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State of Service: NH
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Author: Barrett L McKown
He was born 28 December 1718 in Newington, NH and Died 1790, Newington, NH. His Will was dated 4 January 1790, proved 17 March 1790. His parents were James Pickering (1680-1768), married 16 January 1718 also to a Mary Nutter the daughter of Henry and Mary Shackford Nutter. He is probably buried in “Point of Graves Cemetery” in Newington, NH. He married 28 August 1740, Newington, NH, to Mary Nutter (1715 in Newington, NH-died 16 January 1811, at age 96), daughter of John and Rosamund Johnson Nutter. They had 9 children: Valentine, William P., Stephen, James, John, Temperance Hodgdon, Sarah Tasker, Polly, Abigail Huntress. The original John Pickering, born in England about 1590 in came to the Portsmouth, NH area from Massachusetts ca 1635. The settlement along the Piscataqua River was known as “Strawberry Bank.” The Pickerings were prominent in both church and local affairs giving 50 acres to the church and providing land for the “Point of Graves Cemetery.” John Pickering the patriot is the great-grandson of the immigrant. Newington is just west of Portsmouth and is the location of the Pease Air Force Base. John Pickering was a Signer of the Association Test in New Hampshire referenced in the Documents and Records Relating to the State of New Hampshire, 1776-1783, State Papers, Vol. 8, p. 256
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