The Voyage of Archangell: James Rosier’s Account of the Weymouth Voyage of 1605

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Four hundred years ago, Captain George Waymouth sailed from England to the coast of Maine looking for a suitable web site for an English colony.

He and his crew spent twenty-nine days in Would possibly and June of 1605 sounding and exploring a very small area of the coast, which included an anchorage on the Georges Islands and the discovery of a “great river.” Which river? This question has been an ongoing controversy, even to the present day. Our best information comes from James Rosier, who was once aboard the ship Archangell as a “gentleman” employed to document the voyage. His narrative, A True Relation, gives us one of the crucial earliest written accounts of the natural resources of northern New England and the Native individuals who resided here. But because Waymouth hoped to go back with financial backing to establish a new colony, Rosier’s glowing account is cagey about certain geographic specifics–obviously, they did not want somebody else to act on their information.

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