Note 1069 — Chapter VII · (continued 2)

This memorial was printed by Bradford in Philadelphia about 1721. Hildeburn’s Century of Printing, no. 170. There was a claim upon the Kennebec, arising from certain early grants to Plymouth Colony, and in elucidation of such claims A patent for Plymouth in New England, to which is annexed extracts from the Records of the Colony, etc., was printed in Boston in 1751. There is a copy among the Belknap Papers, in the Mass. Hist. Soc. (61, c. 105, etc.), where will be found a printed sheet of extracts from deeds, to which is annexed an engraved plan of the coast of Maine between Cape Elizabeth and Pemaquid, and of the Kennebec valley up to Norridgewock, which is called A true copy of an ancient plan of E. Hutchinson’s, Esqr., from Jos. Heath, in 1719, and Phins. Jones’ Survey in 1751, and from John North’s late survey in 1752. Attest, Thomas Johnston. The Belknap copy has annotations in the handwriting of Thomas Prince, and with it is a tract called Remarks on the plan and extracts of deeds lately published by the proprietors of the township of Brunswick, dated at Boston, Jan. 26, 1753. This also has Prince’s notes upon it.