For 10 points, in 1678 Gorges sold his patent for a colony in what state, which was purchased by Massachusetts Bay and controlled from Boston until 1820?
One colony established in the territory of this state was the result of Alexander Ridley buying the Plough Grant on behalf of George Cleeve, who founded Lygonia as part of his dispute with the Trelawney plantation governed by John Winter. A more commercially successful colonization effort in what is now this state was the town of Kittery, which served as a base for the portion of the Laconia Company established east of the Piscataqua River on land that the colonial proprietor Ferdinando Gorges called New Somersetshire. The Richmond's Island colony founded in what is now this state was established under the aegis of the Plymouth Council for New England. The mouth of the Kennebec River was home to the failed Popham Colony in this state and Christopher Levett failed in his attempt to establish a colony in this state's Casco Bay. For 10 points, in 1678 Gorges sold his patent for a colony in what state, which was purchased by Massachusetts Bay and controlled from Boston until 1820? 
One colony established in the territory of this state was the result of Alexander Ridley buying the Plough Grant on behalf of George Cleeve, who founded Lygonia as part of his dispute with the Trelawney plantation governed by John Winter.
Maine