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.

--
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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