"The Pickering Coat of Arms. From an emproidery wrought by Sarah Pickering [48. V. 17,] in 1753, now in the possession of John Pickering, Esq. Salem, Mass."
"There is still another example of these arms, in te form of a hatchment, which was probably worked by Abigail (Pickering) Baldwin, a cousin of Sara Pickering, and from whom it descended to her niece Hannah (Pickering) Simonds and from her to her daughter Hannah M. (Simonds) Clark, of Lynn, in whose possession it was a few years ago>"
ref: The Pickering Genealogy: Being an Account of the First Three Generations of Pickering Family of Salem, Mass., and of the descendants of John and Sarah (Burrill) Pickering, of the Third Generation.
By: Harrison Ellery and Charles Pickering Bowditch
Vol I, Pages 1-287. Privately Printed 1897