Samuel Pickering, II

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Samuel Pickering II
BIRTH
20 Jan 1718
Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH
1798 (aged 79–80)
Virginia, USA
will dated May 30, 1798

unspecified event - presumably either death or probate - occurred September 1, 1800

Date and place of death have also been erroneously reported to be:

• 1783 in Frederick County, Virginia
• 1798 in Virginia

links

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GEDCOM Note

(Research):«b»Samuel Pickering, Jr. «/b»1684 1727 , Pennsylvania & Virginia «b»Samuel Pickering, Jr.«/b» (Samuel, Sr., Jonathan, John) born January 20, 1720(1718?) in Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; died 1795 in Frederick County, Virginia; married October 30, 1747 in Bucks County to Grace Stackhouse who was born July 27, 1720 in Richland, Buck County, Pennsylvania the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah (Gilbert) Stackhouse and died 1783 in Frederick County, Virginia. It might be noted that Mrs. Ruth Marshall Strong, who is responsible for much of this early work on the Pickerings, has data that suggests Samuel Jr. was born 1718 and that Grace died 1777 in Bucks County and that her parents were John and Elizabeth (Pearson) Stackhouse. Samuel and Grace were born in the first Quaker settlement in the state of Pennsylvania. It was just north of Philadelphia across the Delaware River out of New Jersey. The Quakers began the settlement in 1682-84 and built their first church meeting house called New Hope. The area is now Bucks County. Many of their generation of friends and relatives had gone into the valley of the Potomac and Shenandoah River as early as 1732. The French and Indian Wars came in 1757-65 and many of their relatives and friends went into Frederick County, Virginia which was a Quaker settlement begun by Alexander Ross and others by a large land grant from the Governor of Virginia. A United States Government ordinance of 1787 was passed with no slavery north and west of the Ohio River. After 1800, many of these families were pioneering the frontiers of Ohio and Indiana. Samuel Jr. apparently remained in Bucks County for a time after his mother and step-father (Mary Scarborough Pickering and Joseph Lupton) moved to Virginia. Samuel Jr. is believed to have moved to Frederick County, Virginia sometime after the French and Indian War. They attended Hopewell Meeting House. Records of this family are found in Hinshaw's Quaker Records. Samuel Jr. and Grace were the parents «b»Benjamin - Pickering«/b» born July 7, 1752 in Bucks Co, PA; died January 27, 1807 in New Hope, Greene Co, TN; married October 18, 1775 at Hopewell Meeting House, Frederick Co, VA to Rebecca Ellis the daughter of Enos and Elizabeth (Colson) Ellis.