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- GLC#
- GLC02325
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- February 23, 1778
- Author/Creator
- Pickering, Timothy, 1745-1829
- Title
- to Timothy Pickering, Sr.
- Place Written
- Yorktown, Virginia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 25 cm, Width: 19 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Colonel Pickering writes a poignant letter to his loyalist father, Deacon Pickering, who he recently learned was gravely ill. Expresses happiness over an improvement in his father's health and regret over their political differences. Thanks his father for his "example & instructions in all the duties to God, and my neighbor." Also states that "altho' the line of action I have pursued has not always been such as you would have chosen...in regard to religion and morality, I hope you have never repented that I was your son." The "prospect for recovery" mentioned was not realized; Deacon Pickering died a few months later.
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