Pickett was born on July 14th, 1771 in Milford, Connecticut. His parents were United Empire Loyalists who fled to the Canadas during the American revolution.[1] In the early 1790s, he married a Miss Ingersol, of Ingersol, Upper Canada. She died a few years afterwards.[1]
Pickett was received on trial as a circuit rider in 1800. He was assigned the Grand River circuit. In 1801 he was assigned to the Bay of Quinte circuit as assistant to Sylvanus Keeler. In 1802, he was assigned to the Niagara circuit, where he was the assistant to John Robinson. In 1803 he again rode the Grand River circuit, and in 1804 he was back on the Niagara circuit, which by then included Long Point. Luther Bishop was assignd to be his assistant during his second tour of Niagara.[2] In 1805, Pickett was a circuit rider on the Yonge Street circuit, under Elder Samuel Coate.[3] He remained on the Yonge Street Circuit in 1806.[4]
Pickett died on July 14th, 1854.[1]
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- ^ Carroll, John (1867). Case and his cotemporaries, or, The Canadian itinerants' memorial constituting a biographical history of Methodism in Canada, from its introduction into the Province, till the death of the Rev. Wm. Case in 1855. Vol. I. Toronto: Wesleyan Conference Office. p. 26.
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