Excerpt from Life of John Pickering Few facts connected with his private history remain to us. In 1651 he built the Pickering mansion, which is now standing in Salem (no. 18 Broad Street), and which has been in the possession of his descendants to the present time. A deed from' Emanuel Downing (father of Sir George Downing, of London) to the same John Pickering, dated in 1642, conveys to him a part of the estate in Salem which descended in the Picker ing family, and of which a large portion has been laid out in streets and ...
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Excerpt from Life of John Pickering Few facts connected with his private history remain to us. In 1651 he built the Pickering mansion, which is now standing in Salem (no. 18 Broad Street), and which has been in the possession of his descendants to the present time. A deed from' Emanuel Downing (father of Sir George Downing, of London) to the same John Pickering, dated in 1642, conveys to him a part of the estate in Salem which descended in the Picker ing family, and of which a large portion has been laid out in streets and sold in house-lots within the two centuries since elapsed. The original deed, signed by Emanuel Downing and Lucie his wife, is carefully preserved in the family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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