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George Popham was the captain of Gift of God which became separated from the ship Mary and John on the journey to New England. The two ships were able to rejoin along the coastline before looking for a place to build a colony. There, he erected the first English settlement [5] in New England, Popham Colony. His first establishments included a ...
Councillor and Captain: 1607–08–22 Captain of the Godspeed: Edward Harrington: Gentleman 1607–08–24 John Herd: Bricklayer not listed [as alive] after June 1607 [13] Nicholas Houlgrave: Gentleman Robert Hunt: Preacher before 1609 Thomas Jacob: Sergeant (soldier) [10] Jacon, T. 1607–09–04 [10] William Johnson: Labourer George Kendall ...
George Popham was president of the colony and captain of Gift of God. Raleigh Gilbert—son of Sir Humphrey—was admiral (second in command) of the colony and captain of Mary and John. Neither of these men was a mariner and the ship's officers of Mary and John were Robert Davies and James Davis. The ship's log and diary from the voyage and ...
In 1607 a Plymouth Company expedition led by George Popham and partially financed by Sir Ferdinando Gorges founded Popham Colony in Maine, which lasted one year before being abandoned. During that year the colonists built a seaworthy boat, the Virginia pinnace .
Edward Ashley as Barzillai Ray, Morgan Chetcuti as Sheppard, Chris Hemsworth as Owen Chase and Benjamin Walker as George Pollard in Warner Bros. Pictures' 'In the Heart of the Sea' (2015).
Rear-Admiral Sir Home Riggs Popham, KCB, KCH (12 October 1762 – 20 September 1820), was a Royal Navy officer and politician who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He is known for his scientific accomplishments, particularly the development of a signal code that was adopted by the Royal Navy in 1803.
Its roots trace back to the first colonists in the early 1600s. In 1607, Captain George Popham and over a hundred colonists established a settlement at the mouth of the Kennebec near Phippsburg. The colony built a Fort Popham for their defense but sailed back to England in 1608.
Fort Popham is a Civil War-era coastal defense fortification at the mouth of the Kennebec River in Phippsburg, Maine. It is located in sight of the short-lived Popham Colony and, like the colony, named for George Popham , the colony's leader.