Son of John Gardner and Elizabeth Pickering. He graduated Harvard 1786 and was a merchant.
In 1796, Samuel legally changed his name, adding "Pickering" as a middle name.[1]
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Owned the Gardner-Wyman-Peabody mill. Recent low tide turned up a mill stone from that era.