A BRIEFE DISCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND AND THE SEVERALL TOWNES THEREIN TOGETHER WITH THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT THEREOF. [From a Manuscript written in 1660 by Samuel Maverick, and recently discovered in the British Museum by Henry F. Waters, A.B.] [1885] BOSTON: Press of David Clapp & Son....

By John Ward Dean. The Committee on English Research of the New England Historic Genealogical Society called attention in their last annual report to the fact that there were in England many important documents relating to the American colonies, as well as manuscript maps hitherto unknown to historical investigators. They urged upon the society the desirability of having exact copies of them made now while we have in Mr. Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters an experienced American antiquary resident in Lon

TOGETHER WITH THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT THEREOF. Pem ˜a quid. —Westward from Penobscott (which is the Southermost Fort in Nova Scotia) fourteen Leagues of is Pem ˜a quid. in which River Alderman Alworth of Bristole, setled a Company of People in the yeare 1625, which Plantation hath continued and many Families are now settled there. There was a Patent granted for it by his Mat ies : Royall Grandfath er and by vertue of that Patent they hold the Islands of Monahegan and Damerells Coue, and other sma