Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in chapter 14, page 431 of George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.:
... were urged before Cromwell, many inhabitants of the towns of York, Kittery, Wells, Saco, and Cape Porpoise, yet not a majority, remonstrated on the ground of former experience.
To sever them from Massachusetts would be to them the subverting of all civil order.
Thus did Massachusetts, following the most favorable interpretation of its charter, extend its frontier to the islands in Casco Bay.
It was...
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| † | Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) | 30,598 | 236 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | |
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