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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>The Political Graveyard: Puritan Politicians</title> <meta name="description" content="A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 338,260 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present."> <meta name="keywords" content="political biography history genealogy cemeteries politics candidates congress senators legislators governors politicians biographies ancestors mayors birthplace geography elections"> <meta name="author" content="Lawrence Kestenbaum"> <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-7383562-1']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Co-founder and first Governor of New Haven Colony, 1639-58. Puritan. Died in New Haven, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-died.html">New Haven County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-01-17.html">January 17</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1658.html">1658</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/67.html">about 67 years</a>). Original interment and cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-buried.html# ">New Haven Green</a>, New Haven, Conn.; reinterment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-buried.html#cms00467">Grove Street Cemetery</a>, New Haven, Conn.; cenotaph at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NH-buried.html# ">Montowese Cemetery</a>, North Haven, Conn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Richard Eaton and Elizabeth (Sheapheard) Eaton; married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1629.html">1629</a> to Ann (Lloyd) Yale; fifth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelm-kemmer.html#385.91.48">David Parmalee Kelsey</a>; sixth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hillings-hinerman.html#967.66.44">Walter Samuel Hine</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parler-parshall.html#242.32.78">Arthur Eugene Parmelee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parler-parshall.html#156.54.33">Lovel Davis Parmelee</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#349.19.19">Frank Clark Woodruff</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/woodnutt-woodrum.html#751.25.79">Watson Stiles Woodruff</a>; seventh great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kelm-kemmer.html#061.20.27">Layton Archer Kelsey</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/parler-parshall.html#577.41.03">Cleon Lorenzo Parmelee</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">The <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake-cities.html">town</a> of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NH/CA-names.html">Eaton, New Hampshire</a>, is <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/special/namesake.html">named for him</a>.</li> </td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Epitaph: "Eaton so fam'd so wise, so just, The Phoenix of our world, here lies his dust / This name forget, N. England never must."</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/184431455">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) — of Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-lived.html">Essex County</a>, Mass.; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/LU-lived.html">Luzerne County</a>, Pa.; Philadelphia, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/PH-lived.html">Philadelphia County</a>, Pa. Born in Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1745/07-17.html">July 17, 1745</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/farmer.html">Farmer</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-officials.html">Essex County Register of Deeds</a>, 1774-77; common pleas court judge in Massachusetts, 1775, 1802-03; member of Massachusetts state legislature, 1776; colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/cncn.html">delegate to Pennsylvania state constitutional convention</a>, 1789; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Postmaster General</a>, 1791-95; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of War</a>, 1795; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/offices/cabinet.html">U.S. Secretary of State</a>, 1795-1800; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/ussen.html">U.S. Senator from Massachusetts</a>, 1803-11; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/usrep.html">U.S. Representative from Massachusetts</a>, 1813-17 (at-large 1813-15, 2nd District 1815-17); member of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/gvcn.html">Massachusetts Governor's Council</a>, 1817-18. Puritan; later <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/unitarian.html">Unitarian</a>. Member, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/group/soc-cincinnati.html">Society of the Cincinnati</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/index.html">Censured</a> by the Senate in 1811 for violating an <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/trouble/spill-secrets.html">injunction of secrecy</a>. Died in Salem, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-died.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1829/01-29.html">January 29, 1829</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/83.html">83 years, 196 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-buried.html#cms02210">Broad Street Cemetery</a>, Salem, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Timothy Pickering (1703-1778) and Mary (Wingate) Pickering; married, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1776/04-08.html">April 8, 1776</a>, to Rebecca White; granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/pickford-pieras.html#864.14.16">Dudley Leavitt Pickman</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coolidge.html#141.99.20">John Gardner Coolidge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gardner.html#971.08.56">Augustus Peabody Gardner</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#797.28.81">John Lee Saltonstall</a>; fourth great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#037.90.62">Leverett Saltonstall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#428.87.28">Richard Saltonstall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#523.37.63">William Gurdon Saltonstall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#704.60.35">John Lee Saltonstall Jr.</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/minore-mitchel.html#401.01.53">William Amory Gardner Minot</a>; fifth great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/traxler-treichler.html#658.98.75">Marietta Peabody Tree</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/payson-pealy.html#913.34.82">Endicott Peabody</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#818.86.92">William Lawrence Saltonstall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#928.28.53">John Forbes Kerry</a>; ancestor *** of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#499.42.76">Susan Walker FitzGerald</a>; first cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/goodell-goodrell.html#798.33.29">Benjamin Goodhue</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weeks.html#910.30.41">John Wingate Weeks (1781-1853)</a>; first cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weeks.html#098.67.90">John Wingate Weeks (1860-1926)</a>; first cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/weeks.html#224.33.09">Charles Sinclair Weeks</a>; second cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/andochick-andrew.html#967.44.14">John Albion Andrew</a>; second cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewison-lifshitz.html#202.49.76">Isaac Libbey</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/andochick-andrew.html#292.01.47">John Forrester Andrew</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/andochick-andrew.html#145.70.36">Henry Hersey Andrew</a>; second cousin four times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewison-lifshitz.html#797.69.31">Llewellyn Libby</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nason-nazaire.html#370.16.51">William F. Nason</a>; second cousin five times removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewison-lifshitz.html#388.81.02">Augustine B. Libby</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lewison-lifshitz.html#672.41.55">Albanah Harvey Libby</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hannaford-hanscom.html#309.40.68">Frederick Edwin Hanscom</a>; third cousin once removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/baczkowski-baile.html#924.72.11">Luther Walter Badger</a>; third cousin twice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/trump-tuck.html#621.27.90">Amos Tuck</a>; third cousin thrice removed of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hurn-hutchin.html#545.83.95">Hiram Augustus Huse (1840-1907)</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hurn-hutchin.html#868.25.59">Hiram Augustus Huse (1843-1902)</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1024.html">Andrew family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000324">congressional biography</a> — <a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=408722">Govtrack.us page</a> — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy Pickering">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://www.nndb.com/people/607/000168103">NNDB dossier</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/20978">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Books about Timothy Pickering: David McLean, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0405140983/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0405140983&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Timothy Pickering and the Age of the American Revolution</a> — Gerald H. Clarfield, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822934140/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0822934140&linkCode=as2&tag=thepoliticalg-20&linkID=7777aaaa7777bbbb7777cccc7777dddd">Timothy Pickering and the American Republic</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"><a href="https://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?2020548"><img src="https://politicalgraveyard.com/thumb/067/45.90.jpg" width=70 height=89 border=0 alt="Gurdon Saltonstall"></a></td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> Gurdon Saltonstall (1666-1724) — of New London, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-lived.html">New London County</a>, Conn. Born in Haverhill, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ES-born.html">Essex County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/born-04-07.html">April 7</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1666.html">1666</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/occ/clergy.html">Ordained minister</a>; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/ofc/colgov.html">Colonial Governor of Connecticut</a>, 1708-24. Puritan. Died in New London, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-died.html">New London County</a>, Conn., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1724/10-01.html">October 1, 1724</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/58.html">58 years, 177 days</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CT/NL-buried.html# ">Ancient Cemetery</a>, New London, Conn. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Saltonstall and Elizabeth (Ward) Saltonstall; married to Jerusha Richards, Elizabeth Rosewell and Mary Whittingham; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#676.30.34">Gurdon Saltonstall (1708-1785)</a>; grandfather of Elizabeth Saltonstall Evards (who married <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/deane-deboice.html#593.46.07">Silas Deane</a>); great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#776.61.94">Leverett Saltonstall (1783-1845)</a>; second great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#328.95.45">Leverett Saltonstall (1825-1895)</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#640.25.25">James Rodes Saltonstall</a>; third great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#797.28.81">John Lee Saltonstall</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#827.15.08">James Coats Auchincloss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#534.11.05">Gordon Auchincloss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; fourth great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#037.90.62">Leverett Saltonstall (1892-1979)</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#428.87.28">Richard Saltonstall</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#523.37.63">William Gurdon Saltonstall</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#704.60.35">John Lee Saltonstall Jr.</a>; fifth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>; fifth great-granduncle of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/salmons-salzman.html#818.86.92">William Lawrence Saltonstall</a>; seventh great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#824.74.27">Jacob Daniel Auchincloss</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political family: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1853.html">Saltonstall family</a> of Massachusetts (subset of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurdon Saltonstall">Wikipedia article</a> — <a href="https://findagrave.com/memorial/8240602">Find-A-Grave memorial</a></td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Image source: New York Public Library</td></tr> </table> </td></tr> <tr><td width=82 align="right" valign="top"> </td><td valign="top"><img src="rd.gif" width=13 height=13> John Winthrop (1588-1649) — Born in Edwardstone, Suffolk, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/ZZ/ED-born.html">England</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1601.html">1588</a>. <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/ofc/colgov.html">Colonial Governor of Massachusetts</a>, 1629-34, 1637-40, 1642-44, 1646-49; died in office 1649. Puritan. Died in Boston, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-died.html">Suffolk County</a>, Mass., <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/date/died-03-26.html">March 26</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/chrono/1649.html">1649</a> (age <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/death/age/60.html">about 60 years</a>). Interment at <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MA/SU-buried.html#cms02517">King's Chapel Burying Ground</a>, Boston, Mass. <table width=100% align="left"><tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">Relatives: Son of Adam Winthrop and Anne (Browne) Winthrop; father of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#563.19.80">John Winthrop (1606-1676)</a>; grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#711.88.26">Fitz-John Winthrop</a>; third great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#032.26.38">Thomas Lindall Winthrop</a>; fourth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/chipp-chmielewski.html#503.51.36">Martin Chittenden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sears.html#749.78.46">David Sears</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/winterberg-wisdom.html#613.51.62">Robert Charles Winthrop</a>; fifth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lyon.html#304.69.49">Chittenden Lyon</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nash.html#879.06.51">Alvah Nash</a>; sixth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#125.18.82">Israel Coe</a>; seventh great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/cochrane-coey.html#883.87.52">Lyman Wetmore Coe</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/urbahns-uttley.html#735.11.63">Robert Cleveland Usher</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/holden.html#540.60.75">Arthur Newton Holden</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wilcox.html#204.24.67">Allen Clarence Wilcox</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/gardner.html#971.08.56">Augustus Peabody Gardner</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/adams2.html#945.56.41">Charles Francis Adams</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/nichols.html#941.38.20">Charles Archibald Nichols</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#827.15.08">James Coats Auchincloss</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#534.11.05">Gordon Auchincloss</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#090.56.97">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss</a>; eighth great-grandfather of <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/minore-mitchel.html#401.01.53">William Amory Gardner Minot</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/aubert-austen.html#935.03.41">Hugh Dudley Auchincloss III</a>, <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lockyer-loftus.html#873.64.12">George Cabot Lodge</a> and <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/kerrey-keydel.html#928.28.53">John Forbes Kerry</a>.</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top"> Political families: <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1002.html">Adams family</a> of Boston, Massachusetts; <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001-1014.html">Adams family</a> of Boston and Quincy, Massachusetts (subsets of the <a href="https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/10001.html">Four Thousand Related Politicians</a>).</td></tr> <tr><td width=20> </td> <td width=26 valign="top"><img src="hand.gif" width=26 height=17></td> <td valign="top">See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John Winthrop">Wikipedia article</a></td></tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="center"> </td></tr></table> <hr> <table width=100%> <tr><td align="center"> "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard." 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