Puritan Politicians
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Puritan Politicians
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Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) —
of Salem, Essex
County, Mass.; Luzerne
County, Pa.; Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.
Born in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., July 17,
1745.
Son of Timothy Pickering and Mary (Wingate) Pickering; married, April 8,
1776, to Rebecca White (1754-1828); second great-grandfather of
Augustus
Peabody Gardner; ancestor of Susan
Walker FitzGerald; fourth great-grandfather of William
Amory Gardner Minot.
Farmer;
Essex
County Register of Deeds, 1774-77; common pleas court judge in
Massachusetts, 1775, 1802-03; member of Massachusetts state
legislature, 1776; colonel in the Continental Army during the
Revolutionary War; delegate to
Pennsylvania state constitutional convention, 1789; U.S.
Postmaster General, 1791-95; U.S.
Secretary of War, 1795; U.S.
Secretary of State, 1795-1800; U.S.
Senator from Massachusetts, 1803-11; U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 2nd
District 1815-17); member of Massachusetts
Governor's Council, 1817-18.
Puritan; later Unitarian.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
Censured
by the Senate in 1811 for violating an injunction
of secrecy.
Died in Salem, Essex
County, Mass., January
29, 1829 (age 83 years, 196
days).
Interment at Broad
Street Cemetery, Salem, Mass.
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Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724) —
of New London, New London
County, Conn.
Born in Haverhill, Essex
County, Mass., April
7, 1666.
Son of Nathaniel Saltonstall and Elizabeth (Ward) Saltonstall;
married to Jerusha Richards, Elizabeth Rosewell and Mary Whittingham.
Ordained
minister; Colonial
Governor of Connecticut, 1708-24.
Puritan.
Died in New London, New London
County, Conn., October
1, 1724 (age 58 years, 177
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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