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John Pickering
b.1704
d.1768
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Name[1] John Pickering
Gender Male
Birth? 1704
Marriage to Dorcas _____
Marriage 17 Oct 1748 Tortola, British Virgin Islands[2nd wife]
to Rebecca Zeagers
Death? 1768

Notes

  • From 1741-Jun 1742 - Lt Gov of Tortola
References
  1. Birth, Marriages, and Deaths from the Minutes and Records of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Tortola, in Jenkins, Charles F. (Charles Francis). Tortola : a Quaker experiment of long ago in the tropics. (London: Friends Bookshop, 1923)
    75.

    Pickering, John, and Dorcas.
    Children :
    Dorcas, b. April 18th, 1742, d. November 11th, 1742.
    Zacharia, b. September 5th, 1743, d. February 12th, 1747.
    ...
    John Pickering, married, second, "Seventeenth day of Eighth Month, called October, 1748," Rebecca Zeagers, Junr., daughter of Absalom and Rebecca Zeagers, of the Island of Tortola.
    Children :
    Dorcas, b. Fifth Month 28th, 1749, d. Sixth Month 14th, 1751, and "buried beside her brother, Zacharias, on the right hand."
    Rebecca, b. Twelfth Month 15th, 1753.
    Isaac, b. Eleventh Month 27th, 1755.
    Josiah, b. 1759.