30. “Relation of a Voyage to Sagadahoc,” Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, vol. XVIII.
31. H. O. Thayer, The Sagadahoc Colony (Gorges Society, Portland, 1892), pp. 167-87.
32. Reproduced by Brown, Genesis, p. 190. Cf. also Ibid., pp. 183 ff.
33. Correspondence in Brown, Genesis, p. 117 and passim; also The First Republic in America (Boston, 1898), p. 91. Cf. I. A. Wright, “Spanish Policy toward Virginia,” in American Historical Review, April, 1920, pp. 448 ff. and Cal. State Pap., Col., 1675-76, pp. 45 ff.
34. Cf. note on the “Movement of the ships,” Thayer, Sagadahoc, pp. 192 ff.
35. Baxter, Sir F. Gorges, vol. iii, pp. 154 f.
36. Maine Historical Society Collections, vol. v, pp. 357-60.
37. Gorges, “Briefe Narration,” p. 55.
38. Attempts have been made to magnify the importance of the colony, and even to insist upon its continued existence. Following the publication of the uncritical Popham Memorial, Portland, 1863, 98 pamphlets and articles appeared in six years. The literature is surveyed by Thayer, Sagadahoc, pp. 87-156.
39. Gorges, “Briefs Narration,” p. 56; “Briefe Relation,” Purchas, Pilgrimes, vol. XIX, p. 271.
40. Brown, Genesis, pp. 238-40.
41. G. M. Asher, Henry Hudson the Navigator (Hakluyt Society, 1860), p. 63.
42. Purchas, Pilgrimes, vol. XIX, pp. 73, 84.
43. Leaving out of consideration the early coasting voyages, in which the Dutch had no part whatever, they had recently been preceded to within a reasonable distance of both the mouth and the source of the Hudson. The English had made a detailed discovery as far as the entrance of the Sound, while Champlain was within a few miles of the source of the river some months before the Dutch ascended it. If rights of discovery were to be limited only to the points actually visited, with no extension thence in any direction, the country would have become a veritable checker-board of warring nationalities. The Dutch themselves held no such view, and claimed all the land from Cape Cod to Delaware Bay, with indefinite limits toward the interior. Acknowledgment of any such claim would have to be based upon a theory of extension which would seem, therefore, equally to validate the claims of English and French, arising in both cases from discovery prior to the Dutch.
44. Brown, Genesis, p. 534.
45. The accounts of the latter voyage are slight. John Smith, in a page, gives us all we know, and says nothing of Plastrier. Works (ed. Arber, Glasgow, 1910), vol. ii, p. 696. Purchas had a full account, which he did not print and which is now lost. Pilgrimes, vol. XXX, p. 296.
46. Brown, First Republic, p. 176; Genesis, pp. 709-23.
47. W. D. Williamson, History of the State of Maine (Hallowell, 1832), vol. i, p. 206, states, but without giving any authority, that there had been Jesuits at Mt. Desert for five years.
48. The story of his having secretly rifled La Saussaye’s trunks of his papers, and then demanded them from him, seems hardly likely, in view of other facts. It rests on the authority of Biard (“Relation,” in Levermore, Forerunners, vol. II, p. 496). As to Biard’s character and credibility, cf. Biggar, Trading Companies, pp. 263-65.
49. Brown, Genesis, p. 534.
50. The accounts of the latter voyage are slight. John Smith, in a page, gives us all we know, and says nothing of Plastrier. Works (ed. Arber, Glasgow, 1910), vol. ii, p. 696. Purchas had a full account, which he did not print and which is now lost. Pilgrimes, vol. XXX, p. 296.
51. Biard, in Levermore, Forerunners, vol. ii, p. 506. Cf. also the English account in Purchas, Pilgrimes, vol. XIX, pp. 214-16, 271.
52. Biard and Purchas, ubi supra; also Biencourt’s complaint, in Brown, Genesis, pp. 725 ff. and Cal. State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p.15.
53. Hunter, British India, vol. i, pp. 300-304.
54. John Smith, Works, vol. i, p. 187.
55. For various states of the map, vide J. Winsor, Memorial History of Boston (Boston, 1882), vol. i, pp. 52-56.
56. Printed for the first time by Brown, Genesis, p. 456.
57. Hunter, British India, vol. i, p. 306.
58. Cheyney, “English Conditions,” pp. 514-21. For a report on a site for a colony in Derry, which might be mistaken for an American “prospectus” of the same period, vide Cal. State Papers, Ireland, 1608-1610, p. 318. The items are curiously familiar: the goodness of the air and the fruitfulness of the land”; “the red deer, foxes, conies, martins, otters”; “the great plenty of timber for shipping”; “the commodious harbor”; “the infinite store of cods, herrings,” etc.; “the sea-fowl in great abundance”; even the pearls.
59. Cal. State Pap., Col., 1558-1660, p. 15.
60. The Trades Increase, in Harleian Miscellany (ed. 1809), vol. iii, p. 299; Brown, Genesis, p. 820.
61. Smith, Works, vol. i, p. 240.
62. Ibid., vol. ii, pp. 731 ff.