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The first European settlement in the area was made on St. Croix Island in 1604 by a French party that included Samuel de Champlain and Mathieu da Costa. The French named the area Acadia. French and English settlers would contest central Maine until the 1750s (when the French were defeated in the French and Indian War). The French developed and ...
The coastal areas of eastern Maine first became the Province of Maine in a 1622 land patent. The part of western Maine north of the Kennebec River was more sparsely settled and was known in the 17th century as the Territory of Sagadahock.
The first colony was St. Croix Island, near what is now the town of Calais. (St. Croix Island was settled initially in June 1604, then moved in 1605 by Samuel de Champlain to the Bay of Fundy). [1] Popham was abandoned after only 14 months, apparently more due to the death of patrons and the first colony president than lack of success in the ...
Pejepscot is a historical settlement first occupied by a subset of the Androscoggin Native Americans (Formerly known as the Anasagunticooks) known as the Wabanaki.The region encompasses the current towns of Brunswick, Topsham and Harpswell, Maine in Sagadahoc and Cumberland counties and was first settled by English settlers in 1628.
Maine: United States: Settled as Winter Harbor. 1631: South Berwick: Maine: United States: Settled by sailors from the Pied Cow who landed at the confluence of the Salmon Falls and Great Works Rivers: 1631: Lewes: Delaware: United States: Purchased in 1629 and settled as the short-lived Dutch Zwaanendael Colony in 1631.
This first patent encompassed the coast between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers, and an irregular parcel of land between the headwaters of the two rivers. In 1629, Gorges and Mason agreed to split the patent at the Piscataqua River , with Mason retaining the land south of the river as the Province of New Hampshire .
The District of Maine was the governmental designation for what is now the U.S. state of Maine from October 25, 1780 to March 15, 1820, when it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state. The district was a part of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and before American independence had been part of the British province of Massachusetts Bay .
A Voyage into New England, written by Capt. Christopher Levett to spur interest in the Maine colony. The first European to attempt settlement was Christopher Levett, an English naval captain who was granted 6,000 acres (24 km 2) from the King of England in 1623 to found a permanent settlement in Casco Bay.