Second in command was a younger man named Raleigh Gilbert, who assumed leadership of the colony after Popham’s death in the winter of 1607. They came to North America in 1607, arriving on August 18th (although this map of the fort was not drawn until October of the same year.) The group’s leader was President George Popham, whose uncle, Sir John Popham, was Chief Justice of England and one of the largest financial supporters of the expedition. As William Tabor details in his article entitled Maine’s Popham Colony, a charter was issued in 1606, from James the First. George’s Fort were originally from England.
Who were the settlers who tried to colonize this place? It is located north of the more successful Virginia colony of Jamestown and it would become the second colony in the area that would eventually make up present day New England. Today the fort is found in the town of Phippsburg, Maine which archeologist Dr. George was built in 1607 by the Popham Colony, near the mouth of the Sagadahoc River in Virginia, the name given to the unsettled east coast. (2008) “The John Hunt Map of the First English Colony in New England,” Northeast Historical Archaeology: Vol. While the map was initially created to illustrate the physical structures of the fort, archeologists today are finding the map invaluable as an aid in uncovering the history of the colony.īrain, Jeffrey P. As cartographer and draughtsmen for the Popham Colony, Hunt created this map as an indicator of the Colony’s intentions in the construction of the fort. George’s Fort was constructed in 1607 by colonist John Hunt.