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MS050 B03 F01.08 |
Title |
John Pickering to John Langdon |
Scope & Content |
Three page letter from John Pickering in Portsmouth to John Langdon in Philadelphia. John Pickering, 1737-1805, was President of New Hampshire, Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court of Judicature and a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire. He was the second federal official impeached by the United States House of Representatives and the first person convicted and removed from office by the United States Senate. According to Langdon's wishes, Pickering attended the last session of the Constitutional Convention in Concord and spoke to the committee whose responsibility was to report on the alterations it thought necesssary. Instead, he found that it had essentially written a whole new constitution. The chief alterations are in the religious article - the omission of the religious test; diving the state into thirteen districts for the chocie of senators; empowering the people in each county to choose a Councillor; calling the President Governor, and giving him a "qialified negative to the acts and resolves of the House & Senate; appointing the President of the Senate to fill the chair in case of vacancy; defining the objects of impeachments and directing the proceedings therein; altering the time of the first meeting of the General Court from the first Wednesday of June to the last Wednesday of October annually, and empowering them to call a convention at the end of every seven years if a majority of the people desire it. Col. Gains, John Peirce and Col. John S. Sherburne were chosen as as Representatives. The votes for President were chiefly in favor of President Josiah Bartlett, and for Senators Judge White, Judge Forter, Col. Toppan, Col. James Sheafe and William Plumer. Col. Ladd has jsut received news that his ship "Columbia" was cast away in a violent storm on Cape Cod and was broken in pieces. Capt. Chauncy and all hands except two perished. The cargo not being insured, the Colonel's loss will be £3000. General Sullivan's conditions worsens and his friends think he is near his end. He is glad to hear that Langdon is interested in the New Hampshire Bank. The President is Nicholas Gilman and John Peirce is cashier of the bank. Subscription to it was rapid. Dated March 16, 1792. |
Collection |
John Langdon Papers |
Object Name |
Letter |
Date |
March 16, 1792 |
People |
Langdon, John, 1741-1819 Pickering, John, 1737-1805 Sherburne, John Samuel, 1757-1830 Bartlett, Josiah, 1729-1795 Gaines, George, c1736-1809 Peirce, John, 1746-1814 Toppan, Christopher, c1734-1818 Plumer, William, 1759-1850 Sheafe, James, 1755-1829 Ladd, Eliphalet (Col.), 1744-1806 Sullivan, John, 1740-1795 Gilman, Nicholas, 1755-1814 |
Search Terms |
Columbia (Ship) |
Subjects |
General Court Presidents Chief Justice Constitutional conventions Concord (N.H.) Constitutions Elections -- New Hampshire Kittery (Me.) Shipwrecks Cargo New Hampshire Bank |