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 Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents.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

112 RAMBLES ABOUT PORTSMOUTH.
Then follows the labor of Thomas Crockett and the
altering of frame and chimney of a certain house-furnishing boards, nails-and plastering a chimney,-all amounting
to $21 —-- showing that Pickering was a carpenter.
This work was done at Newichewannock, and the bill is
receipted thus: His
John I Pickering.
Test, Charles Kneill. signe.
Page 49.-Capt. Thomas Pickering was killed at Annapolis, Nova Scotia. So says a petition from Mrs. Pickering.*
IHe married Dorothy Stover of Cape Neddock.
Page 53.-Capt. John Pickering was also member of the
Assembly in 1685 and speaker of the same-as I have a
Bill passed by the House of that date and signed John
Pickerin, Speaker. It was non concurred in by the Council.
Page 104. —Col. Atkinson also had the command of the
Regiment in the " Canada Expedition,"' so called, of 1746o
A thousand men were voted by June, and by the first of
July 800 men were raised or enlisted, and Col. Atkinson,
was ordered by Gov. Wentworth to occupy and repair Fort
William and Mary, with his Regiment. He did as ordered?
and added many guns to the batteries there and at "Jerry's
Point." The first of November, the Regiment went into
" Winter Quarters " at Sanbornton near " Union Bridge'
where they built a Fort-which I have called "Fort Atkinson.7" The regiment remained there till the fall of 1747,
when the Expedition to Canada and the Regiment was
abandoned.
Page 113.-Gov. Wentworth was Knighted for his services —was he not?
Page 152.-Are you not mistaken as to Gen. Whipple's
being appointed General by the Council-or being ordered
*^ W' are happy to hav e this fact attested so well. It is said in the N. H. Historical
Collections th t Pickering was killed by the Indians at Casco. ifr. Willis, the historian of
Portland, says that no such incident occurred at that time at that place. Tihere is new Bu
do ebt that it occurred at.Jiauyjolis.