"Timothy Dexter the a author of the following curious and unique production entitled "A Pickle for the Knowing Ones" which is here re-printed verbatim et spellatim from the original edition was born in Malden January 22 1747. Having served an apprenticeship with a leather dresser he commenced business in Newburyport shortly after he was one and twenty and being industrious and economical he soon found himself in good circumstan-ces. In the year 1770 he married and receiving a conside-rable amount of money with his wife he was thus put in possession of a moderate fortune. In 1776 he had for one of his apprenti­ces the no less eccentric and afterwards the no less noted Jonathan Plumer jun. "travelling pre-acher physician and poet" as he was accustomed to style himself and of whom we shall hereafter speak. In addi-tion to his regular business of selling leather breeches gloves "soutabel for wimen's ware" &c. he engaged in commercial speculations and in various kinds of busi-ness and was unusually successful."