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. in Three Volumes

Cambridge: Privately Printed / University Press: John Wilson and Son, 1897. Limited Edition. Large Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited edition, one of 100 sets. Additional information handwritten on several laid in sheets. Front hinge of volume 1 and both hinges of volume 3 weakening, faint stain to fore edge of volume three front endpaper, pencil scribbles on a few pages. 1897 Large Hardcover. Complete in three volumes. xvi, 1284 pp., paginated continuously. A genealogy of the Pickering family, one of the founding families of Salem, Massachusetts, with portraits, facsimiles of original documents, and folding genealogical tables. The Pickering house, built in 1660, was until 1998 the oldest house in the United States occupied continuously by a single family. Notable members of the family included Timothy Pickering, who fought in the Revolutionary War and served as Secretary of State, Postmaster General, and Secretary of War thereafter (the only person in U.S. history to hold three cabinet positions). The town of Salem was an important port town during the colonial period of American history, the site of the infamous witch trials of 1692, and retains an unusual amount of historically interesting sites such as The House of Seven Gables and the Peabody Essex Museum.