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Title: 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
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ellery, Harrison, 1841- Bowditch, Charles P
Subjects: Pickering family Pickering, John, 1615-1657 Pickering, John, 1658-1722
Publisher: (Cambridge, Mass. : University Press, J. Wilson and Son)
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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d the house which Gov-ernor Wentworth built for his son. This house is still standing on thesoutheast corner of Gardner Street. Before 1800 he returned to Salem andengaged in commerce with Benjamin Hodges under the firm name ofNichols & Hodges. Their store was on Union AYharf, at that time theprincipal wharf in Salem, since the Derby and Crowninshield ^\Tiarves hadnot been built. Mr. Nichols, when he died, occupied the house whichadjoined the post-office on the south, on Washington Street. On April 27, 1798, Congress passed an act for the protection of com-merce, providing for the acceptance of twelve vessels of war to be built onthe credit of the United States. Subscriptions were raised for this purposein the principal cities, and among others in Salem, where it was voted tobuild a frigate of thirty-two guns. Captain Ichabod Nichols, who had sub- ICHABOD NICHOLS. (44. VI. 6:>) From the Portr.\it .now in the possession of John White Tre.\d-\vei.lNichols, Esq., of New York City.
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SIXTH GEXERATION. 229 scribed one tliousand dollars for the purpose, was a member of the com-mittee chosen to carry the vote into effect. A vessel was built andnaiuod the Essex.^ When he was about sixty years old, he bought large tracts of pastureland situated on both sides of the Salem and Boston turnpike. The landwas so rocky and sterile that some one called it the abomination of deso-lation, and yet, in the course of the twenty years or more that Mr. Nicholsowned it, he succeeded in making it a highly productive farm, yielding, ashe told a friend, six per cent on the iuvestment — three per cent in moneyand three per cent in health. This was probably true, for, although not arobust man, he lived to be ninety years old. Mr. Nichols was below themedium height, and was so active that he bent forward in order to make asrapid and long strides as possible, using for that purpose a cane longer thanwould have otherwise been needed.^ An obituary in the Salem Gazetteof Friday, July 5, 1839,

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