[636] Special mention should perhaps be made of the enumeration of Maine titles in the Brinley Catalogue no. 2,571, etc., and of several town histories published since Mr. Willis wrote his Catalogue, which in their treatment go back to the early period, namely, History of Augusta, by James W. North; History of Brunswick, etc., by G. A. Wheeler and H. W. Wheeler, 1878; History of Castine, by G. A. Wheeler, Bangor, 1875; History of Bristol, Bremen, and Pemaquid, by John Johnston, Albany, 1873; History of Ancient Sheepscot and New Castle, by David Q. Cushman, Bath, 1882. Most of the local historical literature can be picked out of F. B. Perkins’s Check-List of American Local History.
A volume entitled Papers relating to Pemaquid, collected from the archives at Albany by Franklin B. Hough, was printed at Albany in 1856. They relate to the condition of that part of the country when under the colony of New York, and are of great value. Cf. also Mr. Hough’s contributions in the Maine Hist. Coll., v. and vii. 127. Pemaquid as a centre of historical interest is also illustrated in J. W. Thornton’s Ancient Pemaquid; in Johnston’s papers in his History of Bristol, etc.; in the Popham Memorial Volume, p. 263; in Maine Hist. Coll., vol. viii.; Vinton’s Giles Memorial, 1864; Historical Magazine, i. 132; N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1871, p. 131. [See also Vol. IV. of this History.—Ed.]
[637] [The early history of this society is told by Mr. Willis in an address printed in their Collections, vol. iv. Cf. also Note B at the end of chapter vi. of the present volume.—Ed.]
[638] This collection, entitled America painted to the Life, passes by the name of the Gorges Tracts. There are copies in Harvard College Library, and noted in the Carter-Brown Catalogue, ii. 127; Brinley Catalogue, nos. 308, 2,640 ($225.) Cf. Sabin’s Dictionary, vii. 348; Rich’s Catalogue, no. 314; Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xviii. 432, and xix. 128; Stevens’s Historical Collections, vol. i. no. 247. The relations of Gorges and Champernoun are discussed by C. W. Tuttle in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1874, p. 404. See further on Champernoun in Ibid., 1873, p. 147; 1874, pp. 75, 318, 403. There is an account of Gorges’ tomb at St. Bordeaux in the Magazine of American History, August, 1882; and notes on his pedigree, in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1861, p. 17; 1864, p. 287; 1872, p. 381; 1877, pp. 42, 44, 112.—Ed.
[639] [Captain Christopher Levett. His account was published in London in 1628. The reprint in 3 Mass. Hist. Coll., viii. 164, was made from a copy got in England by Sparks. The Maine Historical Society reprinted it in their Collections, ii. 73 (1847); and the copy in the New York Historical Society’s Library was then considered to be unique. The Huth Catalogue, iii. 843, and Carter-Brown Catalogue, ii. no. 338, show original copies.—Ed.]
[640] [The principal contestants may be thus divided:—
Pro,—New Hampshire Historical Collections, i.; Bell’s Wheelwright; cf. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1869, p. 65.
Con,—Farmer’s Belknap; Savage’s Winthrop; Palfrey’s New England; and, besides Mr. Deane, the recorded opinions of Dr. Bouton, Mr. C. W. Tuttle, Mr. J. A. Vinton; cf. N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1868, p. 479; 1874, pp. 343, 477; and Historical Magazine, i. 57; and also a letter of Colonel Chester in the Register, 1868, p. 350.
The deed is printed in the Provincial Papers, i. 56. Cotton Mather’s original letter regarding it, dated March 3, 1708, is noted in the Brinley Catalogue, no. 1,329. Belknap has printed it, and it is also in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1862, p. 349.—Ed.]
[641] Mason made no use of this grant; and no use had been made of his grant of Mariana, of March 9, 1621/22, and that to him and Gorges of Aug. 10, 1622; Hubbard’s New England, p. 614.