Elizabeth Deacon

Elizabeth married about 1636, John Pickering, they had four known children; John, Jonathan, Elizabeth, and Elizabeth (again). John and Jonathan survived to marry.

Elizabeth Pikering and John Deacon married in Lynn, Massachusetts 25 : 10m : 1657. (25 Dec 1657)

Eliza[beth] Deacon, w. John, died 30:6 m:1661 (30 Aug 1661), in Salem {CT. R.}

John Deacon married (2) in Lynn MA, 25 Dec 1657, Elizabeth (____) Pickering, widow of John Pickering of Salem. She died at Salem, 30 Aug 1661.

No recorded children of this marriage

Origins

If she married 1636 she was born about 1615. That makes is impossible for her to have been a daughter of Jane Alderman born about 1611.

John Alderman (1584 - 1657) migrated on the Recovery, 1634. His wife was Jane, possibly Jane Clapp, who predeceased him. No recorded children. Elizabeth Pickering and her children, John and Jonathan, were legatees in John’s 1657 will, along with Clapps, but she was not named as his daughter.

“John Alderman of Salem bequeathed to Elizabeth Pickering, by his will of July 3, 1657, 2 "one greene cloth suite," and he also made bequests to her sons John and Jonathan. "Whether John Alderman was their relation, or only a friend, we are unable to say ; but we are inclined to think that a relationship existed between them."

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It seems that John married a woman named Elizabeth Alderman ( as per her fathers will). John and Elizabeth had two boys John and Jonathan who are listed in a will of 1657, who are not yet 21 (born in 1637 or after). And, this John Pickering born 1637+ married Alice (Flint)) and had the following listed in his will: sons John, Benjamin, and William and a daughter named Elizabeth, plus two grandchildren John and Hannah Boltolph.

Elhabeth the wife of John Pickering, probably died in Salem.

We have not been able to ascertain the full maiden name of John Pickering's wife, neither have we found the full date of their marriage, nor where it took place. The Bible of their grandson, John Pickering, according to the memorandum-book of Colonel Timothy Pickering, says that they were married in 1663 ; and if this is the case, we suppose it must have taken place in this country. Of their children, but four are known to us: John, and Jonathan, and two named Elizabeth. The daughters must have died young; for only two children, John and Jonathan, are named in John Pickering's will. The married life of John and Elizabeth Pickering Lasted about twenty years; and it is highly probalde that there were other children, who died young, for this would be an unusually small family for that period.

We do not know whether John Pickering was a church-member or not ; and from the fact that we do not find that he took the freeman's
oath, or that he ever held public office, we infer that he was not. His wife Elizabeth, however, joined the Salem church, for she with others
"renewed ye covenant." On the Church Records her name appears following the date "5:3: 1639," in a catalogue of those persons who were joined in full communion.

She is undoubtedly the Elizabeth Pickering to whom John Alderman of Salem bequeathed by his will of July 3, 1637,- "one greene cloth suite," and he also made bequests to her sons John and Jonathan. Whether John Alderman was their relation, or only a friend, we are unable to say; but we are inclined to think that a relationship existed between them. Of John Alderman, Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary of New England, says, that he lived in Dorchester, in 1634, but had moved to Salem in 1636, when Jane Alderman, probably his wife, was a member of the church. He had a grant of land in Salem in 1637, was made a freeman. May 22, 1639, and died in 1657. Elizabeth survived her husband John Pickering, and on Dec. 25, 1657, married John Deacon of Lynn. He removed to Salem, and built a house near that of her former husband, on land belonging to the Pickering estate. To this new dwelling she removed, leaving the old house in possession of her son John Pickering, who had married the same year. Savage gives the following account of her second husband: "John Deacon, Lynn, came in the Abigail, 1635, aged 25, with w. Alice, 30, who d. 27 July 1657, was a blacksmith; m. 25 Dec. 1657, Elizabeth, widow of John Pickering, rem. to Boston, was of Mather's church in 1660." The History of Lynn" states that he was the first blacksmith in Lynn, and that, in 1638, he had twenty acres of land allotted to him.

From the following abstract of a conveyance, he appears to have taken a third wife: John Deacon of Boston, blacksmith, for a valuable consideration sells to John Pickering, yeoman, of Salem a piece of salt marsh in Lynn, called Thorn's neck of about two acres, April 5, 1670, signed Jno Deacon.

"25 (8) 1650. John Pickering of Salem did constitute Mr. Thomas Potter of Childsmore his Attorney for him & in his name & to his use to enter & take possession of a certaine house neere the Newgate in Coventry & the same to possesse & enjoy for the use of the said John Pickering (being his pper possession) untill further order taken thereabout. Giveing him power to coinence and psecut any action at law against any that shall hinder or interrupt him in the possession of the said house. Dat. 25 (8) 1650."

From "The Pickering Genealogy"

References

• Ellery, Harrison and Charles Pickering Bowditch. 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, Volume 1 (Google eBook). University Press, J. Wilson and Son, 1897. GoogleBooks
• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. Vol. I-IV. Boston, MA, USA: 1860-1862. GoogleBooks
• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Lynn, Volume: Lynn - V2, Page(s): 304 Accessed at American Ancestors
• Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850 Salem - V5, Page(s): 198. Accessed at American Ancestors
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37679830/elizabeth-pickering_de...