The Popham Colony

The Popham Colony or Sagadahoc Colony, rather than a historical footnote, was the vanguard of a new colonization model for the English, the result of rights stripped from noble conspirators, and redistributed to new corporate entities. After years of sailors kidnapping natives off the coast of modern day Maine to train as interpreters, Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Sir John Popham return them hoping the fair treatment given to their captives, will foster good will with their native communities. The Popham Colony, undertaken by the Virginia Company of Plymouth, initially seems a more promising prospect, to the Jamestown Colony, undertaken by the Virginia Company of London. However, things change...

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