[642] [Governor Bell discovered in 1870 what is known as the Hilton or Squamscott patent, of March 12, 1629, and it is printed in the N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1870, p. 264; it was found not to agree as to its bounds with Piscataqua patent. Jenness, in his Notes, contends that Wiggin set up the title of Massachusetts to the territory under the 1628/29 charter. It was the conclusion of Mr. C. W. Tuttle (a studious explorer of New Hampshire history, who died July 18, 1881; cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., xix. 2, 11) that Bloody Point, being included in both grants, became the cause of the trouble between Neale and Wiggin, as told by Hubbard.—Ed.]
[643] Mason’s will, or a long extract from it, may be seen in Hazard, i. 397-399, dated Nov. 26, 1635; also in Provincial Papers. These papers last named are a publication of the State. The Rev. Dr. Nathaniel Bouton, between 1867 and 1876, completed ten volumes of Papers. They contain nothing before 1631; few from 1631 to 1686. Most of the original papers between 1641 and 1679 are in the Massachusetts Archives. The papers of interest in the present connection are in vols. i. and ii. The series has since been resumed under another editor, with the publication (1882) of the first part (A to F) of documents relating to towns, 1680-1800. Very few of the papers, however, are before 1700. Colonel A. H. Hoyt’s “Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Laws of New Hampshire,” are in Amer. Antiq. Soc. Proc., April, 1876. Like most of the patents issued at the grand division, Mason’s grant included ten thousand acres more of land on the southeast part of Sagadahoc, “from henceforth to be called by the name of Massonia.”
[644] [John Farmer (1789-1838) and Jacob B. Moore (1797-1853). Each did much for New Hampshire history. For an account of Farmer, see N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., i. 12, 15. He published a first volume (Dover, 1831) of a projected new edition of Belknap’s History of New Hampshire, from a copy “having the author’s last corrections.” Moore was the father of the well-known historical student, Dr. George H. Moore, of the Lenox Library.—Ed.]
[645] [Cf. C. K. Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, p. 549. Mention has been made elsewhere of the Belknap Papers; cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., March, 1858.—Ed.]
[646] [The reports of the Adjutant-General of the State, 1866 and 1868, contained Mr. Chandler E. Potter’s Military History of New Hampshire, from 1623 to 1861, issued separately at Concord in 1869. The histories by Whiton (1834) and Barstow (1853) are of minor importance.] There are many valuable histories of separate towns in New Hampshire, and I cannot do better than refer to the “Bibliography of New Hampshire,” in Norton’s Literary Letter, new series, no. i. pp. 8-30, by S. C. Eastman. [A current periodical, The Granite Monthly, is devoting much space to New Hampshire history; cf. Sabin, vol. xiii. no. 37,486, etc.—Ed.]
[647] J. Hammond Trumbull, in Conn. Hist. Soc. Coll., ii. 8. [Dr. Trumbull has compassed a large part of the field of the Indian nomenclature of Connecticut in his Indian Names of Places: ... in Connecticut, etc., Hartford, 1881. The fortunes of the natives of this colony have been traced in J. W. De Forest’s History of the Indians of Connecticut (with a map of 1630), of which there have been successive editions in 1850, 1853, and 1871. Of Uncas, the most famous of the Mohegan chiefs, there is a pedigree, as made out in 1679, recorded in the Colony Records, Deeds, iii. 312, and printed in N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Reg., 1856, p. 227. The will of his son Joshua is in Ibid., 1859, p. 235. An agreement which Uncas made in 1681 with the whites is in the Public Records, i. 309, and in Mass. Hist. Soc. Proc., x. 16. The warfare in 1642 between Uncas and Miantonomo, the chief of the Narragansetts, and which ended with the latter’s death in captivity, the English approving, is described by Winthrop and Hubbard; also in Trumbull’s Connecticut, chap. 7; Arnold’s Rhode Island, chap. 4; Palfrey’s New England, vol. ii. chap. 3; and it was the subject of an historical address in 1842 by William L. Stone, called Uncas and Miantonomo.—Ed.]
[648] Massachusetts Colonial Records, i. 170.
[649] See Connecticut Colonial Records, i. 4.
[650] J. Hammond Trumbull, as above, p. 15.
[651] New Haven Records.