[628] These manuscripts were made use of by Dr. Belknap in writing his History of New Hampshire, and are now all printed in the Provincial Papers of that State, vol. i., 1867, edited by the late Nathaniel Bouton.
The grant of Aug. 10, 1622, is printed in Poor’s Ferdinando Gorges, from the Colonial Entry Book, p. 101, no. 59. An account of the voyage of the barque “Warwick,” in 1630, which brought Captain Neal to be governor for the Company, is given in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1867, p. 223.
[629] Citations are made from them by Folsom in his History of Saco and Biddeford, pp. 49-52. The original manuscript is among the old county of York records at Alfred. The commission to Sir Ferdinando Gorges as governor of New England, 1637, is printed in Poor’s Gorges, p. 127. For his deed to Edgecombe, 1637, see Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., ii. 74.
[630] See Massachusetts Archives, Miscellanies, i. 130.
[631] These old Maine records have all been removed to the county town of Alfred, and they have never been printed. Extracts from time to time have been published, as by Folsom above, and by Willis in vol. i. of his History of Portland, who gives a description, from Judge David Sewall, of the manner in which the original records were made and kept. The charter of incorporation of Acomenticus as a town, April 10, 1641, and the charter of Gorgeana as a city, March 1, 1642, were among the papers which Hazard found at old York, and printed in his Collection, vol. i. Cf. “Sir Robert Carr in Maine,” in Magazine of American History, September, 1882, p. 623; and a paper on Gorgeana in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1881, p. 42.
[632] [Cf. Historical Magazine, ii. 286, and Note B to chapter vi. of the present volume.—Ed.]
[633] [Mr. Somerby, a native of Massachusetts, who died in London in 1872, did much during a long sojourn in England to further the interests of American antiquaries and genealogists. Cf. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1874, p. 340. Colonel Joseph L. Chester also for many years filled a prominent place in similar work in England, till his death in 1882. A portrait and notice of him by John T. Latting is in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1882; also issued separately: Cf. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., January, 1883, p. 106.—Ed.]
[634] [The deed to Usher as agent of Massachusetts, in 1677, and his conveyance to Massachusetts are at the State House in Boston. Cf. Maine Hist. Coll., ii. 257; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xi. 201.—Ed.]
[635] Mr. Folsom, a graduate of Harvard in 1822, was at this time living in Saco. He subsequently removed to New York, became an active member of the New York Historical Society, was minister at the Hague, and died in Rome, Italy, in 1869.