Note 45 — Chapter I

Four years earlier, Pickering had plotted the secession of New England and enlisted the support of the British Minister to accomplish it. (See vol. iii, chap. vii, of this work.) His wife was an Englishwoman, the daughter of an officer of the British Navy. (Pickering and Upham: Life of Timothy Pickering, i, 7; and see Pickering to his wife, Jan. 1, 1808, ib. iv, 121.) His nephew had been Consul-General at London under the Federalist Administrations and was at this time a merchant in that city. (Pickering to Rose, March 22, 1808, New-England Federalism: Adams, 370.) Pickering had been, and still was, carrying on with George Rose, recently British Minister to the United States, a correspondence all but treasonable. (Morison: Otis, ii, 6.)