Excerpt from Documentary History of the State of Maine, Vol. 7: Containing the Farnham Papers; 1603 1688

In selecting the sources from which these documents have been taken, the method adopted has been to choose what seemed the best available text; in all cases the original, if that has been accessible, otherwise an authentic transcript or reprint.

The head-notes which accompany each document are mainly designed to give a history of the sources as well as their bearing upon Maine history.

A Special bibliography is also given in each case. The work of reading and investigation for that particular pur pose has been materially lightened by the use of Dr. Justin Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America; Channing and Hart's Guide to the Study of American History; and Hon. Joseph Williamson's Bibliography of Maine.

In the titles of documents the terms charter, patent and 0want are employed somewhat interchangeably in accordance with common usage or the reading of the text. No attempt has been made to discern a legal distinction between them.

A double set of dates is used until 1752, when the Julian calendar gave place to the Gregorian in England and Catholic Europe.

The work of compilation could not have been carried for ward to completeness without many favors, some of which have already been suggested. The wide range of obliga tions makes it difficult to enumerate them all. Before all others, grateful thanks are rendered to Professor Hart, whose wise counsel and kindly assistance have guided the work at every stage; to the late Dr. Justin Winsor, libra rian of Harvard University, for personal suggestions of great value on sources and authorities; to the. Harvard College Library for the generous management which makes all books in the department of American History directly accessible to students of the Historical Seminary; to Mr. Hubbard W. Bryant, librarian of the Maine Historical Society, for access to the Archives; to Dr. Samuel A. Green, librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the privilege of examining Colonial Letters and Papers, also for permission to make reprints from publications; to the Boston Athenaeum for the privilege of consulting The Acts of the Parliament of Scotland; and to Mr. Edmund L. Barton, librarian of the American Antiquarian Society at Worcester, for the opportunity to transcribe a notarial copy of the Pemaquid Patent.

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