Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast. Drake Samuel Adams

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СКАЧАТЬ 1607 Weymouth was granted a pension of three shillings and fourpence per diem. Smith was at Monhegan in 1614, Captain Dermer in 1619, and some mutineers from Rocroft's ship had passed the winter of 1618-'19 there. The existence of a small plantation is ascertained in 1622. In 1626 the island was sold to Giles Elbridge and Robert Aldworth for fifty pounds.

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This flag inspired the national lyric, "The Star-spangled Banner."

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Colonel Storer kept up the stockades and one or more of the flankarts until after the year 1760, as a memorial rather than a defense.

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This relationship is disputed by Mr. Joseph L. Chester, the eminent antiquary. Winthrop, it would seem, ought to have known; Eliot and Allen repeat the authority, the latter giving the full name of Mary Hutchinson.

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Both sides have been ably presented by Dr. N. Bouton and Hon. Charles H. Bell.

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Once, and much better, Arundel, from the Earl of Arundel.

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An old sea-chart says, "Saco River bear place at low water."

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"Massachusetts Historical Collections," 1792, vol. i.