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Excerpt from The Greatest of Literary Problems: The Authorship of the Shakespeare Works, An Exposition of All Points at Issue, From Their Inception to the Present Moment God does not ordain the vilest among men to be his messen gers of peace and enlightenment to mankind - and, certainly, the men to whom our pretentious guides have introduced us were among the vilest of their kind. No wonder the world is awakening to the necessity of a higher ...

Excerpt from Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine, Vol. 1: Including the Brief Relation, the Brief I defire here to record my grateful acknowledgments to friends abroad and at home for numerous favors which I have received. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books ...

Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 18: Containing the Baxter Manuscripts This volume contains the history of the Revolution in Maine and reveals the slipshod manner in which both parties conducted the war. Not only did the authorities on the American side proceed in a careless, unsystematic and blundering manner in the defence, leaving the soldiers engaged in it to starve and freeze until they heard a frantic appeal ...

Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 24: Containing the Baxter Manuscripts This volume completes the documents relating to the Indians of Maine. I have added to them some documentary material taken from the records of the Pejepscot Company, whose land claims were the subject of so many disputes between the savage tribes and the pioneers who settled the eastern part of the state during a considerable portion of the eigh...

Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 23: Containing the Baxter Manuscripts In my studies of the early history of Maine, it became evident to me that a documentary volume devoted to the native tribes of Maine, with whom the European settlers so often came in conflict, would be of use to students of history. In previous volumes I have published from time to time such documents relating to this subject as my former employ...

Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 9: Containing the Baxter ManuscriptsAug. 20 Order to summon soldiers to appear before court 21 Letter from Silvanus Davis, Instructions for Col. J ohn Pynchon and others, 22 Order to send 25 men to Wells for relief of that town, 28 Letter from Silvanus Davis and others, Letter from Silvanus Davis, List of names, 29 Commission to J eremiah Swayne Comandl' in chiefe, Aug. 31 Order to p...

Excerpt from Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine, Vol. 2: Including the Brief Relation, the Brief Narration, His Defence, the Charter Granted to Him, His Will, and His Letters In {peaking of the Journal of the Voyage to Sagadahoc by the Popham colonifis, I have not referred to the Rev. B. F. Decofta's difcovery of this important manufcript at Lambeth Palace, for the reafon that I poffeffed a manufcriptmaz'ory Note. About the Publ...

Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 10: Containing the Baxter Manuscripts The documents in this volume fall within a period of great interest and importance to students of Maine history, and have been selected to largely embrace Indian affairs and questions of ownership of lands, which agitated those who were struggling to establish themselves along the outposts of civilization. This volume closes the present series, ...

Excerpt from Two RhymesAnd somehow, cometh a picture of bliss Of gardens and blossoming fields in a breath Cometh out from the kingdom of dreams Mellowed and hallowed by memory's beams, And towers and Spires and walls of stone.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-...

Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 22: Containing the Baxter Manuscripts This volume, the twenty-second Documentary series of the Society, will be followed by a collection of interesting documents relating to the Indians of Maine, transcribed for me by Rev. Henry O. Thayer with painstaking accuracy, like all of Mr. Thayer's excellent work. They would have appeared some time ago had I not been averse to interrupting t...

Excerpt from The Pioneers New France: New England, With Contemporary Letters and Documents Papers produced by Mr. Dummer, in Proof Of the Right of the Crown of Great Britain to the Lands between New England and Nova Scotia, and of Several Depredations Committed by the French and Indians between 1720 and June. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com T...

Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 16: Containing the Baxter Manuscripts The present volume presents to students a considerable portion of the documents in existence relating to the Penobscot Expedition, which, in its day, loomed into an importance to those affected by it almost equal to that sent in the reign of Elizabeth against the western coast of England, known in history as the Spanish Armada. As the story is u...

Excerpt from What Caused the Deportation of the Acadians? Again, it seems safe to observe, that in estimating the moral contents of an act of the past, we should take into account the difference between the standards then and now employed, as well as the social conditions and political exigencies of the time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com T...

Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 5: Containing the Baxter ManuscriptsTo Mr. Edward Denham, of New Bedford, to whom our Society is so greatly indebted for unselfish labor in its be half, am I under especial obligation for the excellent index which accompanies the volume.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a repro...

Excerpt from Early Voyages to America: A Paper Read Before the Rhode Island Historical Society This valuable monograph on American history was read by Mr. Baxter, at a meeting of the Rhode Island Historical Society, held in its Cabinet, March 6, 1888, when its author, a corresponding member of the Society, received, on motion of the Hon. Royal C. Taft seconded by the Rev. S. L. Caldwell, D. D., a unanimous vote of thanks for his elaborate and...

Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 3: Containing the Trelawny Papers The history of those who have lived in the past never fails to fascinate the reflecting mind, and especially is this true with respect to the history of those whom we regard as ancestors. The minutest incidents of their daily life, from birth to death, - their friendships and rivalries, joys and sorrows, successes and failures, and even the scenes a...

Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 4: Containing the Baxter ManuscriptsI regret that it was impossible to correct my proof by the original documents, but I trust that important errors have been avoided, certainly those documents from the Massa chusetts archives, which my venerable friend David P ulsifer, of Boston, has Oopied for me with a painstaking fidelity peculiar to the born antiquarian, should be as free from e...

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