The beginnings of colonial Maine, 1602-1658 . urposes. * Just as clearly as theRelation establishes the general location of the Popham colony onthe west side of the river, so another discovery, since that of theIvambeth Palace manuscript, enables us to fix the precise locationof the fortified settlement, which Popham and his associates madeat the mouth of the Sagadahoc. 1 For very full particulars concerning the location, and especially for men-tion of erroneous opinions held by early writers, see Thayer, SagadahocColony, 167-187. 2 Among the treasures secured for Browns Genesis of the United
The beginnings of colonial Maine, 1602-1658 . urposes. * Just as clearly as theRelation establishes the general location of the Popham colony onthe west side of the river, so another discovery, since that of theIvambeth Palace manuscript, enables us to fix the precise locationof the fortified settlement, which Popham and his associates madeat the mouth of the Sagadahoc. 1 For very full particulars concerning the location, and especially for men-tion of erroneous opinions held by early writers, see Thayer, SagadahocColony, 167-187. 2 Among the treasures secured for Browns Genesis of the United States, byDr. Curry in the library at Simancas, Spain, was a copy of The draught ofSt. Georges fort erected by Captain George Popham, Esquire, on the entryof the famous River of Sagadahock in Virginia, taken out by John Hunt theVIII of October in the year of our Lord 1607. When this plan was pub-lished in the Genesis (Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston, 1890, I, 190), it wasdiscovered that the generally accepted view as to the location of Pophams. ^.I^M ^ - , ^sJi^ i^.^1 i 1 ^^1J^ ^> ?? THS POPHAM COIvONY. 77 The choice of this precise location of the settlement was madeAugust 19. All went to the shore for this purpose, and afterthe selection there was a religious service. To the colonists thismeant much more than that held a few days before on one of theislands of St. Georges harbor. Then, the service was one ofthanksgiving for their safe arrival in the new world. Now, theywere about to lay the foundations of civil government; and astheir own hopes, and the hopes of those most deeply interested inthe welfare of the colony, extended into an unknown future, theirpreacher, in the presence of all the colonists, implored the blessingof God on the great undertaking upon which they now formallyentered. After the sermon, adds the Relation, our patentwas read with the orders and laws therein prescribed. Thepatent—if patent there was—must have been a copy of thatgranted by James I on
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