Excerpt from The Oakland RegisterKennebec by Popham in 1607, as above stated, are the following.The grant of territory known as the Plymouth or Kennebec Grant was made by the Plymouth Council on January 13, 1629. This grant included all the territory on either side of the Kennebec river to the extent of fifteen miles from its banks, and extended from the vicinity of Topsham to the Wessarunsett river at Cornville. Following this grant there was erected a trading house up above on ye river in ye most convenientest place for trade. This was undoubtedly at Cushnoe, or Augusta as it is now known. Not long after this, some six years, the Plymouth Council became disheartened and surrendered its charter to the King of England. Then by various acts and grants the King placed this and other territory, which included practically what is included in the present State of Maine, under the control of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. His domain was designated as the Province of Maine. He sent his nephew, William Gorges, as Governor, and this gentleman established his capital in Saco, and opened court there on March 28, 1636. As there were no settlements yet on the Kennebec, Gorges exer cised no jurisdiction, but the Pilgrim Colony made a monopoly of the trade with the Indians. But the trade with the Indians became in time so scanty that it was leased in 1649 to five parties, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Thomas Prince, Thomas Willett and William Paddy. The consideration was a small sum and the lease was to run three years. This lease was renewed till 1661 when the patent was sold outright to Artemas Boies, Edward Tyng, Thomas Brattle and John Winslow.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-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.