The Pickering genealogy : being an account of the first three generations of the Pickering family of Salem, Mass., and of the descendants of John and Sarah (Burrill) Pickering, of the third generation . Having acquired a fortune, he retired from active business, devoting hisleisure to society and the enjoyment of cultivated tastes. In 1800, hebought the Summer Street estate, thenceforward his hospitable home. Thishouse, built by Leonard Vassall, was a fine specimen of Colonial excellent photograph of it is in possession of the family. To avoid the inconvenience of having the sa
The Pickering genealogy : being an account of the first three generations of the Pickering family of Salem, Mass., and of the descendants of John and Sarah (Burrill) Pickering, of the third generation . Having acquired a fortune, he retired from active business, devoting hisleisure to society and the enjoyment of cultivated tastes. In 1800, hebought the Summer Street estate, thenceforward his hospitable home. Thishouse, built by Leonard Vassall, was a fine specimen of Colonial excellent photograph of it is in possession of the family. To avoid the inconvenience of having the same name as that of twoother persons then in Boston, he had his name changed from SamuelGardner to Samuel Pickering Gardner, by an Act of the General Court ofMassachusetts, passed the fifteenth of February, 1796.^ > Obituary in the Boston Daily Advertiser, Friday, Dec. 22, 1S43; Xew England His-torical and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXV. pp. 48, 50; and the Gardner Family Records SAMUEL PICKRRIXG GARDNER. [53. VI. .] From thk Portrait by Stuart, .now in the possession ofM153 Low ell. of Boston. ?-^ - : - :i I *-?-?--??-?? ?»; .??, ,VJlM:.^^..t„. REBECCA RUSSELL (LOWELL) GARDNER. [53. VI. 101]From the Portrait by Gilbert Stuart, painted Nijvfmber, iSio, IN THE possession OF JOHN LoWELL GARDNER, ESQ., OK BoSTON. SIXTH GEXERATIOX. 251 There is an excellent portrait of ^Ir. Gardner, painted by Stuart, nowin the possession of his granddaughter. Miss Georgina Lowell. It is herereproduced. 53. VI. 101. Rebecca JRiissell LoiveU, the wife of Samuel P. Gardner,born in Boston, died in Boston. Jlrs. Gardner inherited from her father, Judge Lowell, not a little ofthat strong sense and energy which have rendered the name of Lowell dis-tinguished in so many tields of intellectual and material enterprise. Noone ever enjoyed the privilege of her society without being impressed byher vivid intelligence and ardent enthusiasm. But the moral element ofher charact
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