The beginnings of colonial Maine, 1602-1658 . ber of the council for New England when the grant wasmade. ^ He died at his residence, Ashton Phillips, in a suburb of Bristol. Hiswill bears the date of May 4th, 1647, and the date of his burial in the churchat Long Ashton, a few rods from his residence called Ashton Phillips, is the14th. Baxter, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, I, 196. I#ewis Upton Way, in apaper on 7/4i? Smyths of Ashton Court, Transactions of the Bristol andGloucestershire Archaeological Society, XXXI, 255, says, Sir Ferdinando[Gorges] died in May, 1647, and his widow in 1658, both being
The beginnings of colonial Maine, 1602-1658 . ber of the council for New England when the grant wasmade. ^ He died at his residence, Ashton Phillips, in a suburb of Bristol. Hiswill bears the date of May 4th, 1647, and the date of his burial in the churchat Long Ashton, a few rods from his residence called Ashton Phillips, is the14th. Baxter, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, I, 196. I#ewis Upton Way, in apaper on 7/4i? Smyths of Ashton Court, Transactions of the Bristol andGloucestershire Archaeological Society, XXXI, 255, says, Sir Ferdinando[Gorges] died in May, 1647, and his widow in 1658, both being buried in theSmyth vault at Long Ashton. Ashton Court is still in the possession ofthe Smyth family, and the large, attractive mansion, with its beautiful gar-dens, extensive grounds, and doubtless fine old trees as to-day, must havebeen a familiar place to Sir Ferdinando Gorges. The widow of Sir HughSmyth was Gorges last wife, and a portrait of her continues to adorn thewalls of Ashton Court. The mansion was erected by Inigo Jones in CLEBVE SECURES AN ALLY. 341 Bellingliam. In the selection of assistants necessary for theproper administration of the affairs of the province, Cleeves moststrenuous opponents were not overlooked. Unhappily only a fewof the early records of the province have come down to us, andwe are unable to tell with any fulness the story of the establish-ment of generally recognized authority and order within the pro-vincial limits. Among these records,^ however, in a report of acourt held at Black Point on the last of May, 1648, signed bythe three judges of the Province of I^ygonia—George Cleeve,Henry Josselyn and Robert Jordan,—there is furnished an illustra-tion of the new order of things that followed the establishment ofRigbys claim. The decree of Parliament was accepted at leastfor the present; and the inhabitants of the province, howeverdivided hitherto, worked together in harmonious relations, seek-ing the common weal. All that now remained
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