. Historic homes of New England . n to serveoil the Board, whose poWerS and duties were manyand important. He was made Quartermaster-geheral of the Army, also, holding this positionMtil its abolishment, July 25, 1785. He was ahiemlier of the committee which wrote the fare-well address delivered to Washington, November15, 1783. With the close of the war. Coloneli^ckering withdrew from! public life to devotehimself to agriculture. He settled in Philadelphia,but his private life was of short duration, as hisservices were needed for the adjustment ofdaims made by Wyoming settlers. He had athrillin
. Historic homes of New England . n to serveoil the Board, whose poWerS and duties were manyand important. He was made Quartermaster-geheral of the Army, also, holding this positionMtil its abolishment, July 25, 1785. He was ahiemlier of the committee which wrote the fare-well address delivered to Washington, November15, 1783. With the close of the war. Coloneli^ckering withdrew from! public life to devotehimself to agriculture. He settled in Philadelphia,but his private life was of short duration, as hisservices were needed for the adjustment ofdaims made by Wyoming settlers. He had athrilling experience in the West, being capturedby a band of masked men who carried him off andSubjected him to horribfe Colonel Pickering was a most charming host andthough appariently stern and forbidding, delightfulin the midst of his family. He retained his in-herited fondness for a;griculture, iat seventy-fivestill filling the position of President of the Agricul-tiiral Societies of Essex County and bearing off the •[34].
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