Excerpt from Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Vol. 2 IN presenting to the public a second volume of the Collections of the Maine Historical Society, the committee desire to give greater publicity to the Brief Narration of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and the Voyage of Christopher Levett, two prominent articles of the volume. They are both rare works and have a peculiar value among the historical materials of this State. An apology' for this republication cannot be needed. N 0 part of our country is so deeply ...
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Excerpt from Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Vol. 2 IN presenting to the public a second volume of the Collections of the Maine Historical Society, the committee desire to give greater publicity to the Brief Narration of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and the Voyage of Christopher Levett, two prominent articles of the volume. They are both rare works and have a peculiar value among the historical materials of this State. An apology' for this republication cannot be needed. N 0 part of our country is so deeply interested as Maine, in the life and story of Gorges. It was he who engaged most early and earnestly in the colonization of our territory obtained the first charter for it, and established the first regular government which it enjoyed. It is peculiarly proper that a narrative written by the founder of our State, in the earnestness and ardor of a man zeal ously devoted to the work of colonization, describing his efforts, his sacrifices, his disappointments and success, in those undertakings, should be preserved in the transactions of a society, which professes to search out and perpetuate the early attempts to colonize and cultivate our soil. The copy of the original edition of this work used in the present reprint, was kindly loaned for the purpose, from the Library of Harvard College, by President Everett. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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