1687, Richard Wharton, Boston merchant, Owner of Maine, signed document

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1687, Richard Wharton, Boston merchant, Owner of Maine, signed document:
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This is a wonderful, original document, dated 1687, where Richard Wharton and James Jennings have signed a deposition of costs spent by Captain Thomas Hamilton of the frigate Kings Fisher, expended by Thomas Winell pursor, as witnessed by James Jennings. Signed by Jennings at lower right and by Wharton at left . Document is 8x14, details the expenses of the frigate with deposition at bottom. Overall good condition. Could be the expenses of the Frigate King Fisher when Wharton returned to England in arrived on the New England coast, and Sir Edmund Andros, glittering in scarlet and lace, landed at Boston, December 20, of all New England, with companies of soldiers brought from Europe to supporthisclaims. Forthwith he marched to the town house and made a “short speech.\" At a meeting of the council the next day, “all members of the late government were summoned to meet at Boston on the 30th inst.” A surrender of the charters of Rhode Island and Connecticut was demanded. The new government was organized on the day appointed, and proclamation was made that “all officers, both civil and military, should be continued in their places of trust, and that the laws notrepugnantto the laws of England, shouldbe continuedand observed duringhisexcellency\'s pleasure.”

In 1687,His Majesty\'sFrigateKingFisherfrom was noted at sail from Cape Ann to Nantucket.In May,1687,Charlestown, Massachusetts,there was a riot in town between some of the crew of thefrigate“KingFisher” and some of the inhabitants. One of the constables, Timothy Phillips, “commanded the King\'s peace in the King\'s name,” whereupon the captain of thefrigate,wrested his staff from him, and made a pass at him

Richard Wharton (b ca 1636 - d 1689) was an English merchant adventurer largely concerned with purchase of lands in Maine. He sued Edward West in 1671, bought the Pejepscot Patent in 1683-4, and had a further large grant of land from Mass. Bay Colony. He was appointed by Sir Edmund Andros to be a member of his Council, but, quarreling with Andros, he went home in July 1687 to oppose him, and d. at London 14 May 1689.

Richard Wharton, A Boston merchant, an Englishman by birth and education, conceived the plan of establishing a “manor” after the style of English gentlemen, and for that purpose bought, July 4, 1683, of the heirs of Purchase and Way the land covered by their patent of 1632, as well as lands bought by Purchase of the Indian sagamores. In this purchase of Wharton was included the claim of John Shapleigh. The price paid the Purchase heirs was one hundred and fifty pounds, thirty of which was paid down and the remainder was to be paid when the heirs furnished a copy of the patent given to Purchase and Way. There can be no doubt but the copy of the patent was produced, for we find him in 1687, making payments on account of his purchase, satisfied with the “conformation he had obtained in right of said Purchase and Way for said patent.” Wharton’s claim includes the whole of Harpswell, except a few islands, the greater part of Brunswick, and a part of Topsham. But this tract of land, extensive as it was, did not satisfy the Englishman’s manorial ideas, for he sought and obtained from Worombee and five other sagamores of the Androscoggin tribe, a large tract of land on both sides of the Androscoggin river and extending to the “uppermost falls in said Androscoggin river.” ...

Shortly after this transfer Wharton sailed for England for the purpose of securing from the crown a recognition of his claim and the authority to establish a manor in the then “Province of Mayne.” But this magnificent enterprise failed, Wharton having died (May, 1689) before the proper authority could be obtained.

Richard Wharton was a very active man, who at different periods was concerned in trade with the West Indies, with mining operations, and with land speculations in Maine and in the Narragansett country. He was a member of the Council of Sir Edmund Andros, but, becoming one of the latter\'s strongest opponents, went to England in 1687 to complain of him. He died in London, May 14, 1689, leaving his affairs much embarrassed.

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