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PS - Remember, "our" John Smith mapped and NAMED New England... a great PR ploy.
The pilgrims used his maps but wouldn't let him come with them because of his reputation.
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Melinda C. P. Skinner
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From: Digital Heritage of Virginia <[log in to unmask]>
> In planning a late autumn vacation to Maine, I came across "Castine" Maine and
> its environs, and was amazed to see that (1) some authorities call it the oldest
> continuous English Settlement in New England, predating the good Pilgrims of
> Plymouth by half a decade, and (2) Ta Da!!!!!!!! Our own Capt. John Smith
> chartered the Castine pennsula in 1614. A small world indeed. (I wonder if he
> had a trumpeter with him.)
>
> Reading on, it looks like that area was later occupied by the Dutch and the
> French, which raises some questions in my mind about "the oldest continuous.....
> English...." Any scholars out there know anything about all that?
>
> Randy Cabell
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