(I) John Pickard, the immigrant ancestor of the Hon. Edward L. Pickard, was born 1628, possibly a son of the Rev. Henry Pickard, aforementioned. There is reason to believe that he came from Rowley Regis, a town in Staffordshire, England, five miles west of Birmingham, with the Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, in 1638, as a member of his family, and settled on the plantation which on September 4, 1639, was established by Mr. Rogers as the town of Rowley, Essex county, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Mr. Pickard was well educated, possessed some property, was evidently of a good family, and was an influential member of society. He married, May 27, 1644, Jane Crosby, daughter of Dr. Anthony Crosby, a "Chirurgeon," of Rowley. He was then twenty-two years of age and she eighteen. The widow of Dr. Crosby became the wife of the Rev. Mr. Cotton, the English Puritan pastor of the first church in Boston, organized 1630; he was born 1585, died 1652; he was called "the patriarch of New England." Children of John and Jane (Crosby) Pickard: 1. Deborah, born October 13, 1646, died young. 2. Mary, married, February 14, 1670, John Pearson. 3. Rebecca. 4. John, born March 1, 1653, married (first), February 11. 1679, Sarah Smith; (second), March 5, 1691, Joanna Bishop. 5. Sarah, born January 31, 1658. 6. Anna, born February 15, 1659, married. March 22, 1681-82, Aaron Pengry. 7. Captain Samuel, born May 16, 16—, see forward. 8. Jane, born April 22, 1666, married, November 6, 1684, Edward Hazen. 9. Hannah, born April 1o, 1670, married, July 19, 1686, Moses Broadstreet. Either Sarah or Rebecca married Thomas Hammond, who died February 26, 1724-28, and either Sarah or Rebecca married Solomon Phips. John Pickard, the father of these children, died September 24, 1683; Jane, his widow, died February 9, 1716, aged ninety. His will was signed and sealed September 6. 1683 proved November 27, 1683, and his estate was valued at one thousand two hundred and seventy-nine pounds, two shillings and four pence.