SIR FERDINANDOE GORGES, Knighte, Lorde of the Province of Mayne, within the Territories of Newe-England in America, send greetinge: Whereas our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Majestie that nowe is by his Highness letters Patente under the greate seale of England bearinge date at Westminster the third daye of Aprill in the fifteenth yeare of his Majesties Raigne of England &c: hath created mee the said Sir Ferdinando Gorges absolute Lord of the said Province of Mayne, and thereby hath given unto mee & my heires absolute power and authoritie over the said province & of all the lands within the precincts and bounds of the same and over all the Inhabitants and people that from time to time shall bee resident and abidinge within the lymitts and precincts of the said Province for the welfare and good government of all his Majesties lovinge Subjects that shall have recourse unto the same.

And whereas his said Majestie by the same letters Patents hath further given and granted unto mee, my heirs and assignes full power leave licence and authoritie to erect raise and build from tyme to tyme in the Province Territories and Coasts aforesaid and every or Platformes, ever, and the same and every of them to fortifie and furnishe with men, ordinal, ponds of hot ar our ant dil ocean ofens whatsoever as to mee my heires and assignes or any of them, shall seeme meete and convenient And likewise to commit from tyme to tyme the government Custodie and defence thereof unto such person and persons as to mee my heires and assignes shall seeme meete And to the severall Citties Burroughes and Townes to grante letters or Charters of Incorporacons with all liberties and thinges belonginge to the same And in the said several Citties Burroughes & Townes to constitute such a soe many Marketts, Marts and faiers, And to grante such meere tolles Customes Dueties and priviledges to or with the same as by mee my heires and assignes shall be thoughte fitt, as in and by the said letters Patents amongst Diverse and sundrie other priv ilidges, liberties, freedomes and jurisdicons therein Conteined more playlie and at large it doth and may appeare/

Nowe knowe yee that I the said Sir Ferdinandoe Gorges, havinge alreadie (through God's assistance) setled the said Province and inhabitants ther of in a hopefull way of governmente, And beinge de-sireous by all good wail and ways to further and advance the sane the said Province and to incorporate, the same and to appoynte there ando such Officers and Courtes of Justice and such liberties privil des and Jur Orons and Courtes of Jice spressent particulari ses forth and declared And here ahter or heis premy hires and assignes graunte and establishe the Circuite of the said Incorporacon within the Province aforesaid shall extend from the beginninge of the entrance in of the River Commonlie called and knowne by the name of Aga-menticus & soe up the said River seaven Englishe myles, and all along the Easte & North Last side of the Sea-shore three Englishe Myles, in bredth from the entrance of said River and up into the mayne-Land seaven myles buttinge with the seaven myles from the sea sideup the said River the bredth of three myles opposite thereunto/ And that the said Cittie or Towne shalbe erected and builte in such place of the said Lymitts as shalbe thoughte most convenient by the assent of the deputie of the said Province, the Steward generall thereof, and the Maior and Justices of the seid Cittie or Towne for the tyme beinge/

And to the end that the said Cittie or Towne and bounds or Lymitts of the Incorporacon before sett forth and described may remain and for ever hereafter be more perticulerlie knowne and distinguished, My Will is that the same from henceforth bee nominated termed and called by the name of Gorgeana/ And by that name of Gorgeana the said Circuite Precinctes Lymitt and place aforesaid I doe by theis presents I doe for mee my heires and assignes name call erect found and establishe, and by that name to have continewance for ever/

In Witness whereof I the said Sir Ferdinando Gorges have here-yeare ot my hand and seale the first day of March in the seaventeenth Yead off the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles by the grace of Faith &c/ (1641) God of England Scotland Sane and Tand Kinge Defender of the Faith &c (1641) (A seal appendant)

Source: Banks, History of York, Maine, Book I, p. 440
Submitted by: Kevin Freeman