Historian; born in
Saco, Me., Aug. 12, 1818; graduated at the Harvard Law School in 1840; was admitted to the bar and practised in
Boston; was one of the originators of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society.
His publications include
Lives of Isaac Heath and John Bowles, and of Rev. John Eliot, Jr.;
The Landing at Cape Anne, or the charter of the first permanent colony on the Territory of the Massachusetts Company, now discovered and first published from the original manuscript;
Ancient Pemaquid and historic review;
Peter Oliver's “Puritan commonwealth” reviewed;
The pulpit of the American Revolution, or the political sermons of the period of 1776, with an introduction, notes, and illustrations;
Colonial schemes of Popham and Gorges;
The Historical relation of New England to the English commonwealth, etc. He died in
Saco, Me., June 6, 1878.