During the period we are now discussing, the history of Maine was the story of confused grants of territory and of the planting of small isolated farming, fishing, and trading communities. The existence led by the inhabitants, in their solitary shacks or little villages, was that of a rough border life in which the monotony of the hard, bitter winters, and the routine of planting, fishing, or bargaining for furs, was punctuated by an occasional murder among themselves, and by quarrels, sometimes bloody, with the Indians and the French. In 1629, the Province of Maine, as granted to Mason and Gorges seven years previously, was divided between them, Mason accepting as his share that portion lying between the Merrimac and the Piscataqua,—which received the name of New Hampshire,—while Gorges retained the balance, extending from the Piscataqua to the Kennebec.[426] Mention has previously been made of the small beginnings at Pemaquid, Sheepscot, and Monhegan to the eastward, and of Portsmouth and Dover in what now became Mason's particular province. The settlements next planted, at Richmond's Island, Pejebscot, around Casco Bay, and elsewhere, were the work of servants for English merchants or of individual emigrants, and were hampered by the conflicting claims arising from the carelessly drawn patents.[427] Gorges himself became interested in a new attempt to colonize, and his nephew, William, was sent over as governor of a little colony planted at York, which later was to become the subject of one of those grandiose schemes of government to which the old knight was so uncontrollably addicted.[428] All of these early plantings, however, were of slight historical importance. Footnote 426: _Farnham Papers_ (Maine Historical Society, Portland, 1901), vol. I, pp. 96 _ff._ For the numerous grants of this period, _cf._ H. S. Burrage, _Colonial Maine_, pp. 197-226. Footnote 427: The patents may be found in the _Farnham Papers_, _passim_. The most accurate narrative account is that of Burrage, _Colonial Maine_. The Trelawney and Cammack patents, and an extremely valuable correspondence relating to conditions at this time, are in the _Trelawney Papers_; Maine Historical Society, 1884. _Cf._ also, J. P. Baxter, _George Cleeve of Casco Bay_ (Gorges Society, Portland, 1885), pp. 27 _ff._ Footnote 428: _Farnham Papers_, vol. I, p. 159; Gorges, _Briefe Narration_, p. 79; Burrage, _Colonial Maine_, pp. 216 _ff._