History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . studied law with Theophilus Par-sons at Newberyport, and settled permanently atSalem. He was at various times Representative andSenator in the State Legislature, a member of theConstitutional Convention of 1820, a member of theExecutive Council, and from 1809 to 1811 a member ofthe national House of Representatives. He died atSalem August 16,1843. Timothy Pickering was born in Salem July 17,1745, and was admitted to the bar in 1768. He was agraduate of Harvard in 1763, and received a
History of Essex County, Massachusetts : with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men . studied law with Theophilus Par-sons at Newberyport, and settled permanently atSalem. He was at various times Representative andSenator in the State Legislature, a member of theConstitutional Convention of 1820, a member of theExecutive Council, and from 1809 to 1811 a member ofthe national House of Representatives. He died atSalem August 16,1843. Timothy Pickering was born in Salem July 17,1745, and was admitted to the bar in 1768. He was agraduate of Harvard in 1763, and received a degreefrom New Jersey College in 1798. He commanded aregiment in the Revolution, was adjutant-general ofthe army in 1777, and was quartermaster-general in1780. After the war he settled in Pennsylvania, andbetween 1791 and 1800 was Postmaster-General, Sec-retary of War and Secretary of State. He returnedto Salem in 1801, was chief justice of the EssexCounty Court of Common Pleas, United States Sen-ator from 1803 to 1811, and a Representative in Con-gress from 1815 to 1817. He died in Salem January29,
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