Identifier: whattoseeinameri00john Title: What to see in America Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Johnson, Clifton, 1865-1940 Subjects: United States -- Description and travel Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan and Co., limited Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: and their leader, GeorgePopham, died. In the spring a ship came with supplies,but the settlers declared there was no use of Englishmenstrying to live in such a cold country, and they all eitherreturned to England, or went in a little vessel they had builtto Jamestown, Virginia. Capt. John Smith, who came across the ocean with twoships in 1614, and sailed along the coast from the Penob-scot River to Cape Cod, gave New England its name. Hedid some exploring inland, hoping to discover gold andcopper mines. No mines were found, but he was ableto sail for England presently with a valuable cargo of fishand furs. Maines first permanent settlement was made in 1624 byemigrants from Plymouth Colony at what is now York,but which they gave the local Indian name of Agamen-ticus. This was in the tract of country of which Sir Ferdi-nando Gorges was made proprietary lord a few years later.His territory was bounded on the east by the Kennebecand on the west by the Piscataqua, and extended as far Maine

Text Appearing After Image: Indian Island at Oldtown north as Lake Umbagog. It was named Maine in honorof the EngUsh queen, who came from France, where herestate was in the province of IVIayne. Gorges selected theplantation ofAgamenticus forhis capital, andmade it a city,namingit for him-self, Gorgiana. Itcomprised twenty-one square miles,had a mayor,aldermen, andcouncilmen; andthere were police-men, each ofwhom carried a white rod. Yet Gorgiana never had asmany as three hundred inhabitants. Maine developed peacefully for about fifty years, at theend of which time it had five or six thousand inhabitants distributed] in thirteenthriving settlements.Then came the Indianwars, and for nearly acentury the settlers werein constant terror of sav-age invaders. The trou-ble began on the 4th of1676, when aparty of Indians, whoseleader was Sinion, the Yankee-killer, invaded the homeof Anthony Brackett at Back Cove in what is now Portland.They seized and bound the entire household, which con-sisted of Mr. and Mrs. Brackett,

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