by ten successive generations of the Pickering family including Colonel Timothy Pickering.
		It is located at 18 Broad Street, Salem, Massachusetts and is open to the public under the auspices of the nonprofit Pickering Foundation.
		In 1751, Deacon Timothy Pickering raised a rear lean-to up to a full two stories, which is how the house exists today.
	en.allexperts.com /e/p/pi/pickering_house.htm (397 words)

	American President
		Involving himself in politics once more, Pickering was amongst those in the Pennsylvania state convention to ratify the U.S. (1787) and state (1790) constitutions.
		Pickering's stay in cabinet went on to include one year as secretary of war (1795), and six more as secretary of state under both Presidents Washington and John Adams (1795-1800).
		Timothy Pickering died on January 29, 1829, in Salem, Massachusetts.
	www.americanpresident.org /history/johnadams/cabinet/statesecretary/TimothyPickering/h_index.shtml (303 words)

	Textbooks by Timothy Pickering - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Timothy Pickering, a senator of the United States from the state of Massachusetts: Exhibiting to his constituents a view of the...
		Pickering's speech,: In the House of Representatives of the United States, on Saturday the 26th and Monday the 28th of February, 1814, the House being...
		Timothy Pickering,: Senator of the U.S. from the state of Mass.
	www.directtextbook.com /author/timothy-pickering (543 words)

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		Washington described Pickering as: a great Military genius, cultivated by an industrious attention to the Study of War, and as a Gentleman of liberal education, distinguished zeal and great method and activity in Business. In January 1778, Pickering left the army to serve on the Continental Congress's Board of War Committee.
		Pickering had seen first-hand how the troops at Valley Forge suffered from the lack of supplies and vigorously argued for reform of the department of the Quartermaster General, which supplied the army.
		In 1811, Pickering became the first senator to be censured after reading a confidential document openly during a Senate debate, and he lost his bid for re-election to the Senate.
	www.usps.com /postalhistory/_rtf/Pickering.rtf (3226 words)

	TIMOTHY PICKERING (174... - Online Information article about TIMOTHY PICKERING (174...
		Pickering was a member of the Pennsylvania See also:
		biography is that by his son, Octavius Pickering (1791–1868), and C.
		Pickering (his daughter), Life of John Pickering (Boston, 1887).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PER_PIG/PICKERING_TIMOTHY_174_1829_.html (1047 words)

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