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7052Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river
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Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river. August 29, 1907. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)
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Tercentenary of the Landing of the Popham Colony at the mouth of the Kennebec river. August 29, 1907. (Scanned copy in part from archive.org)


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SCB 974.1 POP.pdf
…After severe escaped the extreme rigors of a northern was reduced to a handful of disheartened men by sick- hardships, though winter, itself at The …Croix, where the colony built a fort and some houses, and passed a single winter with much sickness, and suffering, and destitution. …Thirty-six of the little band perished miserably during the unexampled severity of the winter, and it is no wonder that the few survivors were unwilling …on of winter. the coast.