Essex County, Massachusetts was created on May 10, 1643 by the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, when it ordered "that the whole plantation within this jurisdiction be divided into four sheires."
Mary Scarborough Pickering Lupton was born on October 9, 1695. She was the daughter of John Scarborough and Mary Pierson.
She married Samuel Pickering in 1712. Samuel was baptized on August 3, 1684 in Salem, Essex County Massachusetts.
They lived in Solebury, between the upper and lower York roads, two miles east of Lahaska.
John and Mary's children probably included:
Mercy Pickering (September 19, 1713),
John Pickering (April 22, 1715, married 1745, Hannah Dawes),
Isaac Pickering (December 23, 1716, married Sarah Lupton), Samuel Pickering (January 20, 1718, married Grace Stackhouse),
Grace Pickering (August 8, 1722, married William Lupton)
Mary died on May 25, 1760. Frederick County, Virginia.
First printed in Boston 1745
Bucks County, Pennsylvania is one of three original Pennsylvania Counties and was formed in 1682. Originally it was a large territory that included all of what would later be Berks, Northampton, and Lehigh.
from Ancestors and Descendants of Joel and Sarah (McKee) Haworth compiled
by Louise Baker, Virginia Schneider and Aletha Thomas.
Mary Scarborough, dau of John Scarbrough and Mary Pierson, born 8
Oct 1695, md/1 Samuel Pickering 1712,md/2 Joseph Lupton Sr 1730.
from Historical Collections Relating to Gwynedd: A Township of Montgomery County, by Howard Malcolm Jenkins
[Joseph Lupton married] Mary Pickering (b. Scarborough, widow Samuel, who came from England), and after this second marriage removed to Virginia. William, Samuel, and Grace Pickering, Mary's children, also removed there.
Grace Pickering m. in Virginia William Lupton, and lived in Frederick Co., in 1787, and their son Asa [or Asahel?], b. 1757, m. 1787, Hannah Hank, dau. of John, of Rockingham Co., Va., of the same family, probably, as President Lincoln's mother and the Hanks mentioned in the Evans Genealogy, in this volume.
from Settlers by the Long Grey Trail by John Houston Harrison
Samuel Pickering was an early settler in the old Quaker community, near Winchester. He was a native of Bucks County, Pennslvania, whre he married, before his removal to Virginia, Grace Stackhouse...Samuel was a son of Samuel Pickering, Sr., who about 1700 emigrated from Bristol England to Pennsylvania and settled in Bucks County. His wife was Mary Scarborough...
