. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . heUnited States, but he declined to serve. He wasjudge of the supreme court of New Hampshire in1790-5, and at one time chief justice, and subse-quently judge of the U. S. district court for NewHampshire ; but his mind became impaired, and hewas removed from office in 1804. Dartmouth gavehim the degree of LL. D. in 1792. PICKERING, Timothy, statesman, b. in Sa-lem. Mass., 17 July, 1745; d. there, 20 Jan., was great-great-grandson of John Pickering,who came from England and settled in Salem in1642. Timothy was graduated at Harvard in 1 ?!&
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . heUnited States, but he declined to serve. He wasjudge of the supreme court of New Hampshire in1790-5, and at one time chief justice, and subse-quently judge of the U. S. district court for NewHampshire ; but his mind became impaired, and hewas removed from office in 1804. Dartmouth gavehim the degree of LL. D. in 1792. PICKERING, Timothy, statesman, b. in Sa-lem. Mass., 17 July, 1745; d. there, 20 Jan., was great-great-grandson of John Pickering,who came from England and settled in Salem in1642. Timothy was graduated at Harvard in 1 ?!>::.He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in1768, but practised very little, and never attaineddistinction as a lawyer. He served for some time asregister of deeds for Essex PI unity, and at the sametime showed considerable interest in military stud-ies. In 1766 he was commissioned by Gov. Ber-nard lieutenant of militia, and in 1775 was electedcolonel, which office he held until after he hadjoined the Continental army. Twelve days after. PICKERING his election he witnessed and peacefully resistedCol. Leslies expedition to Salem. On 19 April hemarched at the head of 300 men to cut off the re-treat of the British frmn Lexington, and at sunsethad reached Winter Hill, in Somerville, a few min-utes after the Britishhad passed on theirdisorderly retreat toCharlestown. In lateryears political ene-mies unfairly twittedhim for failing to ef-fect the capture of thewhole British force onthis occasion. In thecourse of that year hepublished a small vol-ume, illustrated withcopper-plate engrav-ings, entitled AnEasy Plan of Disci-pliue for a was a useful book,and showed consid-erable knowledge of the military art. It wasadopted by the state of Massachusetts, and wasgenerally used in the Continental army until su-perseded by the excellent manual prepared byHuron Steuben. In September, 1775, Col. Pickeringwas commissioned justice of the peace, and twomonths later judge of the
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