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gregation, but also found favour with the younger, and particularly 
in the eyes of the richest, and, let us hope, the most accomplished 
of his hearers ; to wit, fair Sarah Winter, the only daughter of 
John Winter, the grave and discreet agent of the governor, his 
patron. This is neutral ground, and the young parson is rather to 
be commended for his worldly wisdom ; but the rest is not so 
pleasing. Trelawny died, as you will remember, in 1644, in prison, 
and his property was confiscated. Winter died in 1645, leaving 
the Rev. Robert Jordan, his son-in-law, his executor or adminis- 
trator. Funds had ceased to come from England, and a debt 
against Trelawny's executor was piled up with painful minuteness. 
The debt under legal process was driven home ; and, as if to hoist 
a man with his own petard, nearly the last item of the account 
inserted, not perhaps unjustly, but to say the least ungenerously, 
was the legacy of £12, given as a mark of respect by Robert 
Trelawny to his friend John Winter. The rest of the story is 
soon told. In 1648, by the decree of the general assembly of the 
Court of Lygonia, it was ordered " that it shall be lawful for the 
said petitioner, Robert Jordan, his heir, executor, administrator, and 
assigns, to retain, occupy to his and their proper use and profit, to 
convert all the goods, lands, cattle, and chattels belonging to Robert 
Trelawney deceased within this province, from this day forward 
and forever." 1 So the riches of Robert Trelawny in America took 
to themselves wings and flew away, and over his possessions Robert 
Jordan reigned in his stead. The extent of the Trelawny grant 
was probably about 12,000 acres, which is upwards of eighteen 
square miles. This is the tradition in the family; and by the records 
which have been preserved we know that two of the adjoining 
grants were of 12,000 acres. And this tradition is singularly con- 
firmed. On reference to the will of Robert Jordan it is found that 
he parcelled out among his family about 6,000 or 7,000 acres, 
having already provided sufficiently for his two eldest sons, so that 
by this computation it may not unfairly be regarded that 12,000 
acres is not far wrong. 
By way of conclusion of this part of my narrative, it may 
be interesting to refer to a description of the colonists given by 
John Jocelyn, who visited them in 1670, who says: "The 
people in the province of Maine may be divided into magistrates, 
husbandmen, or planters, and fishermen. Of the magistrates, some 
1 1 Coll. Maine His. Soc. p. 540. 
