Timothy Pickering

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Letters and Correspondence, Primary Sources, The War Years (1775-1783) May 9, 2019 May 9, 2019

Eyewitness to the British Retreat from Lexington: The Timothy Pickering Letter

by Samuel K. Fore

A newly appointed colonel in the Essex County militia, Timothy Pickering led some 700 men of the Salem and Essex militia toward Boston, Massachusetts,…

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