History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . rmist,—-a dissenter from the doctrinesand rites of the Established Church. Now, the Massachu-setts Bay Company was composed principally of Puritans;hence that company found less difficulty in robbing Gorgesof his rights than it would have found had the companyand Gorges both been Puritans or Episcopalians; and hadthe religious views of both been the reverse of whatthey were, I have no idea that Gorges would have beendisturbed by that company. I think this is evident fromthe f
History of York County, Maine With illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers . rmist,—-a dissenter from the doctrinesand rites of the Established Church. Now, the Massachu-setts Bay Company was composed principally of Puritans;hence that company found less difficulty in robbing Gorgesof his rights than it would have found had the companyand Gorges both been Puritans or Episcopalians; and hadthe religious views of both been the reverse of whatthey were, I have no idea that Gorges would have beendisturbed by that company. I think this is evident fromthe f:\ct that in 1660, on the accession of Charles II. (arigid Episcopalian) to the throne of England, the grandsonof Gorges, who succeeded to his grandsires estates, askedof this king a restoration to him of his rights. The kingappointed commissioners, who came to this town in 1665,and, after examining the charters and claims of both par-ties, on the 23d of June of that year issued their procla-mation prohibiting both parties from exercising authority,and took the whole province under the protection of the. TOWN OF YORK. 219 crown. Without going into further detail as to what sub-sequently occurred, suffice it to say that after twenty-twolong, weary years of waiting, the king, in 1675, confirmedthe title to the grandson of Gorges, both as to soil andcivil and religious government. History says, Thus aftera long struggle the Gorges heirs had confirmed to them therights for which they so long contended. But the Massachusetts Bay Company, with that obsti-nacy of purpose characteristic of Puritan stock, deter-mined against defeat, now resorted to other means wherebyit might effect a recovery of what it had so ignobly wonand so justly lost. On hearing of the kings decision, itsent an agent to England to treat with the heir of Sir Fer-dinando for the purchase of his rights, and finally, inMarch, 1677, he, the unworthy grandson of a worthygrandsire, for a paltry sum, much less than the
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