this morning at the British Coffee House relating to Billeting Money; attended accordingly.

Feb. 24. This day Major Hill, Esq., Chadbourne and Gowen set out 'for home.

Feb. 25. This day my father set out for York with stores &c., &c. March 5. This day the Recruiters Billeting Roll was carried into the Counsell.

March 10. This day received Stephen Frosts wages from Col. Emery 1: 5: 3.

March 17. Sailed this morning at 2 o'clock with Capt. Bragden; arrived at York at 1 o'clock afternoon; Dined at Deacon Saywards.

York April ye 1, 1763. A fine, pleasant day But a vast Body of snow on the ground.

April 29. Began to plant and sow.

May 12. Capt. Thomas Bragden chosen Representative in ye Room of my Father.

May 17. This day Nathaniel Barrell came home after being absent 3 years, to the great joy of his wife and friends.

June 2. Last Wednesday being ye anniversary for the Election of Counsellors, my father was elected as one, and this day set out for Bos

ton.

June 17. This day my brother Joseph got home from hallifax after being absent about 14 months.

June 17. Received a letter from my father by Capt. Johnson Moulton, who had been absent more than 2 years.

June 19. This week the Superior Court set hear.

Aug. 11. This day is by the King set apart as a Day of thanksgiving on account of ye peace.

Jany. 19, 1764. This night at 12 o'clock Capt. Joseph Bragden sailed for Mt. Desert with his and Capt. Sawyer's familes on board.

Jany. 26. This day I was married to Mis. Elizabeth Ingraham, daughter of Mr. Edward and Mrs. Lydia Ingraham of York. She in the 20th & I in the 28th year of our age.

May 18. This day I moved my wife up to my father's house.

Oct. ye 29. Monday half after 11 o'clock my wife was delivered of a man child being married 9 months and in ye 3d day.

Nov. 4. This day carried my child forth to baptism; caled his name John.

Jany. 7, 1765. This day moved my family up to Newtown.

May 29, 1765. This day Thomas Haines and Abigail Bradbury were married at Portsmouth.

Jany. 18, 1766. William Bradbury was born.

York, Nov. 20, 1797. This day Theodore Simpson, son of deacon Joseph Simpson about 18 years old, was sent after a horse, and after looking a great part of the following night, was found the next day, hanging by the neck with ye bridle.

March 20, 1766. Last night about 1 o'clock my mother-in-law, Mrs.

Lydia Ingraham departed this life, and ye 22d was buried in ye New farm.

Feb. 11, 1770. This day Mrs. Mary Ingraham was found dead in her house; supposed died in a fit. Likewise Joseph Smith the night following. Both found in one day.

York, Sept. 27, 1770. This day Reverant Mr. George Whitefield preached hear.

Sept. 30, 1770. This day Rev. Mr. Whitefield departed this life at Newbury.

Joseph Bradbury (son of the writer) departed this life after about seven Days sickness of a fever and flux the 28th day of August 1778. A very sensible, beautiful, agreeable and pleasant child.

March 24, 1779. Joseph Bradbury ye second was born about 12 o'clock at night.

May 12, 1777.

Thisday Universally beloved Jothran Moulton De

parted this life, whose death is greatly lamented.

York, Dec. ye 3d, 1778. This day about 10 o'clock my honored father, John Bradbury, Esq., departed this life after about 8 days sickness of a fever, in the 82d year of his age, and on the 5th was Decently Enterd. This day my unkel Jabez Bradbury died.

July 13, 1781.

May 7, 1781.

Oct. 6, 1782.

Dorcas Bradbury was born after sun set.

This Day my Eldest sister Lucy Webber Departed this Life, after a long and painful sickness.

Dec. 10, 1786. This day my sister Mariah Simpson died after more than 3 years distress of mind, and but Little use of her reason great part of the time.

York, Sept. 28, 1787. This morning Mrs. Abigail Bradbury, my mother, Departed this life after a long and distressing condition, with a cancer in her thigh, aged 88 years and some weeks.

York, April 8, 1785. This Day went to mill with a handsled on the snow, it being 2 or 3 feet Deep and very Difficult walking.

The judgments of Heaven (are) heavy upon us, Vice and Wickedness reigning in triumph, Poverty and want Flourishing, Taxes and the poor increasing, old age and Death hastening, Trouble increasing upon us and god Departing from us.

July ye 8, 1783. Jotham Bradbury was born.

Jany ye 8, 1784. Ye above Joseph Bradbury departed this life after about 3 weeks sickness by a Distressing Cough.

Apr. 17, 1779. This day bought one bushel and half of corn of Samuel preble and paid him 30 dollars or Nine Pounds lawful money for the

same.

Jany. 27, 1761. This day my oldest daughter Lydia was married to Thomas Davenport of Hallowell.

Feb. 17, 1791. This day my son & son-in-law set out for Chester (Chesterville).

Feb. 16, 1800. This day my son-in-law and daughter arrive here after a year's absence with their fifth child.

Feb. 2 1791. Set out for Hallowell.

March 21, 1791. My son Joseph set out for Chester. (Chesterville). Births of my children

Aug. 31, 1801. Joseph Bradbury set out for Chester, perhaps for the last time.

June 14, 1806. This day my Brother Cotton Bradbury died in the 84, year of his age, sudden.

York, August 30, 1781. This day I was chosen by 20 out of 23 votes for a deacon in the first church of Christ in York.

York, July 11, 1802, This day Samuel Bradbury and Dorcas Remick ware married. May their Long Courtship be Rewarded with Peace in this Life and happiness in a future state.

Dec. 3, 1801. Paid Rev. Mr. Messenger in Cyder & for his paying constable Eliot Rayns my Tax for 1800 which was 7 dollars and 38 cents. June 28, 1812. David Bradbury and Sofia Chase were married. Oct. 28, 1813. Rufus Simpson and Dorcas Bradbury were married. York, July 11, 1821. This day my honored father, John Bradbury departed this life in the 85th year of his age, and on the 18th was decently Intered by me his youngest son David Bradbury.

SIR FERDINANDO GORGES AND HIS PROVINCE OF MAINE, INCLUDING THE CHARTER GRANTED TO HIM, HIS WILL, HIS LETTERS AND ALL OTHER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS, edited by James Phinney Baxter, Volume I, Boston, Mass., published by the Prince Society, pp, 260.

This is one of the most interesting and valuable historical volumes of the year. It gives the results of Mr. Baxter's researches in the British museum, in the office of public records, also at Plymouth, England, Bristol, Wraxall, Lambeth in the Bodlean library, at Thirlstane House, and many other places which he visited and where he became possessed of copies of original letters and documents bearing the signature of Gorges, numbering about two hundred. These are followed by a reprint with copious notes of a rare and interesting book published in London in 1622, called "A Brief Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England. The volume is illustrated, and two more are to follow upon the same subject.

COLLECTIONS OF THE VIRGINIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, volume x. The initial article of this volume, is a biographical sketch of Hon. Hugh Blair Grigsby, occupying twenty-seven pages. The remainder of the volume is taken up with the proceedings of the Virginia Federal constitution of 1788. Historically the volume is a valuable one.

MEMOIRS OF THE LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY, volume III. The entire volume is devoted to the campaigns around New York and Brooklyn in 1776, and forms a very interesting account of the early campaigns of the war for independence.

EDITORIAL ITEMS.

A private letter, with permission of the writer, is printed from Rev. John O. Fiske, D.D., of Bath. We are very sure that from a writer so wellinformed and so genial, our able contributors, Messrs. Elwell and Deane, will pardon the bluntness of his contradictions.

HON. GEORGE F. TALBOT, PORTLAND, ME.

BATH, April 18, 1890.

My Dear and Honored Classmate and Friend:· With the garrulousness of an old man who has little to do beside coughing, I desire in a gossipy way to congratulate you on the very interesting matter of your second quarterly number of historical collections. I have read them all with pleasure. But in the atrabiliousness of an old anatomy, struggling and groaning under mortal disease, I desire permission to say that I am moved with intense choler against Mr. Elwell for presuming to say in his valuable notice of Governor Lincoln Seventy-four years ago, when as yet no voice had been raised against slavery in this land, and to doubt its sacredness was the one unpardonable crime"; page 152.

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Why, what does this biographer mean? Old Doctor Sam. Hopkins of Newport, Rhode Island, published a strong sermon against the sin of slaveholding in 1776. The Quakers from their very origin, and in this country in 1688, openly and earnestly denounced slavery, and petitioned our first Congress against it. Five times before 1808 the Presbyterian General Assembly denounced the sin of slavery in good set terms. At the very first meeting of the Methodist General Conference in 1784, similar testimony was unanimously given, and orders were passed that ministers holding slaves should be expelled! Before the revolution Virginia petitioned Parliament that no more slaves should be sent into the colony. In 1787 slavery was excluded, by vote of Congress, from the northwest territory. Mr. Jefferson, who voted for that ordinance, “trembled when he remembered that God was just," etc., etc., etc. What does Brother Elwell mean?

So I would have told Llewellyn Deane, whose sketch of his father is so valuable, that there never was a prominent lawyer in this state named John Orr. It was Benjamin of Topsham and Brunswick whom he should have named.

Our old friend, Cyrus Woodman, is well discussed.

But enough. I wish it were in my power to get up to some of the Historical Society meetings and to Portland. Affectionately yours,

JOHN O. FISKE.

DANFORTH'S DEED TO THE TOWN OF YORK.

But there is very grave doubt whether there ever was, in fact, any such deed. It is not recorded chronologically; nor is it revealed by a search of the present imperfect index to the deeds still tolerated in use by York County; the present town clerk knows nothing of it; it is not mentioned by either Sullivan or Williamson. Who ever saw it? Who made the above alleged abstract from it? It is, of course, possible that such a deed was executed to trustees for the town, as alleged, and that it may have been destroyed with the other papers in the Indian raid of 1692, without having gone upon the county records; but, even in that case, it is very peculiar that it was not known to Sullivan or Williamson, or at any rate, not considered worthy of mention by them."

Ante pp. 222, 223.

The writer of the query referred to had the good fortune, while searching the indices of the Massachusetts Historical Society's Proceedings (x-164) to find that David Sewall, who was for many years town clerk of York, had made and presented to the above Society copies of various papers of historical importance, and that among these papers was a copy of the above deed which purported to be “copied from the Record in York Town Book 500 &c."

On visiting Boston and making examination of Mr. Sewall's copies, this copy was found, and the librarian of that Society, Hon. Samuel A. Green, courteously promised to either furnish a copy for publication in the Maine Historical Society's Collections and Proceedings, or to make the paper the subject of a communication, so that in some way it might become available. This copy is embodied in Dr. Green's communication, as printed in the Proceedings of the Meeting of the Massachusetts Historical Society, held April 10, 1890. W. M. S.

ume.

No proceedings of the Maine Historical Society appear in this volThe next in order for publication are the proceedings in honor of Professor Packard, too long for the space allowed in the present number, but too interesting to be abbreviated or partly printed. They will appear in the October issue.

SINCE the issue of our last quarterly number the Maine Historical Society has suffered a severe loss in the death of one of its most efficient members, Hon. William Goold of Windham. He was a most indefatigable explorer among all the accessible materials of our state and national history, a copious and facile writer, whose many and important papers have enriched our collections, and a punctual attendant of all the meetings of the Society. It will be difficult to find in our membership the man, who will take up the pen he has laid down, and carry on the work in which he took so delighted an interest. More formal and complete notice of his character and work will appear later in our publications.