biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (?–1608)
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| biography:
| Colonist, born in England, UK. A sea captain, he and Sir Ferdinando Gorges proposed the idea of a Northern Virginia colony. Together with Raleigh Gilbert, they commanded the two ships that landed off the coast of Maine in 1607. They stayed the winter at the mouth of the Kennebec R, but Popham died in February, and the colony was abandoned that summer. |
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