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The first patent establishing the Province of Maine was granted on August 10, 1622 to Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason by the Plymouth Council for New England, which itself had been granted a royal patent by James IJames VI of Scotland and I of England (Charles James) ( 19 June 1566 27 March 1625) was a King who ruled over England, Scotland and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously. He ruled in Scotland as James VI from 24 to the coast of North America between the 40th to the 48th parallel "from sea to sea". This first patent encompassed the coast between the MerrimackThe Merrimack River (sometimes spelled Merrimac River is a 110-mile-long (177-kilometer-long) river in the northeastern United States. It rises in central New Hampshire at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesaukee rivers, flows southward into M and KennebecThe Kennebec River is a river, 150 mi (240 km) long, in the state of Maine in the northeastern United States. It rises in Moosehead Lake in northern Maine and flows southward past the cities of Madison, Skowhegan, Waterville, the state capital Augusta, an rivers, as well as an irregular parcel of land betweent the headwaters of the two rivers. In 1629Events March 4 Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter. June 4: The VOC ship Batavia runs aground west of Australia. March 10 Charles I of England dissolves Parliament starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament. End of, Gorges and Mason agreed to split the patent at the Piscataqua RiverPortsmouth, New Hampshire The Piscataqua River is a river in the northeastern United States. It is a 12 mi (19 km) long tidal estuary formed by the confluence of the Salmon Falls and Cocheco rivers, and flows southeastward, forming part of the boundary be, with Mason retaining the land south of the river as the Province of New HampshireThe New Hampshire Colony was the product of several English land grants dating from 1623 to 1680, and for much of its colonial history was subject to the Massachusetts Colony and its leadership in Boston. The colony's first settlements were at Little Harb.
The first Province of Maine failed, however, because of lack of funds and colonial settlement.
In 1639Events January 14 Connecticut's first constitution, the " Fundamental Orders," is adopted. March 13 Harvard University is named for a clergyman named John Harvard. November 24 Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus. Charles I starts the first of Gorges obtained a renewed patent, the Gorges Patent , for the area betweent he Piscataqua and Kennebec Rivers, in the form of a royal charter from Charles I of EnglandCharles I ( 19 November 1600 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 27 March 1625, until his death. He famously engaged in a struggle for power with Parliament; he was an advocate of the divine right of kings, but his foes in Parl. The area was roughly the same as that covered in the 1622 patent after the 1629 split with Mason. The second colony also foundered for lack of money and settlers.