Excerpt from The History of Maine, From the Earliest Discovery of the Region by the Northmen Until the Present Time: Including a Narrative of the Voyages and Explorations of the Early Adventurers, the Manners and Customs of the Indian Tribes, the Hardships of the First Settlers, the Conflicts With the Savages, and the Gradual Advancement of the State

Maine is the native State of the writer of this volume. Seventy years ago, in the year 1805, he was born in Brunswick, within sound of the roar of the Falls of the Androscoggin.

His childhood was spent in Hallowell, then a small but thriving hamlet upon the banks of the Kennebec. In the halls of Bowdoin he received his collegiate education.

In his maturer years he ever repaired, for recreation, to the parental home, then at Farmington in the beautiful and luxu riant valley of the Sandy River.

In Maine he found the cradle of his infancy. There are the graves of his fathers. Upon its soil he has spent the happiest years of his life. To give a biographical sketch of his native State, of its birth, growth and maturity, has been with him a. Labor of love.

It is not the object of this history to search out discoveries which have hitherto eluded the scrutiny of antiquarians, or to settle disputed questions which have arisen in reference to minute details in early days.

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