1607/05/31 |
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Plymouth Company's expedition of about 120 men and boys departs Plymouth, England in two ships the GIFTE OF GOD and MARY AND JOHN. Consisting of mostly discharged soldiers, ventures include shipwrights, coopers, carpenters and "gentlemen of quality". |
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1607/08/13 |
Virginia Company |
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Virginia Company of Plymouth's ship, the GIFTE OF GOD, arrives at the mouth of the Sagadahoc River (today's Kennebec River). |
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Settling the American Colonies |
1607/08/16 |
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Virginia Company of Plymouth's ship, the MARY AND JOHN, arrives at the mouth of the Sagadahoc River. |
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1607/10/08 |
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John Hunt drafts a map of the Popham Colony's Ft St George showing a star-shaped fort with ditches and ramparts, and 18 buildings including the "Admirals howse", a chapel, a storehouse, a cooperage and a guardhouse. |
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1607/12/15 |
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Food shortages force over half of the Popham settlers to be evacuated back to England aboard the GIFTE OF GOD. Two died on the ill-provision voyage home through the Azores. |
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1608/01/00 |
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Popham Colony is assaulted by "thunder, lightning, rain, frost, snow all in abundance, the last continuing." |
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1608/02/05 |
Raleigh Gilbert |
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Colony leader George Popham dies of natural causes. Raleigh Gilbert becomes "colony president". |
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1608/03/00 |
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Supplies arrive from Topsham, Devon, England and brings news that colony financial supporter Sir John Popham has died. |
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1608/05/00 |
Raleigh Gilbert |
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The MARY AND JOHN returns to Popham Colony with supplies and the news that colony leader Raleigh Gilbert's older brother John has died. Raleigh returns to England. |
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1608/05/00 |
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Plymouth colonists begin Maine's long tradition of shipbuilding by building the VIRGINIA, a 51 foot pinnace, 1607-1608. |
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1608/10/17 |
Virginia Company |
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The 45 remaining colonists abandon Popham Colony and sail home on the MARY AND JOHN and VIRGINIA. The Plymouth Company soon becomes inactive. |
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1888/00/00 |
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A researcher for an American diplomat finds John Hunt's map of Fort St George in government archives in Madrid. The map was likely stolen, or copied, by a Spanish spy soon after it arrived in England in 1608. |
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1994/00/00 |
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Using John Hunt's map, Jeffrey P Brain, an archaeologist with the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, leads excavations on Sabino Head, a windy promontory on the Kennebec, where they find the remains of the Lost Popham Colony. |
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