Timothy Pickering

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In 1799 Fort Pickering in Salem, Massachusetts was named for him. [17]

In 1942, a United States Liberty ship named the SS Timothy Pickering was launched. She was lost off Sicily in 1943.

Until the 1990s, Pickering's ancestral home, the circa 1651 Pickering House, was the oldest house in the United States to be owned by the same family continually.

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  3. Mary Pickering, sister of Timothy, was married to Salem Congregational minister Dudley Leavitt, for whom Salem's Leavitt Street is named. A Harvard-educated native of Stratham, New Hampshire, Leavitt died an untimely death in 1762 at age 42. Mary Pickering Leavitt remarried Nathaniel Peaselee Sargeant of Haverhill, Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. Mary Pickering's daughter Elizabeth Pickering Leavitt married Salem merchant William Pickman.
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Timothy Pickering
TimothyPickering.jpg
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1792
3rd United States Secretary of State
In office
December 10, 1795 May 12, 1800
Ad interim: August 20 – December 10, 1795
Military offices
Preceded by Adjutant Generals of the Army
1777–1778
Succeeded by
Political offices
Preceded by United States Postmaster General
1791–1795
Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Secretary of War
1795
Succeeded by
Preceded by United States Secretary of State
1795–1800
Succeeded by
U.S. Senate
Preceded by U.S. Senator (Class 2) from Massachusetts
1803–1811
Served alongside: John Quincy Adams, James Lloyd
Succeeded by
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district

1813–1815
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district

1815–1817
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