Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

PICKERING HISTORY. ill
RAMBLE C.
nMore of Picketing's History-Col. Atkinson —Woodbury
Ijangclon-Revolutionary Incidents.
SOON after the issue of the First Series of the RAMBLES,
the following communication to the Rambler was received
from one of the historians of New Hampshire, giving some
incidents in the local history of Portsmouth, that have not
before been recorded in this publication.
CONCORD) Feb. 13, 1860.
MY DEAR SIR:-Your " RAMBLES " have extended to this
place,-for which receive my thanks, as I have been very
much interested in them.
I have ma de some notes and corrections in my copy,which as they refer to other authors, as well as to the
"' Rambles," i subjoin for your perusal.
On page 18th occurs the name Wernerlon. This name is
thus given by Belknap, Farmer and others, but it is Wannerton, as I have the proof in the original letters of Mason,
Gorges and Gibbens, now before me. On same page is GoeO
This word stumbled Belknap, Farmer, Moore, Kelley and
others,-but should not stumble you or me, as we know the
name still is extant inNewington and Greenland. It is Gee,
as it occurs in-John Gee Pickering. Gee was a family
connection of the Pickering's. It was right in the
Appendix of Belknap, but Dr. Farmer altered it in a foot
note to Goe. I have the original letter of Ambrose Gibbens, of 1633, given in Belknap's Appendix, in which the
name is unmistakably Gee. This settles the question.
On page 47, you say, "as early as 1636 JoShn Pickeringr,
&c. John Pickering was here as early as 1633, as I have
a bill'of his now before me, the caption or heading of which
reads thus:
"John Pickering Creditor unto Mr. Ambrose Gibbens ift
the yeares 1633 and 1634 as foll."