til £ % » ft'J^. • » in s L»^ • ea K • • 'ssvh *Marivs xv asnoH ONraasDid hhx THE PICKERING GENEALOGY: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF THE fixxt Ct>ro Generations OF THE PICKERING FAMILY OF SALEM, MASS., AND OF THE DESCENDANTS OP JOHN AND SARAH (BURRILL) PICKERING, OF THE THIRD GENERATION. BY HARRISON ELLERY \\ AND CHARLES PICKERING BOWDITCH. Vol. I. Pages 1-287. PRIVATELY PRINTED. 1897. C-flUy^^ TWO COPIES REGf?f?3 Copyright, 1897, Bt Chaeles P. Bowditch. ONE HUNDEBD COPIES PEINTED. Univbbbitt Press : Jomr WiuoH and Son, Cambridge, U.S. A. PREFACE. 1887 Ipublished, under the title of "The Pickering Genealogy, IN comprising the descendants of John and Sarah (Burrill)Pickering, of Salem," seventy sheets which contained the names and dates of the Sarah birth, death, and marriage of the descendants of John and Pickering, and of their husbands and wives, as far as they had been ascertained. Istated in the preface of the index to that publication— that the general plan of "The Pickering Genealogy" was: volume is First. To print in the form of sheets (I*6 those to wbich this of the first JOHN an index) as complete a list as possible of the descendants female as fully PICKERING, who came to Salem about 1636, tracing out the as the male descent. on sheets, and giving, Second. To issue a book, referring to the names the names are there recorded, as far as practicable, sketches of the individuals whose families, length of life, birth of with statistical information as to the size of generations. twins, preponderance of male or female children, etc., in the different additional sheets, the Third. To trace, either in the above book or on of John ancestry of the men and women who have married descendants Pickering. carry The scope of this plan was so large that Ihave been unable to fourth and succeeding it out in full, and Ihave limited the work in the although a generations to the descendants of the third John Pickering, the of the great deal of information has been obtained about descendants Jonathan. other children of the second John Pickering and of his brother known about At the time that the sheets were printed, nothing was 32] and of Lois the descendants of Nathaniel Gardner Dabney [5. VII. VI PREFACE. Pickering [66. VI.134]. Since then Ihave obtained information about these descendants, which is printed on the new sheets, 5, s*, sb,5b,s°, sd,5 d, 66, 66% and 66h. Additional information relating to the names on the original seventy sheets is printed on the three sheets of Additions and Errata. In attempting to carry out the plan set forth in the second para­ graph above referred to, the present volumes have been printed. They contain, as far as practicable, sketches of the individuals whose names are recorded on the sheets; while statistical information as to the size of families, length of life, etc., willbe found at the end of the third volume. The plan as set forth in the third paragraph has been carried out in manuscript, but it seems very doubtful whether it will be possible to print the ancestry sheets of the men and women who have married into the Pickering family, although Inow have in manuscript nearly a thousand pedigrees of these persons. The sketches given in these volumes are, in many cases, very short, which is, in a great measure, owing to the unwillingness of some fami­ lies to give the information which has been asked for. In other cases, the sketches seem to be mere eulogies, which is owing to the fact that obituary notices taken from newspapers are very apt to extol the vir­ tues and to keep silent about the peculiarities of deceased citizens. Through the seventh generation authorities have usually been given in the notes, where the sketch is an extended one, but additions have often been made from family letters, for which it has been thought unnecessary to give the authorities. Through this generation also any discrepancies in the dates of birth, death, and marriage, as given by different authorities, have been stated in the notes at the foot of the page, but in the generations after the seventh, it has not been thought necessary to mark these discrepancies with so great care. Through the seventh generation every name which appears on the sheets is given in the text, except of those persons who died at an early age; but after the seventh generation the names of persons have been omitted about whom nothing more was known than merely their PREFACE. VII birth, death, occupation, or residence. In carrying out this plan, I have not attempted to give sketches of any one beyond the tenth generation. Ihave endeavored to obtain heliotypes of as many of the portraits of the men and women of the earlier generations as possible, and in this endeavor Ihave been very much assisted by the owners of these portraits, with a single exception. Ihave also included more than twenty heliotypes of the houses which have been occupied by various members of the family. Among the material collected is a large amount of data related to the allied families of the earlier generations, notably those of Bun-ill, Hardy, Ingersoll, Gardner, Pickman, Cabot, Jackson, Lowell, etc. It was my intention to print pedigrees of a number of these families in this work, and many had been partially prepared for this purpose, but, owing to Mr. Ellery's illness, only two of these were completed, and these, relating to the Burrill and Orne families, willbe found in their proper places. In the sketches which —are given in the work, figures —which appear against the proper names as, for instance, 5. VI. 2 refer to the sheet, generation, and the individual, respectively. The names and numbers in brackets which follow the name of the individual refer to his or her parent on the Pickering side. Then follow the place of birth and death, and the occupation and residence, as far as known, — the residence and occupation given referring to the last residence and the usual occupation. The word "probably" is often used in connec­ tion with the place of birth or death, where no exact information on this point was found, but where there was very little doubt on the subject. It has often been difficult to decide upon the form of spelling which belongs to both the Christian name and the surname. For instance, Lowell appears to have formerly been spelled Lowle; Raymond was formerly spelled Rayment; Orne, Home, etc. As a rule, the modern spelling- has been adhered to. In some cases, an unusual spelling has been accepted on the authority of the family. VIII PREFACE. The term "Ancestry Tables/ as used in the text, refers to the manuscript ancestry sheets in my possession. Where these words are preceded by the word "See," tables of more or less extent exist, but where the words "Ancestry Tables" are used by themselves, it merely shows that a number is reserved for the ancestry of the individual after whose name these words occur. In tracing back the ancestry of those who have married into the family, Ihave gone back only to the first immigrant, and have not included in the lists the names of those who lived or died on the other side of the ocean. The names which follow in the text after the words "His (or her) ancestry includes the following families," refer to the stocks of the individual as far as Ihave been able to ascertain them. An index of names has been added to the third volume, containing an alphabetical list of all persons whose names appear in the following pages; and an index of families is also appended, containing an alpha­ betical list of the family stocks from which the consorts of the mem­ bers of the Pickering family have drawn their birth, and thus showing the common ancestry of these consorts. Ihave not thought it wise to increase the size of these volumes by adding an index of places. The statistical tables at the end of the third volume explain them­ selves. These tables were compiled several months ago, and, therefore, do not include all the names which have been collected while the volumes were passing through the press. In the collection of material for this work, in preparing it for the press, and in the tabulation of the Ancestry Tables, Mr. Harrison Ellery has devoted nearly ten years of his life. He has travelled over most of the New England States; has examined state, county, town, and church archives ; has transcribed many inscriptions from grave­ stones; has consulted very many town histories, works on family genealogies, and files of newspapers; has visited many families, and has conducted a wide correspondence. To him, therefore, belongs, to a very large extent, the credit, as well as the responsibility, of this work. And it is a very great sorrow to me that, owing to an acute attack of a disease of his eyes, Mr. Ellery was unable to finish his PREFACE. IX work. Imust; therefore, ask the indulgence of my readers for what­ ever imperfections may be found in the last one hundred and fifty pages of the text, which have passed through the press under my care. In preparing the Ancestry Tables and the sketches contained in these volumes, Ihave received most valuable assistance from members of the family, and from others who have taken an interest in the work. Among those to whom Iam especially indebted are Francis H. Lee, Esq., Greorge R.