Nice slant Barry, but, as Harry Truman said, "Lets take a look at the facts." The original Mass.Bay colony consisted mostly of the district of Maine. Maine covers an area of over 30,000 square miles. Mass. is just 8,000 sq. miles. Now, going by that, what was part of what? Furthermore, we wernt "let go" we escaped!! Hooray for the Missouri Compromise. Of course they have not forgiven us, and, they are buying Maine back one house lot at a time!! put um up..put um up LOL