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MAINE]. - Grant of Land North of the Saco River to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonighton by the Council for New England; February 12, 1629.

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MAINE]. - Grant of Land North of the Saco River to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonighton by the Council for New England; February 12, 1629.

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ca. 32.724 $ - 49.086 $
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Grant of Land North of the Saco River to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonighton by the Council for New England; February 12, 1629.
Maine: [likely 1665]. Manuscript on paper, 4 pp., with original deckled edge. Folio (315 x 195 mm). Recording the countersignatures on last leaf of Roger Warwick and Edward Gorges, with an appendix (signed by four witnesses, including the Puritan Thomas Wiggin). On watermarked paper. [Docketed on verso in 17th-century hand:] Patent Saco on the East side of the River. Condition : scattered stains, usual folds, some folds starting to split, creases, worn edges. Provenance : Heirs of Sir George Carteret via descent. a copy of one of the earliest grants independently issued by the colonies. "to have and to hould all and singular the said lands & promises and the the singular the woods, quarries, marshes, waters, rivers, lakes, fishings, fowlings, hawkings, huntings, Mynes Mineralls of what kind of nature soweth, priviledges, rights, jurisdictions, libertys, royalties and all other profits, Comodityes unlimited and whatsoever before in & by lease presents given and graunted or hereinwe and mentioned to be hereby given or graunted The every of their appurtenances, and every part and parcel thereof (except before excepted) unto the said Thomas Lewis and Cap. Richard Bonython their heirs, associates and assigned for ever to the only proper use of the said Thomas Lewis and Cap. Richard Bonython…" The history of the Saco patent demonstrates many of the problems of conflicting claims and charters that the royal commission of 1664 sought to address in their official tour of the New England colonies. In 1630/31, the present patent was issued to Thomas Lewis and Capt. Richard Bonython, by the Plymouth Council, as a result of the Plymouth Company's own crown charter of 1620, granting them property rights from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude. Confusingly, they had granted nearly the whole territory between this and the Kennebec River, to Mason and Sir Fernando Gorges in 1622. Another conflicting patent mirrored the present, as two were granted on the Saco River in 1630/31. The Biddeford patent, to John Oldham and Richard Vines, conveyed a tract of land between Cape Elizabeth and Cape Porpoise, on the south side of the river while the above granted a tract of the same extent on the opposite, eastern side, to Lewis and Capt. Richard Bonython, as quoted above. By the time the commissioners arrived in the summer of 1665, not only were the heirs of Gorges seeking to reclaim what the Plymouth Council had first given to Sir Fernando in 1622, but Massachusetts, having conducted its own survey in 1659 was making a claim that these tracts should be under the influence of the Commonwealth and governed from Boston. Col. George Cartwright and Samuel Maverick and Robert Carr (three of the committee, Nicholls was preoccupied with governing New York) examined patents (making copies of course, including perhaps the present copy), heard the arguments and issued a decree containing the following: "June 23, 1665. - "We having seen the several charters granted to Sir F. Gorges and to the corporation of Mass. Bay, and having received several petitions from the inhabitants of the Province of Maine, which is laid claim unto both by the heir of Sir F. Gorges and the said corporation, in which petitions they desire to be taken into his Majesty's immediate protection and government, and having considered that it would be of ill consequence if the inhabitants of this province should be seduced by those of Mass. Bay, who have already by the sound of the trumpet denied to submit themselves unto his majesty's authority, which by commission under his great seal of England he hath been pleased to entrust us with, looking upon themselves as the supreme power in these parts, …, do by these presents receive all his Majesty's good subjects living within the province of Maine into his Majesty's more immediate protection and government…" The commission also made provision for the establishment of a crown-supported provincial government, thus Maine once again was abl

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 73
Auktion:
Datum:
23.06.2009
Auktionshaus:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
Großbritannien und Nordirland
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
Beschreibung:

Grant of Land North of the Saco River to Thomas Lewis and Richard Bonighton by the Council for New England; February 12, 1629.
Maine: [likely 1665]. Manuscript on paper, 4 pp., with original deckled edge. Folio (315 x 195 mm). Recording the countersignatures on last leaf of Roger Warwick and Edward Gorges, with an appendix (signed by four witnesses, including the Puritan Thomas Wiggin). On watermarked paper. [Docketed on verso in 17th-century hand:] Patent Saco on the East side of the River. Condition : scattered stains, usual folds, some folds starting to split, creases, worn edges. Provenance : Heirs of Sir George Carteret via descent. a copy of one of the earliest grants independently issued by the colonies. "to have and to hould all and singular the said lands & promises and the the singular the woods, quarries, marshes, waters, rivers, lakes, fishings, fowlings, hawkings, huntings, Mynes Mineralls of what kind of nature soweth, priviledges, rights, jurisdictions, libertys, royalties and all other profits, Comodityes unlimited and whatsoever before in & by lease presents given and graunted or hereinwe and mentioned to be hereby given or graunted The every of their appurtenances, and every part and parcel thereof (except before excepted) unto the said Thomas Lewis and Cap. Richard Bonython their heirs, associates and assigned for ever to the only proper use of the said Thomas Lewis and Cap. Richard Bonython…" The history of the Saco patent demonstrates many of the problems of conflicting claims and charters that the royal commission of 1664 sought to address in their official tour of the New England colonies. In 1630/31, the present patent was issued to Thomas Lewis and Capt. Richard Bonython, by the Plymouth Council, as a result of the Plymouth Company's own crown charter of 1620, granting them property rights from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude. Confusingly, they had granted nearly the whole territory between this and the Kennebec River, to Mason and Sir Fernando Gorges in 1622. Another conflicting patent mirrored the present, as two were granted on the Saco River in 1630/31. The Biddeford patent, to John Oldham and Richard Vines, conveyed a tract of land between Cape Elizabeth and Cape Porpoise, on the south side of the river while the above granted a tract of the same extent on the opposite, eastern side, to Lewis and Capt. Richard Bonython, as quoted above. By the time the commissioners arrived in the summer of 1665, not only were the heirs of Gorges seeking to reclaim what the Plymouth Council had first given to Sir Fernando in 1622, but Massachusetts, having conducted its own survey in 1659 was making a claim that these tracts should be under the influence of the Commonwealth and governed from Boston. Col. George Cartwright and Samuel Maverick and Robert Carr (three of the committee, Nicholls was preoccupied with governing New York) examined patents (making copies of course, including perhaps the present copy), heard the arguments and issued a decree containing the following: "June 23, 1665. - "We having seen the several charters granted to Sir F. Gorges and to the corporation of Mass. Bay, and having received several petitions from the inhabitants of the Province of Maine, which is laid claim unto both by the heir of Sir F. Gorges and the said corporation, in which petitions they desire to be taken into his Majesty's immediate protection and government, and having considered that it would be of ill consequence if the inhabitants of this province should be seduced by those of Mass. Bay, who have already by the sound of the trumpet denied to submit themselves unto his majesty's authority, which by commission under his great seal of England he hath been pleased to entrust us with, looking upon themselves as the supreme power in these parts, …, do by these presents receive all his Majesty's good subjects living within the province of Maine into his Majesty's more immediate protection and government…" The commission also made provision for the establishment of a crown-supported provincial government, thus Maine once again was abl

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 73
Auktion:
Datum:
23.06.2009
Auktionshaus:
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
16-17 Pall Mall
St James’s
London, SW1Y 5LU
Großbritannien und Nordirland
info@dreweatts.com
+44 (0)20 78398880
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