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812 SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS
1760; Margaret, April 19, 1762; David, Jan.
25, 1764; John, Oct. 10, 1765; George, April
18, 1767; Mary, July 2, 1768; and Eebecca,
April 28, 1771.
(III) Lieut. George Pickens, son of James
and Margaret (Strobridge) Pickens, bom April
18, 1767, in the west parish of Middleboro, now
Lakevalle, Mass., married (first) Jan. 23, 1794,
Polly, daughter of Jolm and Ruth (Gushing)
Pickens, who died Aug. 19, 1805, and he married
(second) Nov. 20, 1806, Abigail, daughter
of Jonathan Harvey. She died July 13, 1839,
aged sixty-nine years. He died April 2, 1849.
His children were: Lucy, born June 10, 1795;
Asa Pease, April 24, 1797; Mary, April 24,
1800; George, April 4, 1802; Alexander, June
20, 1805 (all to the first marriage) ; Abigail,
of the Bring family, too, has allied itself by
marriage and become connected with a number
of the historic families of this section, with
such families as those of Perry and Brownell,
the former of which gave to the country the
distinguished brothers and naval officers, Co7nmodores
Oliver Hazard Perry, of Lake Erie
fame, and Mattliew Calbraith Perry, U. S. N.,
who negotiated our peace relations witli Japan,
and the latter of which gave the distinguished
of other families allied with this Bring fam-
ily, suffice it, however, to add that some of its
connections are traced to the historic "Mayflower,"
among tliem being the Alden and Mullins
families, Charles P. Bring having been a
direct descendant in the eighth generation
through John Bring and ICsther Perry (VII) j
Philip Bring and Ruth Stoddard (VI) >
Thomas Bring and Sarah Searle (V) ; Nathaniel
Searle and Sarah Rogers (IV) ; John
Rogers and Elizabeth Pabodie (III) ; William
Pabodie and Elizabeth Alden (II), of John
Alden and Priscilla Mullins (I), of the "Mayflower,"
whose courtship has been made famous
by Longfellow's poem. The Bring family also
Aug. 4, 1807; Jonathan Harvev, "
1808; and James, Jan. 23, 1810.
Aug. 15,
(IV) Abigail Pickens, daugliter of Lieut.
George and furnished its brave and distinguished men during
Abigail (Harvey) Pickens, born
Aug. 4, 1807, in what is now Lakeville, Mass.,
married March 3, 1834, Philip Hathaway
Peirce.
the Revolution, among them Nathaniel
Bring, who served in that memorable war;
Thomas Bring, who served as gunner on the
sloop "Success," during the Revolutionary war,
and died in 1787, and his son, Philip Bring,
who was born in 1750, was a lieutenant of
troop of horse, Capt. Gideon Ahny's Company,
in the same war; and the courageous Thomas
CHARLES PERRY BRING. The name
Bring is an old and honored one in New England,
one now of nearly two hundred and fifty
years" standing in and about tlie towns of both
Rhode Island and Massachusetts, close to the
line separating the two States. Little Compton
was the early home of the Bring family treated
in this article, and Newport the home of later
generations of this branch, which by way of
designation we have termed the Newport-Fall
River family, a prominent member of which
was the late Charles Perry Bring, who for a
period of over sixty years was one of the wellknown
and prominent business men of hie
adopted city. Fall River, Mass., one who had
worked his way from a poor boy to position
and influence in that community, and was
himself a witness to and participant in the
great changes wrought in those Bring,
years. This
Little Compton-Newport and Fall River branch
who was engaged in a seafaring life
during those times, being twice captured by
the British, hi« sufferings and privations while
a prisoner being vividly portrayed in his
"Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship,"
which was prepared by him in the year
1824, and afterward arranged for publication
by Mr. Albert G. Greene. And among others
of the family who have distinguished themselves
in various ways may be mentioned Benjamin
Bring, who served as a seaman on the
ship "Cffisar," of 130 tons, which vessel took
part in the Louisburg expedition, he being a
member of her crew when she was sent to Cape
Ann in 1745. where they were to take orders
from Governor Shirley, and then proceed to
Cape Breton to aid in overthrowing the enemy ;
and as well Benjamin Bring, who left his
home in Newport to join Commodore Perry
on Lake Erie, after which famous battle he
was never heard of, although he took a prominent
part therein, being one of the men who
rowed the small open boat containing Commodore
Perry, in which the latter was conveyed
from his sinking ship, the "Lawrence." across
the open water to the ship "Niagara," from
the mast of which he floated his ilag.
There follows in chronological order from
the early Little Compton Bring settler, the
ancestry of this fainily in America. The Bring
family
churchman— the Rt. Rev. Thomas Church
Brownell, D. B., LL. B., Bishop in the Protestant
Episcopal Church. More could be said
is of English origin. Members of the
family were prominent in the annals of the
mother country, being frequently and honorably
mentioned among the English Peerage.