The inhabitants north of Saco about Casco Bay remained independent for several years after. Cleves and other leading inhabitants would not submit, and they tried to secure the interference of Cromwell. When they failed in this attempt, the people of Casco Bay, in 1658, recognized the authority of Massachusetts. It was at this time that the plantations at Black Point, at Spurwink, and Blue Point were united and received the name of Scarboro and those at Casco Bay received that of Falmouth.[41] Whatever judgment we may pass on the motives of Massachusetts in thus enlarging her borders to the farthest limits of settled territory north of Plymouth, it must be acknowledged that her course inured to the benefit of all parties concerned. The unruly settlements of the north received in time an orderly government, while each successive addition of territory weakened the power of the religious aristocracy in Massachusetts by welcoming into the body politic a new factor of population. [Footnote 1: Maine Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, VII., 65-72.] [Footnote 2: _Cal. of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1660, p. 210.] [Footnote 3: Mass. Hist. Soc, _Proceedings_ (year 1876), 358.] [Footnote 4: Belknap, _New Hampshire_, 20.] [Footnote 5: Maine Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, VII., 96-98.] [Footnote 6: Maine Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, VII., 98-107, 143-150.] [Footnote 7: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 137.] [Footnote 8: Ibid., I., 394, II., 33, 49, 76.] [Footnote 9: _Plymouth Col. Records_, X., 31, 32, 426.] [Footnote 10: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 349.] [Footnote 11: N.H. Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 1st series, I., 321, 324.] [Footnote 12: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 349, 384.] [Footnote 13: _N.H. Col. Records_, I., 113.] [Footnote 14: _Mass. Col. Records_, I., 332, 342, II., 29.] [Footnote 15: _Mass. Col. Records_, II., 67; Winthrop, _New England_, II., 195.] [Footnote 16: Palfrey, _New England_, I., 594.] [Footnote 17: _Mass. Col. Records_, II., 38.] [Footnote 18: Doyle, _English Colonies_, II., 215.] [Footnote 19: Williamson, _Maine_, I., 226.] [Footnote 20: Gorges, _Description of New England_, 79; Doyle, _English Colonies_, II., 215.] [Footnote 21: Maine Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, VII., 125, 150, 160, 163; Doyle, _English Colonies_, II., 324.] [Footnote 22: Gorges, _Description of New England_, 79.] [Footnote 23: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 276.] [Footnote 24: Maine Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, VII., 222-243.] [Footnote 25: Gorges, _Description of New England_, 83.] [Footnote 26: Winthrop, _New England_, II., 11.] [Footnote 27: Hazard, _State Papers_, I., 470.] [Footnote 28: _Cal. of State Pap., Col._, 1574-1660, p. 152.] [Footnote 29: _Mass. Col. Records_, I., 272.] [Footnote 30: Maine Hist. Soc., _Collections_, 2d series, VII., 133-136.] [Footnote 31: Winthrop, _New England_, I., 69, II., 186.] [Footnote 32: Winthrop, _New England_, II., 186, 313, 390.]