Book/Printed Material A discourse delivered before the Maine Historical Society : at its annual meeting, September 6th, 1846 Copy 1
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Image 7 of Copy 1 PIScouns DELIVERED BEFORE THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING SEPTEMBER 6ru 1846 BY GEORGE FOLSOM ButI doubt not it will prove a very flourishing place and be replenished with many…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 9 of Copy 1 Ata meeting of the Marne Historicat Socrery holden at Brunswick Sept 6th 1846 Resolved That the thanks of the Society be presented to the Hon GrorcE Fotsom of New York for his…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 10 of Copy 1- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 11 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE Mr PrestpentT AND GENTLEMEN OF THE HisTorI CAL SOCIETY INDIFFERENCE to the past considered as a na tional characteristic is a mark of rudeness and inciy ilization A purely savage people…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 12 of Copy 1 5 DISCOURSE to feel the sublimity of their intellectual nature and to call into exercise the faculties that God has endow ed them with but of which they were before uncon scious…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 13 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 7 the newborn thirst for historic lore and to that other and scarcely less civilized sentiment THE LOVE OF ONES OWN NATIVE LAND Advancing improvement strengthens the desire to converse with…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 14 of Copy 1 8 DISCOURSE oblivion the services rendered by his countrymen in the discovery of the New World but had the work been commenced at an earlier period the results would doubtless have been…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 15 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 9 greater value than all the labor and expense re quired to effect this object The publications of the English Record Commis sions are an example of what may be accomplished…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 16 of Copy 1 10 DISCOURSE countries to procure copies of documents illustrative of their early history The Legislature of New York appropriated about fifteen thousand dollars for this purpose and her Agent was employed three…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 17 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 11 Disirict of Maine which although far from being a faultless work was highly creditable to the industry and patriotism of its Author Associated with Sulli van in founding and sustaining…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 18 of Copy 1 12 DISCOURSE all parts of the country Its members are numerous and the papers read at its monthly meetings usually attract a large concourse of persons of literary taste and habits Besides…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 19 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 13 tuted in 1822 and numbered among its early friends and founders some of the most eminent names in the State It has already rendered good service by the publication of…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 20 of Copy 1 14 DISCOURSE the great navigator even in his last voyage took with him persons skilled in the Arabic language for the purpose of being enabled to hold intercourse with the Khan of…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 21 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 15 The accounts of this voyage and of a second in in the same direction made by Sebastian Cabot the following year are extremely meagre no details of them were published…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 22 of Copy 1 16 DISCOURSE the inhabitants to a large kind of fish which appear ed in such shoals that they sometimes interrupted the progress of the ships This word is now used in several…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 23 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 17 map contained in Wytfliets supplement to Ptolemy published as late as 1603 it has New France on the north and Virginia on the south A city of the same name…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 24 of Copy 1 18 DISCOURSE the Indians dwelling within these limits and of others as far south as Massachusetts was in the hands of a single Cacique or Sachem to whom the inferior Sagamores of…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 25 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 19 colonist was landed upon any portion of the Ameri can continent to mark the possession of the country on the part of those who afterwards claimed an ex clusive right…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 26 of Copy 1 20 DISCOURSE Although repeated commissions were issued for the colonization of the country under the name of New France the whole of North America with the excep tion of Florida and Mexico…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 27 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 21 time a prebendary of St Augustines Church at Bris tol taking a lively interest in promoting voyages of discovery to different parts of the globe he induced the corporation of…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 28 of Copy 1 22 DISCOURSE was one of the grantees at Pemaquid in conjunction with Giles Elbridge The object of this expedition having been accom plished by a careful survey of the country and the…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 29 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 23 them the better hope they gave him of those parts where they inhabited as well fitted for the purposes of settlement especially when he found what good ly rivers stately…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 30 of Copy 1 24 DISCOURSE those rivers and harbors indicated in their instructions and brought with them the most exact discovery of that coast that ever came to my hands since In the meantime new…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 31 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 95 a person on the same evidence at the present day and the trial was scandalously managed on the part of the prosecuting attorney Sir Edward Coke even for that period…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 32 of Copy 1 26 DISCOURSE Ferdinando Gorges the founder of this State and the Lord Proprietor of the original Province of Maine Among all the friends of American colonization in England none displayed so much…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 33 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 27 great national importance in many points of view and Popham and Gorges succeeded in enlisting many of the first names in England in behalf of the enter prise The plan…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 34 of Copy 1 28 DISCOURSE ment of the colony Stage Island Parkers Island and a neighboring peninsula have respectively en joyed the reputation of having received this band of English exiles who first sought a…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 35 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 29 pected says Gorges all strangers should have their address to him and not he to them The ships in which the colonists had arrived were not ready to return until…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 36 of Copy 1 30 DISCOURSE ships arriving there did not only bring uncomfortable news of the death of the lord chief justice together with the death of Sir John Gilbert the elder brother unto Captain…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 37 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE ol be set down to that cause who was the only one that died amidst the hardships suffered by the colonists How superior was the spirit exhibited twelve years after by…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 38 of Copy 1 32 DISCOURSE mouth and now acted as guides and interpreters to the English in their intercourse with the red men Purchas who derived his information from Raleigh Gilbert and others of the…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 39 of Copy 1 DISCOURSE 33 As for the coldness of the clime said he I had had too much experience in the world to be frighted with such a blast as knowing many great kingdoms…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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Image 40 of Copy 1 34 DISCOURSE forced to hire men to stay there the winter quarter at extreme rates This state of things continued until the year 1614 when Captain John Smith who had been governor…- Contributor: Maine Historical Society - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Folsom, George
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About this Item
Title
- A discourse delivered before the Maine Historical Society : at its annual meeting, September 6th, 1846
Names
- Folsom, George, 1802-1869.
- Maine Historical Society.
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Portland : Pub. for the Society, 1847.
Headings
- - Maine--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Notes
- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC nsk 2020-09-30 update (1 card)
Medium
- 80 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F23 .F67
Library of Congress Control Number
- 01008856
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