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Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast
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32
Sedgwick's Letter, Historical Magazine, July, 1873, p. 38.
33
Williamson thinks the name of Cape Rosier a distinct reminder of Weymouth's voyage.
34
Though Hutchinson says "about 1627," I think it an error, as Allerton, the promoter of the project, was in England in that year, as well as in 1626 and 1628, as agent of the colony. Nor was the proposal brought forward until Sherley and Hatherly, two of the adventurers, wrote to Governor Bradford, in 1629, that they had determined upon it in connection with Allerton, and invited Plymouth to join with them.
35
"Archives of Massachusetts."
36
Aglate la Tour, granddaughter of the chevalier, sold the seigniory of Acadia to the crown for two thousand guineas. – Douglass.
37
Mr. Shea (Charlevoix] says this was John Rhoade, and the vessel the Flying Horse, Captain Jurriaen Aernouts, with a commission from the Prince of Orange.
38
Estates are still conveyed in St. Louis by the arpent.
39
Denonville, who succeeded M. De la Barre as governor-general, was maitre de camp to the queen's dragoons. He was succeeded by Frontenac.
40
Denonville's and La Hontan's letters.
41
Capuchin, a cowl or hood.
42
Count Frontenac was a relative of De Maintenon.
43
Cotton Mather.
44
Isle au Haut is particularly renowned for the size and quality of these fish.
45
This work is on an old map of the Kennebec patent. It was about twenty rods square, a bastion. A house now stands in the space it formerly occupied.
46
"Purchas," vol. iv., 1874.
47
In 1603 Gorges was deprived of the command, but had it restored to him the same year.
48
"Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society," vol. vi., 3d series.
49
See Lescarbot, p. 497.
50
Strachey. Gorges says August 8th; Smith, August 11th.
51
A fly-boat, the Gift of God, George Popham; Mary and John, of London, Raleigh Gilbert.
52
Samoset, in 1625, sold Pemaquid to John Brown. His sign-manual was a bended bow, with an arrow fitted to the string. The deed to Brown also fixes the residence, at Pemaquid, of Abraham Shurt, agent of Elbridge and Aldworth, in the year 1626.
53
New York Colonial Documents," vol. iii.. p, 256, Some primitive defensive works had existed as early as 1630, rifled in 1632 by the freebooter. Dixy Bull.
54
It was of stone; a quadrangle seven hundred and thirty-seven feet in compass without the outer walls, one hundred and eight feet square within the inner ones: pierced with embrasures for twenty-eight cannons, and mounting fourteen, six being eighteen-pounders. The south wall fronting the sea was twenty-two feet high, and six feet thick at the ports. The great flanker, or round tower, at the west end of the line was twenty-nine feet high. It stood about a score of rods from high-water mark. – Mather, vol. ii., p. 537.
55
"D'Iberville, monseigneur, est un tres sage garçon, entreprenant et qui scait ce qu'il fait." – M. Denonville.
56
As it is inconsistent with the purpose and limits of these chapters to give the detail of charters, patents, and titles by which Pemaquid has acquired much historical prominence, the reader may, in addition to authorities named in the text, consult Thornton's "Ancient Pemaquid," vol. v. "Maine Historical Collections;" Johnston's "Bristol, Bremen, and Pemaquid;" Hough's "Pemaquid Papers," etc.
