The English first appropriated Abenaki land in 1622 when King James I granted two Englishmen "all that part or porcon of that country now commonly called New-England," including every island within 100 miles of the coast and "all the lands, soyle, grounds, havens, ports, rivers, mines, ... minerals, pearls and pretious stones, woods, queries, marshes waters, fishings, hunting, hawking, fowling, commodities and hereditaments whatsoever." Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason agreed to split the vast tract along the Piscataqua River (still known by its Abenaki name "pesgatak was", for "the water looks dark"). Gorges took the tract to the east and named it Maine. Mason took the land to west and named it New Hampshire. The region was first named "N'dakinna". It is the traditional ancestral homeland of the Abenaki, Pennacook and Wabanaki peoples.