# Benjamin Pickman Jr.

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American politician (1763–1843)

Benjamin Pickman Jr. Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 2nd district In office March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811 Preceded by Joseph Story Succeeded by William Reed Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives In office 1797-1802 1812-1813 Member of the Massachusetts Senate In office 1803 Personal details Born (1763-09-30)September 30, 1763 Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America Died August 16, 1843(1843-08-16) (aged 79) Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. Party Federalist Spouse Anstiss Derby Children Hasket Derby Pickman, Benjamin T. Pickman[1]

**Benjamin Pickman Jr.** (September 30, 1763 – August 16, 1843) was a [U.S. representative](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) from [Massachusetts](/source/Massachusetts).

## Biography

Pickman was born in [Salem](/source/Salem%2C_Massachusetts) in the [Province of Massachusetts Bay](/source/Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay), a descendant of Benjamin Pickman, an Englishman from [Bristol](/source/Bristol).[2][3] Pickman graduated from [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) in 1784 after having attended Dummer Academy (now known as [The Governor's Academy](/source/The_Governor's_Academy)). The descendant of a Salem merchant family dynasty related to other prominent Salem families such as the Derbys, the Pickerings and the Crowninshields,[4] Pickman studied law in [Newburyport, Massachusetts](/source/Newburyport%2C_Massachusetts), and was [admitted to the bar](/source/Admission_to_the_bar_in_the_United_States), but soon relinquished the practice of law to engage in commercial pursuits, becoming one of the most active merchants of his day in Salem.

[John Singleton Copley](/source/John_Singleton_Copley), Portrait of Benjamin Pickman, Sr.

Pickman's father Col. [Benjamin Pickman, Sr.](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benjamin_Pickman,_Sr.&action=edit&redlink=1),[5] one of the most important merchants in Salem, had been a [Loyalist](/source/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)), his estates confiscated by the Colonial government and was forced to flee America for England, only returning to Salem in 1785 after the end of the [Revolutionary War](/source/American_Revolutionary_War).[6]

Benjamin Pickman Jr., served the new nation in several capacities. He was a member of the [Massachusetts House of Representatives](/source/Massachusetts_House_of_Representatives) in 1797–1802, 1812, and 1813. Benjamin Pickman Jr. also served in the [Massachusetts Senate](/source/Massachusetts_Senate) in 1803, as well as a member of the [executive council of the State](/source/Massachusetts_Governor's_Council) in 1805, 1808, 1813, 1814, and 1819–1821.

Pickman was elected as a [Federalist](/source/Federalist_Party) to the [Eleventh Congress](/source/11th_United_States_Congress) (March 4, 1809 – March 3, 1811), but he was not a candidate for renomination in 1810. He served as member of the [Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1820–1821](/source/Massachusetts_Constitutional_Convention_of_1820%E2%80%931821). He served as overseer of [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University) 1810–1818. He served as president of the board of directors of the [Theological School at Cambridge](/source/Harvard_Divinity_School). He died in [Salem, Massachusetts](/source/Salem%2C_Massachusetts), August 16, 1843, and was interred with his Pickman ancestors in Salem's Broad Street Cemetery.[7] He was elected a Fellow of the [American Academy of Arts and Sciences](/source/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences) in 1815.[8]

Pickman was instrumental in the commercial development of much of the heart of historic Salem. In 1815 he and John Derby III acquired property belonging to Derby family heirs to develop Derby Square, which would encompass three brick commercial rows. The Pickman-Derby Block, built in 1817, still stands. The Pickman Building on Derby Square, built in 1816, was part of the development.[9] The Pickman family also owned Pickman farm. Salem's Pickman Street is named for them.[10]

Benjamin Pickman Jr. was married to Anstiss Derby, daughter of [Elias Hasket Derby](/source/Elias_Hasket_Derby) and Elizabeth [Crowninshield](/source/Crowninshield_family).[11] The son of Benjamin Pickman and the former Anstiss Derby was Hasket Derby Pickman, who died in 1815, the same year he graduated from [Harvard College](/source/Harvard_College).[12]

While he was known as Benjamin Pickman Jr., he was actually the fifth continuous Benjamin in the line. His daughter, Anstiss Derby Pickman, married John Whittingham Rogers. They were the parents of Anstiss Derby Rogers, who married merchant [William Shepard Wetmore](/source/William_Shepard_Wetmore) on September 5, 1843. Their son, [George P. Wetmore](/source/George_P._Wetmore), was the Governor of Rhode Island and a United States Senator from that state, and their daughter, Annie Derby Rogers Wetmore, married businessman [William Watts Sherman](/source/William_Watts_Sherman). The daughter of Sherman, Georgette Wetmore Sherman, married [Harold Brown (Rhode Island financier)](/source/Harold_Brown_(Rhode_Island_financier)), son of [John Carter Brown](/source/John_Carter_Brown) and grandson of [Nicholas Brown Jr.](/source/Nicholas_Brown_Jr.)

Benjamin's niece, Mary Toppan Pickman, married Massachusetts Congressman and diplomat [George B. Loring](/source/George_B._Loring), who is Benjamin's great-nephew through his brother Clark. She is the daughter of Benjamin's brother, Dr. Thomas Pickman. His aunt, Judith Pickman, married physician and scientist [Edward Augustus Holyoke](/source/Edward_Augustus_Holyoke). He died in August 1843 at 80

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Roberts, Oliver Ayer (1897), *History of the Military company of the Massachusetts, now called The Ancient and Honorable Company of Massachusetts. Volume II. 1738-1828.*, Boston, MA: The Ancient and Honorable Company of Massachusetts., p. 408

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [The Founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sarah Sprague Saunders Smith, Sun Printing Company, Pittsfield, Mass., 1897](https://books.google.com/books?id=V4yBOCV5-pEC&dq=%22benjamin+pickman%22+bristol&pg=PA161)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Naturalization papers of Benjamin Pickman, Dudley Leavitt Pickman Papers, Phillips Library Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, pem.org](http://www.pem.org/museum/newmanuscripts8-08.pdf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20141218203340/http://www.pem.org/museum/newmanuscripts8-08.pdf) December 18, 2014, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Pickman House, Essex Institute Historical Collections, Essex Institute, Peabody Essex Museum, Vol. XXXIX, Printed for the Society, Salem, 1903](https://books.google.com/books?id=qRURAAAAYAAJ&dq=pickman+derby+house+washington+street+salem&pg=PA112)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** [The Founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sarah Sprague Saunders Smith, Sun Printing Company, Pittsfield, Mass., 1897](https://books.google.com/books?id=V4yBOCV5-pEC&dq=%22dudley+pickman%22&pg=PA162)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** [The Journal and Letters of Samuel Curwen, An American in England, Samuel Curwen, George Atkinson Ward, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1864](https://books.google.com/books?id=ZjEDAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22william+pickman%22+benjamin+salem&pg=PA627)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [Pickman family tomb, Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts, smugmug.com](http://gravematter.smugmug.com/gallery/1120948/1/82114924/Large) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090804145147/http://gravematter.smugmug.com/gallery/1120948/1/82114924/Large) August 4, 2009, at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-AAAS_8-0)** ["Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter P"](http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterP.pdf) (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved August 7, 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** [Architecture in Salem, Bryant Franklin Tolles, Jr., Bryant F. Tolles, Carolyn K. Tolles, Paul F. Norton, reprinted by UPNE, 2004](https://books.google.com/books?id=9iP5brDeiq4C&dq=salem+witch+museum+church&pg=PA87)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** [The Pickman Silver, Essex Institute Historical Collections, Essex Institute, Peabody Essex Museum, Vol. XXXIX, Salem, Mass., 1903](https://books.google.com/books?id=qRURAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22pickman+street%22+salem+massachusetts&pg=PA104)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** [Life in a New England Town, 1787, 1788, John Quincy Adams, Charles Francis Adams, Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1903](https://books.google.com/books?id=tl0SAAAAYAAJ&dq=pickman+salem&pg=PA102)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-12)** ["Gravestone of Hasket Derby Pickman, Old Burying Point, Salem, Massachusetts, gravematter.smugmug.com"](https://web.archive.org/web/20081004035659/http://gravematter.smugmug.com/gallery/1499497/1/71888985/Large). Archived from [the original](http://gravematter.smugmug.com/gallery/1499497/1/71888985/Large) on October 4, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2008.

## External links

- United States Congress. ["Benjamin Pickman Jr. (id: P000330)"](http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000330). *[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress](/source/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress)*.

- [Benjamin Pickman Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/18636221) at [Find a Grave](/source/Find_a_Grave)

## See also

- [Dudley Leavitt Pickman](/source/Dudley_Leavitt_Pickman)

This article incorporates [public domain material](/source/Copyright_status_of_works_by_the_federal_government_of_the_United_States) from [*Biographical Directory of the United States Congress*](http://bioguide.congress.gov). [Federal government of the United States](/source/Federal_government_of_the_United_States).

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