2 There is much manuscript material on early Maine in the Devon Record Office and the Exeter City Library. Some of it has been published in Robert E. Moody, ed., The Letters of Thomas Gorges, Deputy Governor of the Province of Maine, 1640-1643 (Portland, Me., 1978); see also Daniel Vickers, “Work and Life on the Fishing Periphery of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1675,” CSMP 63 (1984), 83-118; Edwin A. Churchill, “The Founding of Maine, 1600-1640: A Revisionist Interpretation,” MEHSQ 18 (1978), 21-54; Charles E. Clark, “The Founding of Maine, 1600-1640, A Comment,” MEHSQ 18 (1978), 55-62.
3“Maverick,” NEHGR 69 (1915), 146-59.
4 Clifford K. Shipton, Roger Conant (Cambridge, 1945).