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See also:PICKERING, See also:TIMOTHY (174 1829) , See also:American politician, was See also:born at See also:Salem, See also:Massachusetts, on the 17th of See also:July 1745. He graduated from Harvard See also:College in 1763 and was admitted to the See also:bar in 1768. In the pre-revolutionary controversies he identified himself with the American Whigs; in 1773 he prepared for Salem a See also:paper entitled See also:State of the Rights of the Colonists; in 1775 he drafted a memorial protesting against the See also:Boston See also:Port See also:Bill; and in 1776 he was a representative from Salem in the See also:General See also:Court of Massachusetts. In 1766 he had been commissioned See also:lieutenant and in 1769 See also:captain in the See also:Essex See also:county See also:militia; See also:early in 1775 he published An Easy See also: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 See also:colonel of his See also:regiment. In the same See also:year he became See also:judge of the court of See also:common pleas for Essex county, and See also:sole judge of the maritime court for the counties of See also:Suffolk, Essex and See also:Middlesex. In the See also:winter of 1776–1777 he led an Essex regiment of See also:volunteers to New See also:York, and he subsequently served as See also:adjutant-general (See also:June 1777–See also:Jan. 1778) and later as quartermaster-general (1780–1785) ; he was also a member of the See also:board of See also:war from the 7th of See also:November 1777 until its abolition. With the aid of some See also:officers he See also:drew up, in See also:April 1783, a plan for the See also:settlement of the See also:North-See also:West territory, which provided for the exclusion of See also:slavery. In 1785 he became a See also:commission See also:merchant in See also:Philadelphia; but in See also:October 1786, soon after the legislature of See also:Pennsylvania had passed a bill for erecting See also:Wyoming See also:district into the county of Luzerne, he was appointed prothonotary and a judge of the court of common pleas and clerk of the court of sessions and orphans' court for the new county, and was commissioned to organize the county. He offered to See also:purchase for himself the See also:Connecticut See also:title to a See also:farm, and in the following year he was appointed a member of a commission to See also:settle claimsaccording to the terms of an See also:act, of which he was the author, confirming the Connecticut titles (see WYOMING VALLEY and WILKES-See also:BARRE). Pickering was a member of the Pennsylvania See also:convention of 1787 which ratified the Federal constitution, and of the Pennsylvania constitutional convention of 1789–1790. In November 1790 he negotiated a See also:peace with the See also:Seneca See also:Indians, and he concluded See also:treaties with the Six Nations in July 1791, in See also:March 1792 and in November 1794. Under See also:Washington he was postmaster-general (1791–1795), secretary of war (1795), and after See also:December 1795 secretary of state, to which position he was reappointed (1797) by See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams. In 1783, while he was quartermaster-general, he had presented a plan for a military See also:academy at West Point, and now, as secretary of war, he supervised the West Point military See also:post with a view to its See also:conversion into a military academy. As See also:head of the state See also:department he soon came into conflict with Adams. His hatred of See also:France made it impossible for him to sympathize with the See also:president's efforts to settle the See also:differences with that See also:country on a peaceable basis. Ile used all his See also:influence to hamper the president and to advance the See also:political interests of See also:Alexander See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, until he was dismissed, after refusing to resign, in May 1800. Returning to Massachusetts, he served as See also:chief See also:justice of the court of common pleas of Essex county in 1802–1803. He was a See also:United States senator in 1803–1811 and a member of the Federal See also:House of Representatives in 1813–1817. As an ultra Federalist—he was a prominent member of the See also:group known as the Essex Junto—he strongly opposed the purchase of See also:Louisiana and the War of 1812. He died at Salem, Massachusetts, on the 29th of See also:January 1829.
The See also:standard See also:biography is that by his son, Octavius Pickering (1791–1868), and C. W. Upham, The See also:Life of Timothy Pickering (4 vols., Boston, 1867–1873). In the library of the Massachusetts See also:Historical Society at Boston, there are sixty-two See also:manuscript volumes of the Pickering papers, an See also:index to which was published in the Collections of the society, 6th See also:series, vol. viii. (Boston, 1896).
His son, See also:JOHN PICKERING (1777–1846), graduated at Harvard in 1796, studied See also:law and was private secretary to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, United States See also:minister to See also:Portugal, in 1797–1799, and to See also:Rufus See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King, minister to See also:Great See also:Britain, in 1799–1801. He practised law in Salem and (after 1827) in Boston, where he was See also:city See also:solicitor in 1827–1846, and wrote much on law and especially on the See also:languages of the North-American Indians. He was a founder of the American See also:Oriental Society and published an excellent Comprehensive See also:Dictionary of the See also:Greek See also:Language (1826).
See See also:Mary O. Pickering (his daughter), Life of John Pickering (Boston, 1887).
Timothy Pickering's See also:grandson, See also:CHARLES PICKERING (1805-1878), graduated at Harvard College in 1823 and at the Harvard Medical School in 1826, practised See also:medicine in Philadelphia, was naturalist to the Wilkes exploring expedition of 1838–1842, and in 1843–1845 travelled in See also:East See also:Africa and See also:India. He wrote The Races of See also:Man and their See also:Geographical See also:Distribution (1848), Geographical Distribution of Animals and Man (1854), Geographical Distribution of See also:Plants (1861) and See also:Chronological See also:History of Plants (1879).
End of Article: PICKERING, TIMOTHY (174 1829)
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