History of the United States . lost over a thousand men, together with a number of women and children. Nearly half of all their towns had been attacked and twelve totally destroyed. A great war debt had also been contracted. 34. Massachusetts Claims Settlements inMaine and New Hampshire.—In addition to ^—^; »-^->the feeling of irritation aroused in the mindof Charles II by the protection afforded the judges who hadcondemned his father, the king found other cause for com-plaint, especially with Massachusetts, which colony .had absorbed the settlements of New Hampshire (1641- New Hamp-1643) a
History of the United States . lost over a thousand men, together with a number of women and children. Nearly half of all their towns had been attacked and twelve totally destroyed. A great war debt had also been contracted. 34. Massachusetts Claims Settlements inMaine and New Hampshire.—In addition to ^—^; »-^->the feeling of irritation aroused in the mindof Charles II by the protection afforded the judges who hadcondemned his father, the king found other cause for com-plaint, especially with Massachusetts, which colony .had absorbed the settlements of New Hampshire (1641- New Hamp-1643) and Maine (1667). In this absorption, Massa-chusetts was acting within the terms of her first charter. Thischarter provided for the control of territory three miles north ofthe Merrimac, which was at first supposed to flow east and westthroughout its length. But as the source of the river is far tothe north of its mouth, the original charter boundaries includedthe settlements that had been made in New Hampshire and PURITAN COSTUMES 62 VIRGINIA AND NEW ENGLAND Massachusetts located the source of the Merrimac while the Stuartkings gave out other charters in entire ignorance of American geog-raphy. Massachusetts had paid £1200 to the heirs of Gorges, thefounder of Maine, for their rights. The king now ordered the trans-action cancelled, ordered Massachusetts to give up Maine, and in1679 made the New Hampshire territory a royal province. Charles II sent over commissioners to inquire into these ^Misorders. Upon their arrival in the colony, the commissioners claimed that the kings letters were no more regarded IMassachu- . ^ setts defies than if they were an old number of the London Charles II -^ Gazetted In consequence, the king had the charterof Massachusetts annulled and the colony made over into a royalprovince in 1684, just as James I had done in the dispute withVirginia in 1625. He then set about drawing up a plan for a newgovernment. But as the plans of James I fo
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