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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 8 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 4 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Maine. (search)
..April 3, 1639 Thomas Purchase, first settler at Pejepscot, on the Androscoggin, assigns to Governor Winthrop, of Massachusetts, all the tract of Pejepscot, on both sides of the river, 4 miles square towards the sea ......Aug. 22, 1639 Thomas Gorges appointed deputy-governor of the province of Maine......March 10, 1640 First general court under the charter opened at Saco......June 25, 1640 Gorges founds in Agamenticus a city of 21 square miles, which he calls Gorgeana......March Gorges founds in Agamenticus a city of 21 square miles, which he calls Gorgeana......March 1, 1642 Alexander Rigby purchases the abandoned Plough patent, or Lybonia, and commissions George Cleaves deputy president, who opens a court at Saco styled The General Assembly of the province of Lygonia, which extended from Cape Porpoise to Casco......April, 1643 Richard Vines elected deputy-governor of the province of Maine......1644 Commissioners appointed for the purpose decide that the province of Lygonia does not belong to the province of Maine, as the latter contended, and the K
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
167 note. Gazette, United States Literary, the, 23-26, 29 note, 41; Longfellow contributes to, 27. Georgia (State), 143. Germany, 8, 50-52, 65, 71, 98, 125, 142, 156, 170, 199. Gervinus, George G., 112. Gladstone, William E., 221. Gloucester, Mass., 264. Goddard, William, 97. Goethe, John Wolfgang von, 64, 92, 112, 234, 289; his Werther, mentioned, 120; quoted, 233. Goldsmith, Oliver, 50, 62. Goodrich, Samuel G., 72; his Recollections of a Lifetime, mentioned, 74. Gorges, Thomas, 131. Gongora, Luis de, 68. Gothenburg, 97, 101-103. Gottingen, 52. Gower, Sir, Ronald, his My Reminiscences quoted, 279-281. Graham, Mr., 158. Graham's Magazine, 164, 193. Grant, General Ulysses S., 6. Granville, Earl, 254; offers Longfellow bust to the Dean, 250, 251. Gray, J. C., 86. Gray, Thomas, 62, 252. Great Britain, 8. Greece, 31, 33. Green, Priscilla, 210. Green, Samuel S., 118 note. Greene, George W., 72, 74, 113,148; his Life of Nathanael Greene,
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
1. had travailed in the cause above forty years, and expended above twenty thousand pounds; yet all the regalia which Thomas Gorges, his trusty and wellbeloved cousin and deputy, could find in the principality, were not enough for the scanty furnituants and white rods, can make of a town of less than three hundred inhabitants and its petty officers. Yet the nature of Gorges was generous, and his piety sincere. He sought pleasure in doing good; fame, by advancing Christianity among the heathenright; and both were enjoined to live in peace. But how could Vines and Cleaves assert their authority? On the death of Gorges, the people repeatedly wrote to his heirs. No answer was received; and such commissioners as had authority from 1647-8 h lies south of that parallel; for the grant to Massachusetts was prior to the patents under which Rigby and the heirs of Gorges had been disputing. Nor did the engrasping Massachusetts make an idle boast of the territorial extent of its chartered r