by the General Court; nor did he show any disposition to regard the authority of government, until Massachusetts also proclaimed him a rebel, and set a good price upon his head; then he submitted rather than lose his life. It was doubtless this troublesome character for whom a rhymer of those days intended the following epitaph :

"Here lies Bonythew, the Sagamore of Saco;

He lived a rogue, and died a knave, and went to Hobbowocko." Mr. Foxwell continued to reside at Blue Point until the time of his death, which was in the latter part of the year 1676. He lived to the ripe old age of seventy-three years, more than forty of which were spent in carefully improving his estate at Blue Point, which was one of the largest and most valuable in town. Mr. Foxwell was not so active in the political contests of his day as some others of the principal townsmen, yet he bore no small share of public honors and duties. His first public service was as a member of the "General Assembly of Lygonia" in 1648. He also served as one of the Commissioners for the town in 1664 and 1668, and was "Clerk of the writs" for Scarborough during the years 1658 and 1665, and was again elected in 1668, but being contented with the superior office of Commissioner, he declined the clerkship. He appears to have been a quiet, peaceble man, and by no means desirous of office. His wealth, his honorable connection with the family of Capt. Bonython, and above all his many good qualities, enabled him to exert a considerable influence in the Province. John Jocelyn has recorded in his "Voyages to New England" the following

• Folsom's Saco and Biddeford-Hobbowocko, as he is here styled, was the Satan of the Indians. John Jocelyn in his "Voyages" says of the Maine Indians: "They acknowledge a God whom they call Squantaw, but worship him they do not because (they say) he will do them no harm. But Abbowocko, or Cheepie, many times 'smites them with incurable diseases, scares them with his apparitions and panic terrors, by reason where of they ive in a wretched consternation worshipping the Devil for fear."

singular story, which he had from the lips of Foxwell himself. "Foxwell having been to the eastward in a shallop, on his return. he was overtaken by the night, and fearing to land on the barbarous shore, put off a little farther to sea About midnight they were awakened by a loud voice from the shore calling Foxwell! Foxwell! come ashore!' three times. Upon the sands they saw a great fire and men and women hand in hand dancing round about it in a ring. After an hour or two they vanished, and as soon as the day appeared Foxwell put into a small cove and traced along the shore, where he found the footsteps of men, women and children shod with shoes, and an infinite number of brands' ends thrown up by the water; but neither Indians nor English could he meet with on the shore nor in the woods!" This incident savors much of fairy mythology. It was doubtless well for Foxwell that he did not answer the call by going ashore; else he might have found that Puck himself, the very ringleader of mischievous spirits had followed him over from England. But the Faries never emigrated with the early settlers of this country, and therefore our explanation will not do. We will leave each reader of the story to solve its mystery for himself, only reminding him how true it has often proved to be, that, as Jocelyn remarks, "there are many stranger things in the world than are to be seen between London and Stanes." Of Foxwell's three sons, John, Richard, and Philip, only John left issue. He had one child, Nathaniel, at whose death the male branch of the family became extinct. Philip was one of the town's selectmen for the year 1681. He removed to Kittery in 1690, and died there the same year. Richard died in 1664. Our worthy settler's five daughters were all of them married, and many of their decendants live in this vicinity."

Of these daughters Esther married Thomas Rogers of Goose-fair in 1757, who left two sons, Richard and John. Lucretia married James Robinson of Blue Point, and removed to Newcastle, N. H. about 1676. Their children were four daughters, three of whom married. Susannah, the third

Mr. Henry Watts went from Saco to Blue Point in company with Mr. Foxwell in 1636, and established himself upon the plantation adjoining Foxwell's. Of Watts we know less than of some others of the first settlers. It is quite difficult to make out the whole character of any of them from the scanty materials now left us. If we can, by means of the few facts on record, get true impressions of the general character of each, we shall do well. But the attempt to judge them upon such slight evidence is full of danger; as will be apparent if one considers how improbable it is that men's good deeds will be discovered by perusing court records. We get an occasional glimpse of Watts throughout the earliest record of the Province; but generally under circumstances unfavorable for judging of his character. The first notice of him occurs in the proceedings of the court of September 15th, 1640, when he was presented with one Frethy for "carrying of bords" on the Sabbath Watts, in common with many others of the planters seems to have had some trouble with Robert Jordan, the famous minister of Spurwink. Jordan

daughter, married John Ashton, of Blue Point, afterwards of Marblehead, Mary married George Norton, of York; Sarah, Joseph Curtis, Esq., of Kittery, High Sheriff &c., 1678; and their daughter Eunice married Richard Cutts of Kittery, by whom she had seven sons and three daughters. It appears from the following interesting letter, copied from Vol. 29 of the Massachusetts Historical Collection, that Foxwell returned to England soon after his first arrival in this country, which was probably during 1630 : PASCATAQUE, April 18, 1633.

*SIK: There arrived a fishing ship at Pascataque about the 15th of this present moneth wherein is one Richard Foxwell, who hath formerly lived in this cuntery-he bringeth nuse that there were tow (2) shipes making ready at Barnstaple whoe are to bring passengers and catell for to plant in the Bay he hath letters for Mr. Wearon and divers others at Dorchester which he intends to bring into the bay so soone as possible he can-likewise he heard from Mr. Alerton whoe was making ready at Bristol for to come for this cuntery other nuse he bringeth not that I can heare of only Mr. Borowes purposeth to come for this cuntery from Lonon &c. &c."

WILLIAM KILTON."

For a transcript of the above, and for many other particulars relating to Foxwell, the writer is indebted to the kindness of J. Wingate Thornton, Esq. of Boston.

had somehow been the means of bringing about a temporary separation of Watts from his wife. Why or how this was done does not appear, but from the following record it seems to have been a transaction not altogether to Watts' liking. The Court was held November 7th, 1665, and the words of the record alluded to are these: "Mr. Henry Watts haveing some discourse with Mr. Jordan, in the presence of this Court, did utter these words, that such as the sayd Jordan was did much mischeefe as hee conceaved, haveing their discourse about keeping away Henery Watts his wife from him." Whether the worthy Recorder of the Court meant to sanction this as a true estimate of Jordan's character by preserving it on the records, may perhaps be doubted; but as there is no allusion to these words in any of the subsequent proceedings of the Court the object of the record is apparent. Jordan was at that time one of the Justices appointed by the King's Commissioners, and no doubt was trying his new authority upon his less distinguished neighbor. While George Cleeves of Falmouth held jurisdiction as deputy president of Lygonia, under Rigby, he endeavored to deprive the Blue Point planters of the privilege of holding their lands by titles procured from Bonython, and claimed the right to dispose of them by grants in the name of Rigby. There is no evidence that any of the planters there yielded to Cleeves,. except Watts, who took a grant of one hundred acres adjoining his house. This method of acknowledging Rigby's government was adopted by Watts merely for the purpose of pacifying Cleeves; for there is no doubt that he could have retained his lands under Bonython's grant, as his neighbors did, but there is much doubt whether Cleeves would have allowed him the least quiet in his possessions.

In the year 1673, Watts sold one-half of the whole of his plantation, including the small grant from Cleeves, to Ralph Allison. At the same time he conveyed to Allison one half of his mill, "the whole to be maintained at equal cost." This mill

was one of the earliest built in the town, and was situated on "Foxwell's Brook" on the Western side of the Point. In his deed to Allison, Watts styles himself "of Black Point, alias Scarborough in the village wee call COCKELL." The origin and meaning of this name have escaped our enquiries. It is evidently a village nickname, much like those frequently heard at the present day. Another record respecting Watts, affords a good illustration of the jealous care with which even the town Commissioners of those days guarded their official reputation. The Commissioners for Scarborough and Falmouth in 1659 were Jocelyn, Jordan, Cleeves, Neale, and Watts. The latter was so unfortunate as to offend the dignity of the others, and, notwithstanding he was himself a Commissioner, was presented at the next Court "for abuse of the Governor, and also for scandalizing the rest of the Commissioners by saying that they had sent scandalous letters into the Bay." The alledged scandal against the Commissioners is the last item in the presentment, but at the trial was considered of the first importance. So much for "freedom of speech" in Maine in the seventeenth century. A hundred similar illustrations of the same might be selected from the Records. Watts took an active part in the political affairs of the Province, and of the town. He held a long succession of public offices, in all of which he appears to have acquitted himself in a manner equally honorable to himself, and the town which he represented. He was a member of the General Assembly of the Province of Ligonia held in 1648.* He was was also a commissioner under Massachusetts, in 1658; commissioner and constable 1659; constable for Scarborough 1660; commissioner 1661 and 1662; and again chosen commis

The "Province of Ligonia," so called, was within the Province of Maine. The origin of this novelty of a Province within a Province, and the confusion that arose from this double government, will be noticed hereafter. Ligonia consisted of the settlements between Cape Porpoise and Casco, thus including Blue Point and Black Point.