[531] Yet it should be mentioned here that the grant to the Marquis, afterward Duke, of Hamilton of land between the Connecticut River and Narragansett, which lay dormant during his life, was claimed by his heirs at the Restoration, and at a later period, but was not allowed. The grant to the Earl of Sterling, between St. Croix and Sagadahoc, was in 1663 sold by his heir to Lord Clarendon, and a charter for it was granted next year to the Duke of York.
[532] Palfrey’s History of New England, ii. 51-56.
[533] Ibid. pp 57, 403-405; Transactions of the American Antiquarian Society, iii. 281-300.
[534] [See chap. x. of the present volume, and chap. x. of Vol. IV.—Ed.]
[535] See chapter x.
[536] Hilton’s Point (Dover) about the year 1640 was called North-ham, in compliment to Thomas Larkham, who in that year arrived there from North-ham in England. Wiggin was governor here five years, George Burdett two, John Underhill three, and Thomas Roberts one.
[537] It is by virtue of this agreement that the lands are still held.
[538] [The so-called Endicott Rock, with its inscription dated 1652, fixed the northern limits of New Hampshire at the headwaters of the Merrimac River, and as part of Massachusetts. Cf. Granite Monthly, v. 224; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., i. 311; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xviii. 400; New Hampshire Historical Collections, iv. 194.—Ed.]
[539] Bacon, quoted by Palfrey, i. 535, 536.
[540] [What purported to be a portrait of Haynes appeared in C. W. Elliott’s History of New England; but it was later proved to be a likeness of Fitz John Winthrop, and the plate was withdrawn. Cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xii. 213.—Ed.]