Essex County, Massachusetts was created on May 10, 1643 by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when it ordered "that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires."
Samuel Pickering was baptized on August 3, 1684 in Salem, Essex County Massachusetts.
They lived in Solebury, Bucks County Pennsylvania between the upper and lower York roads, two miles east of Lahaska.
John and Mary's children probably included:
Mercy Pickering (1713),
John Pickering (1715, married Hannah Dawes),
Isaac Pickering (1716, married Sarah Lupton), Samuel Pickering (1718, married Grace Stackhouse),
Grace Pickering (1722, married William Lupton),
and
William Pickering
(1727, married Sarah Wright).
Mary died on May 25, 1760. Frederick County, Virginia.
First printed in Boston 1745
The Society of Friends (Quakers) began in England in the 1650s, when they broke away from the Puritans. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, as a safe place for Friends to live and practice their faith.
