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    69°47′18″W / 43.7532°N 69.7884°W / 43.7532; -69.7884 The Popham Colony—also known as the Sagadahoc Colony—was a short-lived English colonial settlement in North...
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    north bank of the James River and Popham Colony on the Kennebec River in modern-day Maine, both in 1607. The Popham colony quickly failed because of famine...
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    into other colonies included the failed Popham Colony (1607) on the coast of Maine, and the Wessagusset Colony (1622–23) in Weymouth, Massachusetts, whose...
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    Company established the one-year Popham Colony in present-day Maine in 1607, the northern answer to Jamestown Colony. Two ships, the Gift of God and Mary...
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  • James Davis (mariner) (category Popham Colony)
    the Virginia Company of Plymouth which established the short-lived Popham Colony, also called "Northern Virginia." Davis was master of the ship Mary...
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    the mouth of the Morse River. It is near the site of the short-lived Popham Colony, founded in 1607 and abandoned the following year. The beach and the...
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    peninsula also is the site of historic Fort Popham, historic Fort Baldwin, and the remnants of the Popham Colony. "Popham Beach State Park". Department of Agriculture...
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    the short-lived Popham Colony and, like the colony, named for George Popham, the colony's leader. The site is preserved as Fort Popham State Historic Site...
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    Virginia (pinnace) (category Popham Colony)
    Sagadahoc was a pinnace built in 1607 and 1608 by English colonists at the Popham Colony. The ship was a project of the Plymouth Company, branch of the proprietary...
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    Dakota. The area was explored in 1607 by English settlers from the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec River. Before European settlement, Algonquian-speaking...
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    colonization in America. Popham Colony, also known as Fort St. George, was organized by the Plymouth Company (unrelated to Plymouth Colony) and founded in 1607...
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    Kentisbury of Huntworth. His nephews included George Popham, founder of Popham Colony (of which Sir John was one of the principal financial backers) and Sir...
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  • States state of Maine has a tangled colonial history. After the failed Popham Colony of 1607–08, portions of Maine's territory were styled the Province of...
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    charter in 1606 as the Plymouth Company and had founded the short-lived Popham Colony within the territory of northern Virginia (actually in present-day Maine...
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    settlement named Sagadahoc Colony, better known as Popham Colony (see symbol "Po" on map to right) to honor financial backer Sir John Popham. The colonists faced...
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  • Popham may refer to: Popham, Devon, a location in England Popham, Hampshire, a small hamlet in the southern United Kingdom The Popham Colony, a short-lived...
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    North America, specifically the Roanoke Colony (Lost Colony) and the Popham Colony, unless there was a major relief effort. The Germans who arrived with...
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    Wildlife Refuge. The town includes part of Winnegance. Site of the Popham Colony, Phippsburg was—between 1607 and 1608—the first known English settlement...
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    the Indian massacre of 1622. Popham Colony: on 13 August 1607, the Virginia Company of Plymouth settled the Popham Colony along the Kennebec River in present-day...
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  • Nantaskut in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The ships Gift of God captained by John Elliott and led by George Popham, and Mary and John, captained by Robert...
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    royal colony in 1691 Popham Colony, established in 1607; abandoned in 1608 Plymouth Colony, established in 1620; merged with Massachusetts Bay Colony in...
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    English colony at Cape Ann was first founded in 1623. It was the fourth colonizing effort in New England after Popham Colony, Plymouth Colony and Nantasket...
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    Dugua, Sieur de Mons. The first English settlement was the short-lived Popham Colony, established by the Plymouth Company in 1607. A number of English settlements...
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  • by the Plymouth Company founded a settlement in Maine in 1607 (the Popham Colony at Phippsburg), but it was abandoned the following year. A French trading...
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  • Royal (Annapolis Royal) – French 1607 – Jamestown – English 1607 – Popham Colony – English 1608 – Quebec – French 1610 – Cuper's Cove – English 1610...
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  • referred to Dochet Island would be "Ste. Croix Island".: 2  Maine portal Popham Colony Habitation at Port-Royal List of islands of Maine National Register...
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    The Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, commonly known as British Kenya or British East Africa, was part of the British Empire in Africa from 1920 until...
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    Sea Venture (category Colony of Virginia)
    Jamestown seemed doomed to meet the same fate as the Roanoke Colony and the Popham Colony, two earlier failed English attempts to settle in North America...
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    first known visit of Europeans to the region. In 1607, the English Popham Colony was established in what is now Phippsburg; it was abandoned a year later...
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  • (excavations continue for 10 months). Work by Jeffrey P. Brain on the Popham Colony ends (began in 1994) Start of the three-year Bombay Before the British...
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