McLean, David TIMOTHY PICKERING AND THE AGE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (Doctoral Dissertation, originally presented at Sydney University, 1975) This biography focuses attention on the career of Timothy Pickering (1745-1829) prior to the climactic effects on him arid the Federalist party of the Jay Treaty and deteriorating Franco-American relations. The papers of Pickering and his contemporaries are herein explored to cover the three main stages of his Revolutionary career. First, McLean examines Pickering's rapid rise to local prominence as a leader of the Revolutionary movement in Salem, Massachusetts. Then attention is paid to his service in the Continental Army as Adjutant General, member of the Board of War, and Quartermaster General. Finally, Pickering's postwar career is examined on the Pennsylvania and New York frontier, with special attention to the Wyoming Valley disturbances and to Pickering's role as the federal government's chief Indian commissioner in the early 1790s. What particularly distinguishes this biography is its balanced appraisal of Pickering's character, his austerity, his sense of sacrifice for the public good, and his self-righteous obsession with the values of virtue and independence. A man of paradox and a pragmatic ideologue, the early Pickering is shown to have been a radically different person from the High Federalist who emerges after 1705. LC 80-2930 New York, 1982 ISBN: 0405140983 $60.95