The Pickering genealogy : being an account of the first three generations of the Pickering family of Salem, Mass., and of the descendants of John and Sarah (Burrill) Pickering, of the third generation . bought a farm in the adjoining town of Stratham,of the heirs of his brother-in-law, the Rev. Dudley Leavitt, for which hepaid £458 lawful money. The following description of his house is con- » Letter of J. C. A. Wingate, dated Oct. 10, 1894. Authorities differ as to the date of his birth. He himself, in a letter to John Pick-ering, dated Aug. 15, 1830, says that he was born in 1738, May 14 Jul
The Pickering genealogy : being an account of the first three generations of the Pickering family of Salem, Mass., and of the descendants of John and Sarah (Burrill) Pickering, of the third generation . bought a farm in the adjoining town of Stratham,of the heirs of his brother-in-law, the Rev. Dudley Leavitt, for which hepaid £458 lawful money. The following description of his house is con- » Letter of J. C. A. Wingate, dated Oct. 10, 1894. Authorities differ as to the date of his birth. He himself, in a letter to John Pick-ering, dated Aug. 15, 1830, says that he was born in 1738, May 14 Julian style. Otherauthorities give the date as follows : Salem Eegister, ]\Iay 11. 1739 ; Pick-ering, ilay 14, 1739, 0. S.; Town Records of Amesbury, J. Wingate Thornton, WingateGenealogy, the Xiehols Family Records. Uphams Life of Timothy Pickering, and TheNew Plampshire Churches, May 14, 1739; Francis H. Lee, :^ray 23, 1739; Journal ofDeacon Samuel Lane of Stratham, N. H., ilay 2o, 1739; and the Gardner Family Records,May 27, 1740. History of the Wingate Family, by C. E. L. Wingate, p. C5. THE HOUSE OF PAINE WINGATE AT STRATHAM, [56-57. V. S3.] ^X- /N X. S-X/^,,^^^ J * i,.. W-4^~ FIFTH GENERATION. 129 taiued in a letter received from his grandson, Joseph C. A. TVingate, datedat Stratham, N. H., April 1, 1892 : — Paine Wingate moved into the house iu March 1776. The house was then aleanto. Mr. Wingate put a second stoiy on the back side, and made other generalrepairs in 1780. It is now essentially what he then made it. It was never one of thebest sort of old houses, but was every way what it continues to be, a respectable farm-house. Paine Wingate was fond of company and many eminent guests were enter-tained by him iu the house. Washington did not come into the house when he passedthrough tlie town, but his carriage stopped in front of it; the family were presented tohim, and he drank a glass of wine with Mr. Wingate. It continued in the possession of tl
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