. The New England magazine . A Camp in xhe Woods. THE STATE OF MAINE. 551. The Penobscot Nea by the fishermen on the coast, is uncer-tain. The first organized government ineither of these provinces was establishedin 1636 by Sir Ferdinando Gorges, forhis province of Maine, with his nephew,WilHam Gorges, as governor. Up to thattime only a local magistracy for the differ-ent settlements had existed, and this wasall that continued at Pemaquid andSheepscot, the only organized settlementsin the province of Sagadahoc, up to French province east of the Penob-scot had no settlements, beyond th
. The New England magazine . A Camp in xhe Woods. THE STATE OF MAINE. 551. The Penobscot Nea by the fishermen on the coast, is uncer-tain. The first organized government ineither of these provinces was establishedin 1636 by Sir Ferdinando Gorges, forhis province of Maine, with his nephew,WilHam Gorges, as governor. Up to thattime only a local magistracy for the differ-ent settlements had existed, and this wasall that continued at Pemaquid andSheepscot, the only organized settlementsin the province of Sagadahoc, up to French province east of the Penob-scot had no settlements, beyond thetrading post at Castine. In 1642 SirFerdinando Gorges, ambitious for thefame of his new province, made Aga-menticus (York) the capital, changed itsname to Ciorgeana, and gave it a citycharter, thus making it the first charteredcity in the United States. In 1647, SirFerdinando died in Fngland, at the ageof 74, without ever having seen the shoresof Maine, which he had done so much tocolonize. Gorges government for the provinceof Maine continued only five years afterhis d
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