This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: pete_lodge Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.vermont.unknown/4953.1.1.1.1.3.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I do not feel that there was a direct ancestral line through either of the two Rev Leonard Frost to the Pickering family, at least not until Rev George Winslow Frost married Abigail Pickering the d/o Rev George Pickering and Mary Bemis. Remembering that Rev George Winslow Frost is the son of Rev Leonard Frost snr and therefore brother of your Rev Leonard Pickering Frost of Waltham MA. I think that your Rev Leonard Pickering Frost was named after Rev George Pickering out of respect and an obvious relationship that was built between these two families through their Methodist ministries. I have found the following regarding Rev George Pickering, who was clearly a man hugely respected within the Methodist Church and with your Frost family not only being Methodists but also ministers, I think my conjecture holds some substance..... Here is the info on Rev George Pickering; [Draper:92]: The Rev. George Pickering, was, at his death, the oldest effective Methodist minister in the world, having been a preacher for Fifty-seven years. Inheriting from his father a considerable fortune, principally in slaves, he refused to receive them, or any profit from their sale or labor, and they were freed. He also declined to be made a Bishop. He was one of the pioneers of Methodism in New England. At his death there were but two members of American Conferences who had preceeded him in the ministry, and but fourteen in England. Born in Talbot Co., Md. brought up in Philadelphia, and converted in that city at St. George 's Church, at the age of eighteen; he began preaching immediately and continued to do so almost till he died, a period of fifty-nine years. When he entered the ministry there were but eighteen Methodist preachers in the New England conference, when he died, he was at the head of six hundred and thirty-six, most of whom had been raised up by the i! nstrumentality of his colleagues and himself. The church had risen from a membership of 500 to 66,000. His wife Mary Bemis was converted in her seventeenth year. His marriage gave to the Rev. Mr. Pickering a home with his wife's father at Waltham, such as few Methodist ministers enjoyed, and free from the financial cares of life, he was at liberty to pursue his vocation as a minister of the Gospel. The old house descended to him at Abraham Bemis's death. The source of this information is to be found on the following link, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=twotacky1&id=I03925 Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.