The beginnings of colonial Maine, 1602-1658 . , situated between the Ken-nebec and the Penobscot rivers. A fourth division, extendingfrom the Penobscot eastward as far as the St. Croix river, wasclaimed by the French as included within their territorial to this claim occur in some of the preceding claim itself reappears in the commission bestowed uponAulnay by LoUis XIV in February, 1647, the western boundaryof Firance upon the Atlantic coast being carried in that commis-sion as much and as far as can be as far as the Virginias.^ Atthat time the word Virginias wa
The beginnings of colonial Maine, 1602-1658 . , situated between the Ken-nebec and the Penobscot rivers. A fourth division, extendingfrom the Penobscot eastward as far as the St. Croix river, wasclaimed by the French as included within their territorial to this claim occur in some of the preceding claim itself reappears in the commission bestowed uponAulnay by LoUis XIV in February, 1647, the western boundaryof Firance upon the Atlantic coast being carried in that commis-sion as much and as far as can be as far as the Virginias.^ Atthat time the word Virginias was used as a designation of NewEngland, and Virginias doubtless had that signification inAulnays commission. The rightfulness of the French claim wasdenied in England and by the English colonists on the Americancoast, and the determination to maintain Englands right to theterritory in dispute found frequent and forceful expression as hasalready appeared. When the first half of the seventeenth century drew to a close, * Farnham Papers, I, o M f1 H OJ R s ffl ?J P4 o « O <! w T-l ^ C n M ri T3 <A tn U ;-< V[ t« •o u ?< J3 w q CO b •^ cq ja () H ja CO ^ MASSACHUSETTS CIvAIMS MAINE TERRITORY. 357 however, neither England nor the English colonists on the Atlan-tic seaboard were in a condition to maintain their territorialclaims in opposition to the claims of France. The attempt toestablish in England a new form of government, to take the placeof that under which the people of England hath hitherto lived,was a work that was pressing and demanded the strongest possible -deavors on the part of those upon whom the arduous task nowfell. The claim of England in opposition to the claim of France,however, was not yielded, but matters pertaining to territorialrights were for the present held in abeyance. In the first three of these territorial divisions there was growthin the half century, but it was slow. Help that should havecome to the colonists was not received. Go
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