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Popam colony (Popam Colonial, British: Popham Colony) is a British colony in North America, which was established in 1607 and ended in a short life. Established by the Primus Virginia Company (Primas Company), which gathered shareholders, it was located near the mouth of the Keneveck River, the current town of Fipsburg, Maine. It was a rival and a more successful James Town pioneer in the same year. The James Town State was established by the London Virginia Company (London company) on June 14, 1607 in James City County, Virginia, and as the first permanent British pioneer in the United States.
Popam colonies were the first British colonies in areas, later called New England. The colony was abandoned just a year later, because the family of the leadership was clearly more than the lack of success in the New World. In Popam, the number of colonies lost in 1607 and 1608 was much less than James Town experienced.
While there was a Popam colony, the first boat built by a British was completed in the New World, and a voyage returned to England across the Atlantic Ocean. Virginia of Sagada Hook This pinnace ship, named issue, is clearly possible to travel in the open ocean, and in 1609, as one of the third supplementary fleet to James Town, which consists of nine ships of Christopher New Port. I crossed the Atlantic Ocean again. This little Virginia The issue survived on the way for a storm for three days, which was thought to have been a hurricane. In this storm, the fleet flagship is big and new Sea venture The issue broke down in the Bermuda Islands.
The exact location of the Popam colony was unknown until rediscovered in 1994. Most of this historic place is currently part of the Popam Beach State Park in the main state.
Popam was one of the two competitors in a shareholder -based Virginia company that was imperial to the King of England in 1606, in recruiting capital from private investors to develop Virginia. 。 At that time, the name “Virginia” applied to the North American northeastern coast from Spanish terrida to Nouvelle France, the current Canada. The area was substantially claimed by the Spanish royal family, but did not occupy.
The Primus company was given the royal royal imperial and the right to the coast from 38 degrees north latitude to 45 degrees. The rival London company was recognized for the coast from 34 degrees north latitude to 41 degrees. The colonies were first settled in unusual areas. Between the 38 -degree line and 41 -degree line, which is a duplicated area, the company that knew that it had enough power to colonize it was to be assigned to the company.
Primus company’s first ship Richard The issue sailed in August 1606, but in November, it hindered and captured near Florida.
The next attempt was a little more successful. On May 31, 1607, about 120 colonies departed Primus on two boats. They had the intention of trading precious metals, fragrances and fur, and indicating that local forests could be used to make British ships. Coloner’s leader George Popam Was Laurie Gilbert as a deputy advice Gift of God I boarded the issue. Another ship’s captain Robert Davis has a diary, one of the main sources of Popam colonies at the time.
George Popam is a colonial financial backing, England’s chief judge. John Popam Lord’s nephew, Rory Gilbert was the nephew of Lord Walter Raleley. As another investor, Primus’s Secretary -General Ferdinand Gonzes is gained from his letters and remarks in the colony. The pioneers contained nine councils and six gentlemen, and the rest were military personnel, craftsmen, farmers and traders.
Gift of God The issue arrived on August 13, 1607 on the estuary of the Keneveck River (at the time called the Sagada Hook River). Another Mary and John The issue arrived three days later. Popam colonies were established at the end of the area named Savino. The colonists have immediately started the construction of Fort St. George, which is a large star type. Fort St. George had a groove and base wall, with nine cannons from half -carbaline guns to Falcon guns.
Hunt map [ edit ]
On October 8, 1607, the colonial John Hunt wrote a map, depicting 18 buildings, including the Academic House, Chapel, Warehouse, Works, and Works. Hunt was written in the colonial registration book as drafting. It is not clear whether all buildings were completed at that time. Hunt’s map was discovered in 1888 in a Spanish national document. One spy sold it to the Spanish ambassador, and the ambassador sent it to Spain. This is now a copy of the lost original, and is the only flat view that knows the initial arrangement of early UK colonials.
Conflict with Indian [ edit ]
Popam and Gilbert sent a survey to the upstream of the river and contacted the Abenaki tribe, which belongs to the Argonkin tribe in the northeast of North America. Popam wrote in a letter addressed to James I, saying that the Indian was full of resources that could be easily used by the area. However, the colony could not build a collaboration with the Abenaki tribe. The Avenaki troops did not trust the white people, as the expedition that visited earlier had kidnapped Indians to show them in their home countries.
The arrival of the colonists in late summer means that there is no time to grow food. Half of the colonies are in December 1607 Gift of God I returned to England by issue. The fire lost at least the warehouse and the food stored there. The excavation of posterity suggested that there was another fire.
The colonists were parted for two sect, one supported George Popam, and the other was Hanfrey Gilbert’s son and Laurie Gilbert, a nephew of Lord Walter Rory. George Popam died on February 5, 1608. Probably the only colony who died, and that year, who lost half of the colonists that year, is a major contrast. On February 5, 1608, Rory Gilbert became a “colonial chair” at the age of 25.
The colonists completed one big plan. That is, Virginia of Sagada Hook It was built a 30 -ton pinnace ship named the issue. It showed that Europeans were the first boat made in the United States, and that colonies could be used for shipbuilding. Eventually, I was able to trade fur with the Avenaki tribe, and I was able to collect salsa para (one of the herbs).
When one supply ship came in 1608, he brought a message that Lord John Popam had died. Gilbert is that Mary and John I sent my luggage to England in the issue. When the ship returned that summer, he brought a news that Gilbert’s older brother, John, died. Therefore, Gilbert was the person who succeeded the title and the territory of Devon’s Compton Castle. Gilbert has decided to return to England. The remaining 45 colonies Mary and John Issue Virginia of Sagada Hook I returned to my homeland by issue ( Virginia of Sagada Hook The issue later crossed the Atlantic Ocean, joined the third supplementary fleet the following year, leading Captain James Davis, and went to James Town. )
This colony lasted almost a year. Subsequent colonists in the area settled on the current berths, with the first colonial experience, upstream, winter storms and tides.
Subsequent development [ edit ]
French colonists Jean de Beyan Cool visited the abandoned colony in 1611. In 1624, the Massachusetts Bay Colonial Samuel Maverick visited the area and reported that the grass was all -you -can -grow.
During the Civil War, the North Army built a Fort Popam in the area where the Keneveck River in the area poured directly into the Atkins Bay (about 500 m east of the Popam colonial region). Later, some farmers migrated to the area and became farmland until 1905, and the U.S. Army built the area of Fort St. George to replenish Baldwin. The main state purchased the area in 1924, and was reused for Fort Baldwin during World War II. After the war, the assets were returned to the main state.
Today, most of the areas that make up the Popam colonials are part of the popular coasts and recreation areas, the Popam Beach Main State Park.
Excavation in modern times [ edit ]
The first excavation in the area in the 1960s was unsuccessful. In 1994, Jeffrey Brain of the Peabody Essex Museum discovered a trace of a colony on the Hunt’s map. Brain began a large -scale excavation in 1997, later discovered a warehouse, warehousing and alcoholic warehouses. He also proved that the map of the hunt was very accurate. Some of the fort, probably, including the chapel and the graveyard, are private land and cannot be excavated, and the southern part of the fort is under the public road. This excavation ended in 2005.
references [ edit ]
- Richard L. Pflederer – Before New England: The Popham Colony ( History Today January 2005)
- Tom Gidwitz – The Little Colony That Couldn’t ( Archaeology magazine March/April 2006)
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