Maine Pioneer Settlements ..., Volume 3W.B. Clarke Company, 1909 - Maine |
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Page 130
... shillings and one capon . Twenty years later land was held at a higher premium . This effort of Vines was well seconded by the patentees on the east side of the river . They were the proper sort of men to engage in so strenuous an ...
... shillings and one capon . Twenty years later land was held at a higher premium . This effort of Vines was well seconded by the patentees on the east side of the river . They were the proper sort of men to engage in so strenuous an ...
Page 132
... shillings the individual . George Cleeve , who had moved to Cascoe three years before from the Spurwink lands claimed by Winter , talked too much and was mulcted in the sum of five shillings . Commissioner Bonighton , with Spartan ...
... shillings the individual . George Cleeve , who had moved to Cascoe three years before from the Spurwink lands claimed by Winter , talked too much and was mulcted in the sum of five shillings . Commissioner Bonighton , with Spartan ...
Page 136
... shillings were raised for the support of the minister , and so it came about that in 1636 the Rev. Richard Gibson came to them , who went from settlement to settle- ment along the coast , missionary - like , but his main efforts in the ...
... shillings were raised for the support of the minister , and so it came about that in 1636 the Rev. Richard Gibson came to them , who went from settlement to settle- ment along the coast , missionary - like , but his main efforts in the ...
Page 150
... shillings . With the capture of Bristol by Cromwell , Gorges was taken prisoner and his estates plundered . He was thrown into prison and is supposed to have died not long after . This was in 1645. This same year the Saco court ordered ...
... shillings . With the capture of Bristol by Cromwell , Gorges was taken prisoner and his estates plundered . He was thrown into prison and is supposed to have died not long after . This was in 1645. This same year the Saco court ordered ...
Page 168
... shillings , and expense and costs at twelve shillings and six- pence . Such was the estimate of wounded feelings in those days , and which were evidently more tenderly considered than two hundred years later when one cent and costs have ...
... shillings , and expense and costs at twelve shillings and six- pence . Such was the estimate of wounded feelings in those days , and which were evidently more tenderly considered than two hundred years later when one cent and costs have ...
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Abenake aborigine acres Alger ancient Bagnall Black Point Blue Point Boaden Bonython Boston built cabin Cabot Cammock Cammock's Neck Cape Elizabeth Captain Casco Bay Casco Neck Champlain church Cleeve and Tucker Cleeve's coast colony court Creek doubtless Drogeo Dunstan eastward England English Ferry fire fishing garrison Gorges Gorges patents grant Hakluyt hath haue Henry Jocelyn hither House Island Indian interest Isles of Shoals John Winter Kittery land later letter Levett lived located Lygonia Mackworth Maine Maine province marshes Massachusetts miles mill mouth Nature occupancy once Owascoag patent Pemaquid perhaps Piscataqua Pond Prout's Neck province Puritan Richard Vines Richmond's Island Rigby Robert Jordan Rocks romance rude Saco River sailed sands savages says Scarborough Scottow settlement settlers ship shore smokes Sokoki Sokoki Trail Spurwink story tide tion Trelawny verdure voyage waters wild winds Winnock's Neck Winter Harbor Winthrop woods
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Page 273 - Were I the Moor, I would not be lago : In following him, I follow but myself ; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Page 124 - The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon. Slow tracing down the thickening sky Its mute and ominous prophecy, A portent seeming less than threat, It sank from sight before it set. A chill no coat, however stout, Of homespun stuff could quite shut out, A hard, dull bitterness of cold, That checked, mid-vein, the circling race Of life-blood in the sharpened face, The coming of the snow-storm told.
Page 71 - T was one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow; The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow; It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover-farm; Or west, no thunder fear.
Page 67 - Country men, let not the meannesse of the word fish distaste you, for it will afford as good gold as the Mines of Guiana or Potassie, with lesse hazard and charge, and more certainty and facility.
Page 87 - tis like a camel, indeed. HAMLET. Methinks it is like a weasel. POLONIUS. It is backed like a weasel. HAMLET. Or like a whale? POLONIUS. Very like a whale.
Page 247 - I tell thee, gold is more plentiful there than copper is with us; and for as much red copper as I can bring, I'll have thrice the weight in gold. Why, man, all their...
Page 252 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 184 - Having well spent the day, we returned to the shallop, almost all the women accompanying us, to truck, who sold their coats from their backs, and tied boughs about them, but with great shamefacedness (for indeed they are more modest than some of our English women are) we promised them to come again to them, and they us, to keep their skins.
Page 409 - Flood, as may be conceived by a story they have received from Father to Son, time out of mind, that a great while agon their Countrey was drowned, and all the People and other Creatures in it, only one Powaw and his Webb foreseeing the Floud fled to the white mountains, carrying a hare along with them, and so escaped; after a while the Powaw sent the Hare away, who not returning, emboldened thereby they descended, and lived many years after, and had many Children, from whom the Countrie was filled...