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The History of Manchester, Formerly Derryfield, in New Hampshire

The History of Manchester, Formerly Derryfield, in New Hampshire PDF Author: Chandler Eastman Potter
Publisher: General Books
ISBN: 9781458920485
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Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Origin of the settlement of New Hampshire, and Maine.?Sir Fcrdinando Gorges.?Capt. John Mason.?The Council established at Plymouth.?Mariana. ?Laconia.?Thomson.?Hilton.?Odiorne's Point.?Dover Neck.?Flake Hill.?Mason Hall, its site.?Sir Henry Roswell.?Massachusetts Bay.?Col- cord.?Passaconnaway.?Rev. John Wheelwright.?Grant of New Hamp- hire.?Hilton's Patent.?Piscataqua Patent.?Accession of colonists.?Danes. ?Reniild Fernald, chirurgeon. Gorges and Mason become sole proprietors.?They divide their possessions.?The manor of Mason Hall. Sir Ferdinando Gorges was one of the most zealous advocates for American colonization. He engaged in various enterprises for discovery in the New World, and fitted out ships at his own expense, for traffic with the natives, or for the equally laudable object of testing the capacities, and climate of America. He was a man of a lively imagination, warm temperament, great energy and perseverance of character, and from services rendered the government, of much influence at Court. He had been attached to the navy, and after the peace of 1604, was appointed governor of the fort of Plymouth in Devonshire. The fact that three of the natives seized by Weymouth? were received into the family of Gorges and were supported by him for two or three years, bespeaks the generosity of his character, and the great interest he took in the affairs of the New World. To the favorable accounts of these natives, coupled with the desire of family aggrandizement, are to be attributed the determined energy and enterprise, with which he prosecuted his design of planting a colony in New England. He had exhibited so much zeal, and had been so assiduous in asking a charter from the King, that when the enlarged patent was granted to the Duke of Lenox?the Marquis...
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