Abbott, John S.C. (1864). The History of the Civil War in America. Henry Bill, New York, NY. IS(2).

Adams, Charles Francis. (1892). Three episodes of Massachusetts History: The settlement of Boston Bay, the Antinomian controversy, a study of church and town government. Vol. I. Houghton, Mifflin and Co., Boston, MA. X.

• "Throughout the years 1616 and 1617 the hand of death lay heavily on those then dwelling in the eastern portions of what is now the State of Massachusetts.  The savages died, as a writer of that time phrased it, 'like rotten sheep;' though what particular form in modern nomenclature the fatal sickness took has never been ascertained." (pg. 1).
• "Yet that it was not the yellow fever is made clear by two facts: its ravages were confined, as a rule, to the aborigines, and did not extend to Europeans; and, moreover, unlike most forms of plague, so called, as well as yellow fever, it was not stayed by frost." (pg. 2).  "In fact, it practically swept out of existence that entire tribe of the Algonquin race known as the Massachusetts, while for the time it apparently left untouched their neighbors, the hostile Tarratines at the north, and the Narragansetts and Pequots to the south and west." (pg. 4).
• "The Damariscove stations were only some forty leagues from Plymouth, and each season they were resorted to by as many as thirty sail.  The forlorn Pilgrims now for the first time learned their way thither.  Subsequently they not only opened through this channel a tolerably regular intercourse with their friends in London and Layden, but at a somewhat later day they established a permanent station of their own on the Kennebec, where Augusta now is, and there for years carried on a profitable trade." (pg. 54).

• This is a slightly later edition of the voyages of Champlain than the Grant edition cited below (1907).  The title page of this 1922 edition notes that it has been annotated by six Canadian scholars under the general editorship of H. P. Biggar.  The noted historian W. F. Ganong is listed as an editor of volume 1.  Quotations from this editon of the Biggar text are those printed in Norumbega Reconsidered.  Selected annotations from the Voyages of Samuel de Champlain are extracted in the citation of Grants 1907 edition of the Voyages (see below).
• In the final analysis, the Biggar text is now considered the definitive edition of Champlain's works and is now the one cited by writers such as Bourque (2001) and others.

• See the annotations below from a different copy.

• "They found his place [Squanto] to be 40. miles from hence, the soyle good, and the people not many, being dead and abundantly wasted in the late great mortalitie which fell in all these parts aboute three years before the coming of the English, wherin thousands of them dyed, they not being able to burie one another; ther sculs and bones were found in many places lying still above ground, where their houses and dwellings had been; a very sad spectackle to behould.  But they brought word that the Narighansets lived but on the other side of that great bay, and were a strong people, and many in number, living compacte togeather, and had not been at all touched with this wasting plague." (pg. 118).
• "After harvest this year [1625], they sende out a boats load of corne 40. or 50. leagues to the eastward, up a river called Kenibeck; ...But God preserved them, and gave them good success, for they brought home 700li. of beaver, besids some other furrs, having litle or nothing els but this corne, which them selves had raised out of the earth.  This viage was made by Mr. Winslow and some of the old standers, for seamen they had none." (pg. 208).
• "Also he [Mr. Allerton, 1627] had order to procure a patente for a fitt trading place in the river of Kenebec; for being emulated both by the planters at Pascataway and other places to the eastward of them, and allso by the fishing ships, which used to draw much profite from the Indeans of those parts." (pg. 223).

• One of the earliest of the narrations of an English visit to the coast of Maine.

• As with many of the compilations of Maine's historians this publication duplicates some of the citations in this bibliography including Rosier's True Relation (Narrative of Waymouth's Voyage to the Coast of Maine).
• One of Maine's most prolific historians, Burrage also has many publications cited in the Maine History Antiquarian Sources bibliography.

Byington, Ezra Hoyt. (1897). The Puritan in England and New England. Roberts Brothers, Boston, MA. IS.

Carver, Jonathan. (1778). Travels through the interior parts of North America ... 1766-1768. London.

• "Many seventeenth century documents printed entire and others abstracted." (Clark, pg. 18).

• See the annotations of this citation in the Native Americans Principal references bibliography.

• Part two of the Navigations contains numerous narrations of voyages to North Virginia and is a primary reference for anybody studying European exploration in the 16th century.  Particlularly important is the material relating to the English ventures of 1578 - 88 (see Quinn bullet below page 42).
• There are so many various editions of Hakluyt that David Quinn, a student of his works, notes that no comprehensive survey of all his works has ever been successfully compilated.
• For more information on Hakluyt and his life see chapters 2 and 3 of David Quinns Explorers and Colonies: America, 1500 - 1625.
• Quinn notes that Hakluyt in the 1589 Principal Navigatioins includes David Ingram's tale of his journey through North America to St. John, NB.  Hakluyt left Ingram's tale out of subsequent editons:  "He cut out David Ingram's narrative as being unreliable." (pg. 43).

• John Winthrop.

• Charles Clark has a particularly detailed commentary on the significance of this important early source in his book Maine a history.

• This earlier translation of Champlain is closer to its 17th century original than the earlier (Grant) edition annotated in more detail.
• "Some two or three leagues from the point of Bedabedec, as you coaft northward along the main land which extends up this river, there are very high elevations of land, [Camden Hills] which in fair weather are feen twelve or fifteen leagues out at fea." (pg. 42).  This text uses the old spelling where "s" was often printed as "f".
• "Bedabedec is an Indian word, fignifying cape of the waters, and was plainly the point known as Owl's Head.  It gave name to the Camden Mountains alfo." (footnote, pg. 48).

• It is important to note that the contents of each edition of this text vary and it is not until the 1625-26 edition that Purchas includes a description of the country of Mawooshen and its Indian villages of coastal Maine, which are reprinted on this website from Dean Snow's Archaeology of New England.
• Joseph Williamson provides this notation for the first edition (A Bibliography of the State of Maine, Vol. 2, pg. 334): "The foregoing is the title of the first edition.  The eighth and ninth books, commencing on page 601 and extending to page 752, relate wholly to America.  Other editions, much enlarged, appeared in 1614, 1617, 1626.  The larger and greatly extended work in five folio volumes appeared in 1625-26.  References to early Maine voyagers and journalists: Champlain, 933; De Monts, 934; Gorges and Levett; Poutrincourt, 935; Pring, 938; Popham, 939; Rosier, 938; Smith, 939; Lescarbot, Nova Francia; notes by John Brereton and Gabriel Archer; letter from Gosnold; Thomas Hanham, voyage to the Sagadahoc in 1606; James Davies sent by Popham and others to the Sagadahoc, in 1607."

• Note that this text uses the old spellings where often f is used where we use s today, etc.  The quotations use the spellings from the original text.
• "In the yeare 1604. Monfieur de Monts (according to a Patent granted him the yeare before, for the inhabiting of Cadia, Canada, and other parts of New France, from the fortieth degree to the fixe and forthieth) rigged two fhips, and bare with thofe parts that trend Weftward from Cape Breton, giuing names to places at pleafure, or vpon occafion." (The eight Booke, pg. 751).
• "The Inhabitants of thefe parts were termed Souriquois.  From them Weftward are the people called Etechemins, where the next Port, after you are paffed the Riuer of S. John, is Saint Croix, where they erected a Fort, and wintered.  Threefcore leagues Weft from thence is the Riuer Kinibeki : and from thence the Land trendeth North and South to Malabarre.  Authors place in that former extenfion of Land betwixt Eaft and Weft, a great Towne and faire Riuer, called Norombega, by the Sauages called Agguncia.  Thefe French Difcouerers vtterly denie this Hiftorie, affirming that there are but Cabans here and there made with perkes, and couered with barkes of trees, or with skins : and both the Riuer and inhabited place is called Pemtegoet, and not Agguncia.  And there can be no great Riuer (as they affirme) becaufe the great Riuer Canada hath (like an infatiable Merchant) engroffed all thefe water-commodities, fo that other ftreames are in manner but meere pedlers." (The eight Booke, pg. 751).
• "The Armouchiquois are a traiterous and theeuifh people, next vnneighbourly neighbours to the Etechemins : they are light-footed and lime fingered, as fwift in running away with their ftollen prey, as the Grey-hound in purfuing it.  Champlein teftifieth that the Armouchiquois are deformed, with little heads, fhort bodies, armes fmall like a bone, as are their thighs alfo ; their legges great and long and difproportioned with likeneffe of proportion: when they fit on their heeles, their knees are halfe a foost higher then their heads.  They are valiant and planted in the beft Countrie." (The eight Booke, pg. 751-752).
• "Monfieur du Point arriued in thofe parts in the yeare a thoufand fixe hundred and fine and du Monts remoued the French Habitation to the Port Royall, Monfieur de Pourtrincourt fayled thither in the yeare a thoufand fixe hundred and fix, and with him the Authour of the Booke called Noua Francia [Marke L'fcarbot], who hath written of the Ruiers and Cuftomes of thefe Countries.  He fayth, that the Armouchiquois are a great people, but haue no adoration.  They are vicious and bloudie.  Both they and the Souriquois haue the induftrie of painting and caruing, and doe make pictures of Birds, Beafts, and Men, both in ftone and wood, as well as the workmen in thefe parts.  They, as is faid, afcribe not diuine worfhip to any thing : but yet acknowledge fome fpirituall and inuifible power.  I know not by what Diuine Iuftice..." (The eight Booke, pg. 752).

• See annotations to the 1614 edition.

• This is the only edition of Samuel Purchas that includes the description of Mawooshen and Purchas's listing of the Indian villages of central coastal Maine (from what source? Rosier? the Native Americans who were kidnapped by Waymouth?).  This information derives from George Waymouth's 1605 voyage to Maine.  A transcript of Purchas's Description of Mawooshen is in the Ancient Dominions of Maine section.
• Joseph Williamson provides this notation (A Bibliography of the State of Maine, Vol. 2, pg. 334): "References to Voyages to Maine: Patent of the French king to M. de Monts. for the inhabiting of the countries of La Cadia, Canada, etc.  M. Lescarbot Voyage of M. de Monts into New France.  Collections out of a French Booke, called additions to Nova Francia, 1607-1611.  G. Archer, relation of Captain Gosnol's voyage to the north part of Virginia, 1602.  J. Rosier, notes on the same voyage.  M. Pringe, voyage for the discovery of the north part of Virginia, 1603.  Rosier. J., Virginian voyage, 1605, by George Waymouth.  Argall, S., voyage from Jamestown, Virginia, to Bermuda, and missing that, to Sagadahoc and Cape Cod, 1610.  T. Dermer's letter from Virginia (reaches Monhegan).  Discovery and plantation of New England from 1607-1622.

Robinson, John and Dow, George Francis. (1922). The sailing ships of New England, 1607-1907. Marine Research Society, Salem, MA.

Roosevelt, Theodore. (1889). The Winning of the West: Vol. I and II. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY. IS.

Roper, Stephen. (1880). Roper's questions and answers for engineers. Edward Meeks, Philadelphia, PA. IS.

• See the annotations in the Native American: Antiquarian sources bibliography.

• "The two collections of Captain John Smith's writings just cited [see Arber for the other] are not, of course, the only places in which one can find Smith's writings that touch upon Maine.  They are, however, two standard compilations, one or the other of which will probably be found in nearly all academic libraries and most reasonably good public libraries. The writings that will most interest the users of this guide are A Description of New England (1616), New England Trials (1620), Book Six of  The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624), much of which consists of reprints of his earlier writings on New England, and Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New England (1630).  A Description may also be found in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Third Series, Volume VI (1837), pp. 95-140, and Advertisements in the same series, Volume III (1833), pp. 1-53." (Clark, pg. 19).

Smith, Thomas Laurens. (1873). History of the town of Windham. Hoyt & Fogg, Portland, ME.

Snow, Edward Rowe. (1945). Famous lighthouses of New England. The Yankee Publishing Company, Boston, MA. IS.

Snow, Edward Rowe. (1971). The islands of Boston Harbor 1630 - 1971. Dodd, Mead & Company, NY. IS.

Starbuck, Alexander. (1878). History of the American whale fishery from its earliest inception to the year 1876. Washington, D.C. Reprinted in 1964 with a new preface by Stuart C. Sherman. Argosy-Antiquarian Ltd., NY, NY.

• See the annotations of this citation in the Native American: Principal Sources bibliography.

• Xerox of a few pages in stock

Weise, Arthur J. (1884). Discoveries of America to 1525. GP Putnam's Sons, NY.

• See our information file reproduction of a section of this book by James Rosier, A True Relation of Captain George Weymouth his Voyage. Made this Present Yeere 1605.

• The Davistown Museum has volumes I and III in stock.  The chapter "Norumbega and its English Explorers" by Benjamin F. DeCosta in Volume III has been scanned and is available on our website.

• This text contains a wealth of information on the Maine lumber industry.  It is frequently quoted by Richard G. Wood, in A History of Lumbering in Maine, The Maine Bulletin.