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 . uperbly built. Plis face, as is shown by his admirable portrait,presents a rare combination of intelligence, of manliness, and of dignity.^ On June 22, 1828, Colonel Baldwin married as a second wife , widow of Captain Thomas Beckford, of Charlestown. She diedMay 3, 18G4, aged 77 years. Colonel Baldwins portrait was painted in early life by Leslie. Wash-ington Allston made a sketch
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 . uperbly built. Plis face, as is shown by his admirable portrait,presents a rare combination of intelligence, of manliness, and of dignity.^ On June 22, 1828, Colonel Baldwin married as a second wife , widow of Captain Thomas Beckford, of Charlestown. She diedMay 3, 18G4, aged 77 years. Colonel Baldwins portrait was painted in early life by Leslie. Wash-ington Allston made a sketch of him, and Powers a The portraitwhich we have had reproduced was painted by Chester Harding. It is inthe possession of his niece, Jlrs. Catherine R. Griffith, of Rumford House,Mt. Pleasant, Quebec, Canada, and hangs in the old family mansion of the Obituaries in Salem Gazette of July 3, 1838, and in the Boston Daily Advertiser ofJuly 2 and July 3, 1838; and A Sketch of the Life and Works of Loammi Baldwin, CivilEngineer, by George L. Yose. NS \ CHARLES WILLIAMS. [5--. VI. 9S.] From the Portrait by Leslie, pain fed in 1817, sow in the possessionOF THE Misses Whitney, of Cambriiii;e. SAMUEL BLANCHARI). [53- VI. ;«.]THE Portrait ev , painted in- Caniox, China, in 1790, n^ THE POSSESSION OF ROBERT ClIARLES WiNTHROP, ESQ, OF BoSTON. SIXTH GENERATIOX. 249 Baldwins, in North Woburu. Tliis house is a fine specimen of Colonialarchitecture. Colonel Baldwin was a son of Loammi and Mary (Fowle) Baldwin,llis father was a distinguished citizen of Woburn, and served in the Revo-hitionary War as the colonel of a regiment. He was much interested intlie cultivation of fruit, and to him we are indebted for the Mell-knownBaldwin apple, ^vhich he perfected and brought into use. His ancestryincludes the following families: Baldwin, Ricluuxlson, Fisk, Wilson, Rich-ardson, Green, Blodgett, Iggleden, Fowle. See Ancestry Tables ^^. 52. VI. 98. Charles Williams [Lydia 51-52. V. 19]
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