[Footnote 1: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 146.] [Footnote 2: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 176, 177.] [Footnote 3: Ibid., 225, 226; Gardiner, _Pequot Warres_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 3d series, III.), 131-160.] [Footnote 4: Gardiner, _Pequot Warres_; Winthrop, _New England_, I., 231-233, 238, 259.] [Footnote 5: Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 1st series, I., 175.] [Footnote 6: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 234-236.] [Footnote 7: Ibid., 267, 312; Mason, _Pequot War_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, VIII.), 132.] [Footnote 8: _Conn. Col. Records_, I., 9.] [Footnote 9: Mason, _Pequot War_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d. series, VIII.), 134-136.] [Footnote 10: Ibid.; Underhill, _Pequot War_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 3d series, VI.), 25.] [Footnote 11: Mason, _Pequot War_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, III.), 144.] [Footnote 12: Ibid.; Winthrop, _New England_, I., 268, 278-281.] [Footnote 13: Trumbull, _Connecticut_, I., 92.] [Footnote 14: Mason, _Pequot War_ (Mass. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, VIII.), 148.] [Footnote 15: _Conn. Col. Records_, I., 20-25, 119.] [Footnote 16: The same rule prevailed in Massachusetts. For the result, see Baldwin, _Early History of the Ballot in Connecticut_ (Amer. Hist. Assoc. _Papers_, IV.), 81; Perry, _Historical Collections of the American Colonial Church_, 21; Palfrey, _New England_, II., 10.] [Footnote 17: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 368.] [Footnote 18: Trumbull, _Connecticut_, I., 507-510.] [Footnote 19: Palfrey, _New England_, II., 377.] [Footnote 20: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 283, 312, 484.] [Footnote 21: _New Haven Col. Records_, I., 12.] [Footnote 22: Trumbull, _Connecticut_, I., 98.] [Footnote 23: _New Haven Col. Records_, I., 11-17.] [Footnote 24: Trumbull, _Connecticut_, I., 107; Doyle, _English Colonies_, II., 196.] [Footnote 25: _New Haven Col. Records_, I., 69.] [Footnote 26: Ibid., 112.] [Illustration: MAINE IN 1652] CHAPTER XVI NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MAINE (1653-1658) After the charter granted to the Council for New England in 1620, Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason procured, August 10, 1622, a patent for "all that part of y^e maine land in New England lying vpon y^e Sea Coast betwixt y^e rivers of Merrimack & Sagadahock and to y^e furthest heads of y^e said Rivers and soe forwards up into the land westward untill threescore miles be finished from y^e first entrance of the aforesaid rivers and half way over that is to say to the midst of the said two rivers w^ch bounds and limitts the lands aforesaid togeather w^th all Islands and Isletts w^th in five leagues distance of y^e premisses and abutting vpon y^e same or any part or parcell thereoff."[1]