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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

114 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
formerly belonged to Sampson B. Lord, Esq.-w hen they
fired upon the Scarborough's barge. The bullet-hole in
the east end of the warehouse used to be pointed out.
Pickering finally took that barge and impounded it. The
crew, for fear of being fired upon landed the Barge in the
slip below Pickering's mill. "Tom " found it, and hitching
fbur horses to it hauled it through the various streets, he
standing in the Barge and ass-uming the command. After
they had worn her bottom entirely off, they hauled her to
the pound and locked her up. Deacon Drown's wife (his
sister) stood in the door, and as " Tomf" rode past in the
Barge, cried out, " Tom, you'll be hanged, for you're rebelling against your King and Countrya." I will add two
other afairs of some importance in which Capt Pickering
was the principal actor.
Sometime in the night of October 1, 1775, the British
ship' Prince George" came into the " Lower Harbor" at
Portsmouth, in'a storm. On the next day, Oct. 2, Pickers
ing, with a picked crew in a boat-boarded and took the
ship, and brought her up to town. This prize was very
opportune-as the town of Portsmouth and Washington's
army at Cambridge were out of lour, and the Prince George
had on board 1894 barrels of that necessary article. She
was bound from Bristol to Boston. About 50 barrels were
kept in Portsmouth, and the rest was sent to the army at
Cambridge, by Washington's request. His letter and that
of the "Committee of Safety," are on file in the State
Secretary's office-from which I gather the main facts.
Another. There was a Privateer called the Warren and
commanded by Capt. Burke. This was taken by the British Frigate Milford and turned into a tender for that Frigate.
This tender of aooiAt 80 tons, commanded by Capt. Willis,
and with a crew of 50 men all told, besides the Captain,
was a source of great annoyance along our coast, from'Quoddy to Cape Cod-and in November and December of