Begin at the Beginning: A Plentiful country - Letters from Maine’s Thomas Gorges

“The Country heer is plentiful,” Thomas Gorges wrote home to England from Maine, where he had been sent in 1641 to establish a government and legal system. Gorges’ forthright, vivid, and dynamic letters provide us with a unique window onto colonial New England just at a time when England was moving into civil war. Join Abby Chandler in exploring these rare first-hand accounts.