. The student's American history . ed which remained in force until the outbreak of theRevolution. V. New Hampshire (1623). 104. Grant of territory; first settlements. — Two yearsafter the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, Sir FerdinandoGorges and Captain John Mason of England obtained a grant(1622) of the country between the Merrimac and the Kennebec ^ Their territory extended tothe farthest head of the said rivers andsixty miles inland. The new provincewas to receive the name of Maine. Afew months later, David Thomson, aScotchman, got possession of a smallsection of land on the Pisca
. The student's American history . ed which remained in force until the outbreak of theRevolution. V. New Hampshire (1623). 104. Grant of territory; first settlements. — Two yearsafter the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, Sir FerdinandoGorges and Captain John Mason of England obtained a grant(1622) of the country between the Merrimac and the Kennebec ^ Their territory extended tothe farthest head of the said rivers andsixty miles inland. The new provincewas to receive the name of Maine. Afew months later, David Thomson, aScotchman, got possession of a smallsection of land on the Piscataqua, andestablished a fishing-station (1623) nearthe mouth of that river. He soonmoved to the vicinity of Boston ; but thesettlement he had formed on the Pisca-taqua seems to have been maintained.^°*Several years later (1627) Edward Hilton came over fromEngland and set up a second fishing-station at what is nowDover. Not long afterward (1629) Gorges and Mason built afort for carrying on the fur trade. The three founded Ports-. 1625-.] ENGLISH AND FRENCH SETTLEMENTS. 8/ mouth on one of the noblest harbors of the New Englandcoast. When (1638) the Reverend John Wheelwright wasbanished from Massachusetts for heresy (§ 92) he began thesettlement of Exeter. 105. Gorges and Mason divide their territory into Maineand New Hampshire. — Gorges and Mason (1629-1634)divided their ^ Gorges took the part east of thePiscataqua or Maine, while Mason took that between thePiscataqua and the Merrimac. This region he called NewHampshire,—from the county of Hampshire, England, wherehe had once held an important office. An attempt had been made by Sir George Popham to estab-lish a colony of that name at the mouth of the Kennebec in1607 ; but it was unsuccessful. Maine was planted by smallsettlements, and hence presented only scattered first permanent one was made (1625) on the rocky prom-ontory of Pemaquid, east of Bath. It promised so well that itreceived the name
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