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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
. Materials may be found also in Sullivan's History; and far better in the elaborate and most minute work of Williamson. I have also derived advantage from Geo. Folsom's Saco and Biddeford, and W. Willis's Portland. Williamson, i. 227, describes Saco as a permanent settlement in 1623; I incline rather to the opinion of Willis and Folsom. The first settlement was probably 1626 made on the Maine, but a few miles from Monhegan, at the mouth of the Pemaquid. The first observers could not but admngland. If an unforeseen accident prevented his embarkation for America, and relieved Massachusetts of its apprehensions, he at least sent his nephew, William Gorges, to govern his territory. That officer repaired to the province without delay. Saco may have contained one hundred and fifty inhabitants, when the first court ever duly organized on the soil of 1636 Maine was held within its limits. Documents in Folsom, 49—52. Josselyn, 200. Before that time, there may have been some volunta
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
our posterity and children after us shall read, in our town-records, your loving-kindness to us, and our real endeavor after peace and righteousness. Far different were the early destinies of the Province of Maine. A general court was held at Saco, 1640 June 25. under the auspices of the Lord Proprietary, who had drawn upon paper a stately scheme of government, with deputies and counsellors, a marshal and a treasurer of the public revenue, chancellors, and a master of the ordnance, and evell inhabitants; and the whole eastern country gradually, yet reluctantly, submitted to the necessity of the change. When the claims of the proprietaries in England were urged before Cromwell, many inhabitants of the towns of York, Kittery, Wells, Saco, and 1656 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. Documents in Maine Hist Coll. 296. 299. Ms. Letter of Geo. Fol