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.
Benjamin Pickering was born in 1752 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Samuel Pickering, Jr. and Grace Stackhouse.
Samuel Pickering (1776, married Susannah Eleanor Ellis and Nancy Jane Hunter Montieth),
Elizabeth Pickering (1778, died young)
Ellis Pickering (1780, married Deborah Jones),
Thomas Pickering (1781, married Magey Pott)
Enos Pickering (1782, married Elizabeth Harrold),
Rebecca Pickering (1785, married Henry Neal),
Mary Pickering (1787, married Benjamin R. Johnson),
Benjamin Pickering (1789, married Hester McCool )
Elizabeth Pickering (1791, married William Johnson),
Jonathan Pickering (1793, married Nancy Ennis), and
John Pickering (1795)
In 1784 they moved to North Carolina.
On August 2, 1784, the Pickerings were received on certificate from Crooked Run Meeting dating July 31, 1784 at Hopewell.
On May 6, 1793, Benjamin and wife Rebekah, with children Samuel, Ellis, Enos, Rebekah, Mary, Benjamin, and Elizabeth got a certificate to Westfield Monthly Meeting in Surry County, North Carolina.
In 1804, they were living in Rheatown, Greene County, Tennessee and Members of New Hope Meeting.
The Society of Friends (Quakers) began in England in the 1650s, when they broke away from the Puritans. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, as a safe place for Friends to live and practice their faith.
