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BNL.773.047
26 Aug 1773:22 (3647)
Salem, August 24. Last Friday departed this life, at his
house in this town, the Hon. Benjamin Pickman, Esq; in the
67th year of his age; a gentleman who has sustained many of
the
most important civil and military offices in the government,
all which he successively resigned in his advancing age. He
was for many years a member of his Majesty's council, a
justice of the inferior court, colonel of the first regiment
of militia in this county, and one of the most eminent
merchants in the province.
His remains were yesterday interred with all the respect,
honour and solemnity that the town could afford.--A
detachment from the regiment (of which he was lately
colonel), having their arms reversed, and the militia
officers of the town, and the present colonel, dressed in
military mourning, preceded the corps, marching in funeral
procession, with drums and fifes beating and playing. A
numerous train of mourners, followed by a large number of
the principal gentlemen and ladies of the place succeeded
the corps; the whole closed by a number of coaches and
chariots, and formed one of the greatest funeral processions
ever before seen in the town, and which drew together
several thousand spectators. . .
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