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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97348	A narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New-England, from the first planting thereof in the year 1607, to this present year 1677, but chiefly of the late troubles in the two last years, 1675 and 1676. To which is added a discourse about the warre with the Pequods in the year 1637. / By W. Hubbard ...; Narrative of the Indian wars in New-England	Hubbard, William, 1621 or 2-1704.	1677 (1677)	Wing H3211_pt2; ESTC W13814	83,110	93

demonstrate by giving a little touch as we pass along on the several changes of Government the places forementioned have been moulded into the several Proprietours of have claimed Interest in the Land In the year 1624. A Patent was granted by the Councel of Plimouth the grand Proprietours to Captain Mason for a large Tract of Land about Pascataqua but it not being distinctly bounded himself with Sir Ferdinando Gorges obtayned a joynt Patent in the year 1629. for the Land betwixt Saga de-Hock East Naum Keag West but that also interferring with the Bounds ganted before that time to sundry Gentlemen Merchants that had obtained a Patent from the South of Charles River to the Northward of Merrimack Capt. Masons bounds were afterwards by Consent as is said of his Agent or Agents reduced to some Branches about Pascataqua River who yet could not agree with those that acted in the Name of Shrewsbury men but being wholly neglected by the pretended Proprietour or his Successours till of late dayes was by the desire of the Inhabitants yielded up to the Massachusets Government near twenty years since In the year 1630. A Patent was granted by the said Councel of Plimouth signed by the Earl of Warwick and Sir Ferdinando Gorgeri and sealed with the common Seal of the Councel aforesaid to John Dy Thomas Impe Grace Harding and John Roach of London for a large Tract of Land on the South of Saga-de Hock forty mile square by the Sea side and so up into the Country John Dy afore said and his Partners took in another as Partner and Associate with them Mr. Richard Dummer of Newbury in New-England in the year 1638. to whom they delivered the Oreginal Patent with an order from them and in their Name to take up the Land described in the Patent but he being denyed opportunity to Effect it as also a Ship formerly sent by the Patentees for that End not accomplishing their desire they not long after sold all their Interest in the said Patent to one Mr. Rigby a Lancashire Gentleman who made Mr. Cleaves his Agent to manage the business of his purchased Interest in the said Patent To whom Mr. Dummer was ordered to deliver the Original Patent which accordingly he did what trouble was occasioned soon after between the said Mr. Cleaves and Mr. Vines Agent for Sir Ferdinando Gorges is well known to the Inhabitants of the place and need not be here mentioned nor yet how the said Mr. Rigby came afterward to loose his Interest at least with the Inhabitants in the Patent In the year 1632. Sir Ferdinando Gorges not resting in the joynt Patent obtained for himself and Capt. Mason obtained a distinct Patent for himself and got it confirmed by King Charles the first of blessed and famous memory for all that large Tract of Land from Saga-de-hock to Pascataqua River and so about an hundred miles up into the Country by the Name of the Province of Maine What benefit and Improvement was ever made thereof by his Agents or Successours is best known to themselves But for the Inhabitants who upon one account or another had been induced either by any precedaneous grant or liberty from himself or his Agents to take up any Land within the Bounds of the said Province They finding much inconvenience and trouble for want of an orderly and setled Government did at the last petition the general Court of the Massachusets to be taken under their Jurisdiction and Government reserving the Liberties and Priviledges of their former purchases and Grants as to Title possession and propriety to themselves which was granted them though not only and altogether upon the grounds on which it was desired by the Petitioners Yet notwithstanding all this were not things setled either to the comfort or content of the Inhabitants for sometimes some demanded Right of Jurisdiction over them by virtue of Sir Ferdinando's Patent sometimes Commissioners imployed by his Highness the Duke of York attempted to settle a Government amongst the people sometimes they tryed what might be done by Agreement amongst themselves but after their Returne for England by one means or other the Government relapsed again into the hands of the Massachusets although a Supersedeas thereunto seems to have been put by an order from his Majesty this last year By these several Vic●ssitudes and changes of Government the flourishing of the said Province hath been much obstructed which else might have been much advanced and the Inhabitants been put into a Capacity to have secured themselves against the late Barbarous Incursions of the Indians and possibly those Exorbitancies that many of the present Proprietours have run into to the just provocation of the Indians might thereby have been prevented and so the mischief also which hath ensued might thereby have been averted For a well ordered Government would never have suffered those things that now were connived at which if they had been timely lookt into by such as had absolute or positive and unquestioned power of Rule in their hands would have been otherwise ordered the present mischief that is come upon those places might thereby have been if not prevented yet more easily redressed then now is like to be As for the Tract of Land that lies Eastward beyond Kennibeck betwixt that and Pemmaquid it is said to have belonged to one Mr. Aldworth and his Successours who was Alderman of Bristol and one that had a Patent thereof and imployed some as his Agents that did sometimes reside upon the place And was lately setled in some order of Government by his Highness the Duke of Yorks Commissioners by whom also was an Agreement made betwixt the Sagamores of the Indians in those parts and the English at a Court kept by their Appointment in Kennibeck which if it had been observed might in all probability have prevented in great measure the quarrel which is now fallen out betwixt the English and the said Indians For upon some Jealousies of the Rising of those Indians about twelve or thirteen years since it was agreed that if any mischief should happen to be done by the English or Indians one against another though it were to the killing any person neither side should right themselves but complaint should be made to the Sagamores if the Indians did the wrong and to the Court if it were done by the English Both which did promise satisfaction should be made for the preventing any quarrel The Names of the Sachems as likewise of them that were in power at the Court do stil remain upon publick Record But matters of Government in those parts being since collapsed no Authority more then what was meerly voluntary and perswasive being owned Things are now brought to that miserable state which follows next to be declared Ever since the first setling of any English Plantation in those parts about Kennibeck for the space of above fifty years the Indians alwayes carryed it fair and held good Correspondence with the English until the