Territories;... [Sir Ferdinando Gorges was one of the original patentees of the "Northern Colony" of 1606. More than any other one man, he was instrumental in keeping that enterprise alive and in finally securing its reorganization as the Council of New England in 1620 (No. 42 above). He continued to be prominent in the meetings and business of that Company until its dissolution in 1634. He drew up a plan of government for all New England, in accordance with which the New England Council appointed his son Robert "generall Governor." This governor was to be assisted by a "Councill" consisting of heads of any individual colonies established or to be established. The Governor and Council were to make laws with the assent of a central "Parliament" to be chosen from the several colonies. Thus Robert Gorges came to America in this double capacity,--patentee of his own small grant on Massachusetts Bay, and General Governor (or "Lieutenant General") of all New England. It was this last position that brought upon him the dislike of Governor Bradford of Plymouth, as noted in _American History and Government_, # 45, note.] _b. Robert Gorges, Lieutenant General of New England_ (1623) From Sir Ferdinando Gorges' "Briefe Narration" (1658), reprinted in _Massachusetts Historical Society Collections_, Third Series, VI, 74-75. _My son Captain Robert Gorges sent by authority of the Council for those Affairs, as their Lieutenant General._ The several complaints made to the council of the abuses committed by several the fishermen, and other interlopers, who without order from them frequented those coasts, tending to the scorn of our nation ... to the overthrow of our trade, and dishonor of the government,--