[245]. Haven, Lowell Lectures, p. 154; Adams, Three Episodes, vol. I, p. 144; Hazard, Historical Collections, vol. I, p. 391. In regard to the settlement by Thompson, we have documentary evidence in New Hampshire State Papers, vol. XXV, pp. 715, 734; but there is no such proof of the traditionary settlement by Hilton, until 1628, although it is accepted by the earlier historians. Cf. W. H. Fry, New Hampshire as a Royal Province (New York, 1908), pp. 18, 32. Also, J. G. Jenness, Notes on the First Planting of New Hampshire (Portsmouth, 1878), pp. 4, 14 ff.
[246]. Burrage, Colonial Maine, pp. 169-75; J. P. Baxter, Christopher Levett of York, Gorges Society, Portland, 1893; Bradford, Plymouth, p. 154.
[247]. J. W. Thornton, The Landing at Cape Anne (Boston, 1854), pp. 31 ff.
[248]. Smith, Works, vol. II, p. 783; Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 168, f.; John White, The Planter's Plea (Force Tracts, Washington, 1838), vol. II, pp. 38 ff.; Wm. Hubbard, History of New England (Cambridge, 1815), pp. 102 ff.
[249]. J. Winsor, Memorial History, vol. I, pp. 78, 83; C. F. Adams, “Old Planters about Boston Harbor,” Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, Series I, vol. XVI, p. 206.
[250]. Burrage, Colonial Maine, pp. 78, 83.
[251]. Ibid., pp. 183, 199.
[252]. Bradford, Plymouth, pp. 237 ff.; Morton, New English Canaan (Force Tracts), vol. II, 89 ff.
[253]. The colony numbered about 85. The newcomers were 35, and Bradford says (Plymouth, p. 112), “the most of this new-company” were guilty of the attempt.
[254]. Bradford, Plymouth, p. 385.