Excerpt from History of Monmouth and Wales About this time, serious troubles arose between the settlers and the proprietors of the Plymouth Patent, which comprised, in addition to all the land in Monmouth and Wales, a large number of the townships lying east and west of the Kennebec river. Many of the early set tlers had taken up land under the supposition that they were free and, after expending years of hard labor on them, had been forced to relinquish them to the lawful, if not rightful, owners, without remuneration for the im provement they had effected. Others who had bought out the claims of the squatters at a fair price, were called upon to pay exorbitant sums for the lands that were all but worthless before the improvements were made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.