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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
ir Ferdinand Gorges, Gorges' Description, 24. Briefe Narration, c. XXII. immediately issued a patent to John Pierce for their benefit. But the trustee, growing desirous of becoming lord proprietary, and holding them as tenants, obtained a 1623. new charter, which would have caused much difficulty, had not his misfortunes compelled him to transfer his rights to the company. When commerce extended to the Kennebec, a patent for the adjacent territory was easily procured. The same year, Allerton was again 16 sent to London to negotiate an enlargement of both the grants; and he gained from the council of Plymouth concessions equal to all his desires. But it was ever impossible to obtain a charter from the king; Chap. VIII.} 1630 so that, according to the principles adopted in England, the planters, with an unquestionable property in the soil, had no right to assume a separate jurisdiction. It was therefore in the virtues of the colonists themselves, that their institutions foun