. Maine in history and romance. returning to y^ eastern parts he sent to the starvingcolonists a goodly quantity of provisions, consisting of bread material(probably ground corn) enough to keep each one of the Pilgrims fromstarvation until the next harvest. Thus, by the hand of the famoussavage chief of Pemaquid, was kept alive the flickering spark of lifeamong the Pilgrims. Was not the Plymouth colony saved by the Pema-quid colony? Was not the spirit of this great humane act of our ven-erable sagamore based on the same principle of humanity that is to-daylending the helping hand to the distre
. Maine in history and romance. returning to y^ eastern parts he sent to the starvingcolonists a goodly quantity of provisions, consisting of bread material(probably ground corn) enough to keep each one of the Pilgrims fromstarvation until the next harvest. Thus, by the hand of the famoussavage chief of Pemaquid, was kept alive the flickering spark of lifeamong the Pilgrims. Was not the Plymouth colony saved by the Pema-quid colony? Was not the spirit of this great humane act of our ven-erable sagamore based on the same principle of humanity that is to-daylending the helping hand to the distressed, starving Belgians? Just where the seat of Samosets government was in those days isnot definitely known, but it is probable that the old Sagamore had hisclustered wigwams on the shores of the town of Bristol. Traditionnames a cove ten miles along the coast from the point of the headlandas Samoset Cove, and tradition also tells us that Samoset sold thislong stretch of land in the summer of 1625 to one Brozvn, a planter who. In the old Burying Ground Ancient Bristol 221 had been here long enough to have made friends with the Indians andwho was known among them as John Brown. He so got into the goodgraces of the Sagamore Samoset as to obtain the following deed whichmay be considered the earliest of its kind in America. The followingis an exact copy: To All People whom it may concern. Know ye, that I, CaptainJohn Somerset and Unongoit, Indian Sagamores, thay being the properheirs to all lands on both sides of the Muscongus River, have bargainedand sould to John Brown of New Harbour, this certain tract or parcellof land, as followeth, that is to say, beginning at Pemaquid Falls and sorunning a direct course to the head of New Harbour, from thence to theSouth End of Muscongus Island, taking in the island, and so runningfive and twenty miles into the Country north and by east, and thenceeight miles northwest and by west, and then turning and running southand by west, to Pemaquid,
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