The Maine historical and genealogical recorder . ten passengers from came with a patent to Sagadahock, but, notliking the place, they came hither. These were thecompany called the Husbandmen, and their shipAm* of Stephen Bachiier, called the We are here first introduced Pastor of Plough Colony. ° From Morgans sphere to a body of emigrants constituting: the advance of Gentry, JO o pubushed^Lfnd^nieei. guard of a society of religious fanatics who intended 67 Winthrop, Journal, 3d edition, i. 69; comp. Hubbard, New England, 141, 142. There was aship called the Plough, 160 to
The Maine historical and genealogical recorder . ten passengers from came with a patent to Sagadahock, but, notliking the place, they came hither. These were thecompany called the Husbandmen, and their shipAm* of Stephen Bachiier, called the We are here first introduced Pastor of Plough Colony. ° From Morgans sphere to a body of emigrants constituting: the advance of Gentry, JO o pubushed^Lfnd^nieei. guard of a society of religious fanatics who intended 67 Winthrop, Journal, 3d edition, i. 69; comp. Hubbard, New England, 141, 142. There was aship called the Plough, 160 tons, owned in 1627 by James, Earl of Carlisle, and afterward sold (1628)to Captain Thomas Combes and Morrice Thompson, who were granted letters of marque that next year (12 Nov. 1629), William Cock, master of the Plough of London, relates the circum-stances of the capture of the Island of St. Christophers by a large Spanish fleet. (Calendar,Domestic State Papers, 1627-1629.) The Plough which carried the Husbandmen left Boston for St. 5. 66 Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder. to establish a colony on the new English shores where they hopedto be freed from the persecutions which had followed them athome. This Company of Husbandmen brought with them apatent from the Council for New England, dated 26 June, 1630,58which granted unto Bryan Bincks, John Dye, John Smith, ThomasJupe, John Crispe, and their associates, a tract of land forty The location and extent of this grant were never dis-tinctly understood, and from the first the indefinite terms anddescription became frequent sources of controversy and misunder-standing between the grantors and grantees of the patent. Thepartners remaining in London wrote under date of 8 March, 1631-2to the colonists as follows: We gaue you nottes by Mr. Allertun,00 and wee hope you hauelong since receued it, that wee haue had much ado abought ourpatten, and that there was one Bradshaw that had proquired letters Chri
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