An Old Town by the Sea (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from An Old Town by the Sea For Portsmouth, as the years in America are reckoned, is a very aged place. The pic turesque banks of the Piscataqua were ex plored first in 1603 by Martin Pring, followed in eleven years by the romantic and adventu rous John Smith, to whose memory a shaft was in later years erected upon one of the Isles of Shoals. It was Smith who prepared and laid before Prince Charles a map of this seacoast, whereupon that scion of royalty gave to the country the name of New England. In 1623 John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges, friends of Smith's, securing a grant of land comprising what is now New Hampshire, sent out a settling party. In 1631 an additional party came and built the Great House, the first building to be put up in Portsmouth. In 1653 the township was incorporated under this name. So Ports mouth is very old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.