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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
Sullivan's History; and far better in the elaborate and most minute work of Williamson. I have also derived advantage from Geo. Folsom's Saco and Biddeford, and W. Willis's Portland. Williamson, i. 227, describes Saco as a permanent settlement in 1623; I incline rather to the opinion of Willis and Folsom. The first settlement wasWillis and Folsom. The first settlement was probably 1626 made on the Maine, but a few miles from Monhegan, at the mouth of the Pemaquid. The first observers could not but admire the noble rivers and secure bays, which invited commerce, and gave the promise of future opulence; but if hamlets were soon planted near the mouths of the streams; if forts were erected to protethe proprietaries; since furs might be Chap IX.} gathered and fish taken without the payment of quitrents or the purchase of lands. Hubbard's Narrative, 204. Willis, 13. 17, &c. Folsom, 318, &c. Williamson, i.237, and ff. Gorges, 48, 49. Yet a pride of character sustained in Gorges an 1635 Feb. 3. unbending hope; and he