Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Colonial Schemes of Popham and Gorges: Speech of John Wingate Thornton, at the Fort Popham Celebration, August 29, 1862, Under the Auspices of the Maine Historical Society
Hildreth (history of the United States, i., says, The whole of North America, as claimed by the English, was thus divided into the two provinces of New England and Vira ginia, by a line of demarkation very nearly coincident with that which still separates the slaveholding from the non-slaveholding states. Not, however, by the wealthy and powerful Council for New England, but by a feeble band of obscure religionists was the first permanent settlement made within the limits of this new province.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
