Pickard Family

last name (variants): Pickard; Pickard; Pickard; Pickard; Pickard; Pickard; Pickard

honorific(s): Mr.; Old Mr.; Mrs.; Sister

Residence(s)

Cherry Valley (from 1786 to 1787)

Biography

A family in Cherry Valley, New York, whose members include, at least, Nicholas, Adolf, Jona and Susanna (spelling uncertain). Occom lodged with members of the Pickard family and preached at Nicholas Pickard's home during his travels in 1786 and 1787. There appear to be no published sources that verify this family. Some amateur genealogy sites suggest that a family by this name had been residing in Cherry Valley before and after the "Cherry Valley Massacre" in 1778, including one Nicholas Pickard who was killed in 1776.

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Sources

http://e-familyhistory.com/content/PICKARD_ANNEX-Ida.htm. Hurd, History of Otsego County, New York (1878).