Goodyear (Minutes of Council).-These patentees ejected Cleves and Tucker, and formed a plantation at the mouth of the Spurwink. This, Blue Point (No. 9), Black Point (No. 15), and Stratton's Islands (mentioned in connexion with No. 17) were all annexed to Massachusetts in 1658, and consolidated into the township of Scarborough. 19. December 2, 1631. others, on which Agamenticus Grant to Gorges and Norton and was settled (Minutes of Council). 20. February 29, 1632. Grant to Robert Aldsworth and Giles Eldridge of 12,000 acres of land at Pemaquid.-There is a very full account of this settlement in the fifth volume of the Maine Historical Society. It continued at times incorporated with Massachusetts, at times subject to the proprietorship of the Duke of York. It was converted into an outpost against the French and their Indian allies. 21. June 16, 1632. Grant to Way and Purchase of land on the river Bishopscott.-Afterwards sold by the patentees to Massachusetts (see p. 292). After the transfer Purchase continued to occupy the soil. Massachusetts, having secured other and more effectual hold over the land beyond the Merrimac, ceased to value this. In 1652 Prince was sent by the Plymouth government to administer their territory on the Kennebec, and at the same time Purchase placed himself and his settlement under the jurisdiction of Plymouth. Besides the plantations made under these grants three settlements or groups of settlements were made under grants from Gorges:— 1. When Cleves and Tucker were ejected by Goodyear and Trelawny they obtained from Gorges a grant of land on Casco Bay. This with other settlements near it became the township of Falmouth (Williamson, vol. i. p. 393; Willis, p. 22). 2. When Massachusetts annexed Exeter Wheelwright removed northward within the jurisdiction of Gorges and formed the settlement of Wells. The deed of grant from Thomas Gorges, acting on behalf of the Proprietor, to Wheelwright and his associates is published in an Appendix to Sullivan's History of Maine,' p. 408. 3. A number of scattered plantations on the north-east bank of the Piscataqua were in 1647 incorporated to form the township of Kittery. No writer has, as far as I know, satisfactorily explained the origin of the name Maine. It has been said that the name was bestowed as a compliment to Henrietta Maria. I cannot find that she was in any way connected with Maine, save that she was a French princess. The name seems to be first used in the grant to Gorges and Mason, August 10, 1622. (No. 2 in the above list.) New Hampshire was the name given by Mason to his grant of November 7, 1629. The name was always used to describe the tract between the Merrimac and the Piscataqua claimed by Mason's heirs, and containing the four townships of Dover, Exeter, Hampton, and Strawberry Bank. The name was only geographical, and had no political meaning till the territory was constituted a separate colony in 1679. INDEX то THE FIRST VOLUME. ACADIA, 303 ACA Agamenticus, settlement at, Aldsworth, Robert, 291, 433 Amsterdam, English refugees at, 39; Androscoggin river, grant of land Anne, Cape, fishing station at, 87, Antinomians, first appearance of, in 246 Aquednek, settlement at, 246; as- Atherton, Humphrey, 390 De la Tour, 330; dealings with Bote, 357, note ACKUS, Isaac, his history, 239, BRO Banks, Sir John, 193 Baptists, first church of, at Provi- Batchelor, Stephen, 286 Baxter, George, of New Netherlands, Beauchamp, John, 431 Belknap, Dr., his history, 268 Bishopscott, see Pejebscot Block Island, expedition against, 220 Brewster, William, of Plymouth, 41, Chancewell, voyage of, 37 Charles, Prince, names New England, Charles River, dispute about, 297 Childe, Dr., 357, 372; fined, 377, Childe, Major, 357 Church, membership of, required as Clarke, John, 358; emigrates to Cleve, George, 291, 406, 432 Cocheco, settlement at, 272, 277; 65 Coddington, William, 177; emigrates to Pocasset, 246; appointed judge, Coggeshall, John, 181 Coke, Sir Edward, 34; patronizes DUD Colmer, Abraham, 272 Conant, Roger, 112, 119 Constitution of Plymouth, 94; of Cotton, John, 145, 171, 296; his Cromwell, a sea-captain, 336 AIRFIELD, settlement at, 301, Harley, Captain, 27 Hartford, settlement of, 213; treaty Harris, William, 426 of, 238; Dutch at, 302 IIathorne, William, a Federal Com- Hawkins, Captain, 334 Hayes, John, Governor of Massachu- Hazel of Rhode Island, 419 111 |