Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-02


sions, and will be still employed In
coming decades whenever dreams
and opinions seek to establish early
settlements in Maine.
Sincerely regret that into the
movement by research and scientific
investigation to discover the real
Pemaquid. SO much of myth and
vagary has been cast abroad by un-
informed and hasty reporting for
newspapers: but especially that into
an able and orderly presentation OF
the case for the public eye to incite
cooperation. there has unwittingly
entered historians error which now
at this jrncture of pulic inquiry
Joined with stories OF less vitality
will wrongly instruct this generation,
In our history. My reasons should be
apparent why felt the need that
this matter should be called In CUES
ton, and also why reject the his
torian's dictum which is fitted Ia
misguide and foster opinions having
no historical foundation. It ls worthy
OF note that in the present instance
the acceptance OF historians aver
ment has produced q double error. in
the date. and In the locality. Def :
nlteiy the statement is restricted to
Pemaquid and the Immediate vicini-
~ The actual by Davis along the
coast. In the actual 1t extended from
the kennebec to the eastern bounds
OF the st, George.
ANY who will care TO read this ar
ticle should be assured that / write
mere nothing as absolute, but only
that what careful study has yielded,
and therefore what believe and hold
waiting for any further hight. These
additional remarks may be permitted
as no later opportunity may be al
lowed to an aged man.
Excess OF mystery has been spread
over the pavements. One says they
nave always been leading feature of
civilization. Important Roman roads
were paved l6 feet wide. Sickening
mud In Paris led an early king to or
oer'paVlng. AT Pemaquid men of sense
would not tramp in mud at seasons
OK the year when suitable stone al
hand could be laid iE dooryards for
convenience and in most USED streets
tor daily necessity Of business. On
the west of that river, can be seen q
cellar finely walled as by a man OF
skili. A space about the house was
paved for family comfort, and a nav
ed path three feet wide extended
back hundred feet to a presumed
workshop.
Four forts in succession is an as
serted distinction of this mysterious
femaquld. But | must beg to insert
j mere my results of study and nv be-
iier la1d on sufficient evidence. tina,
! the nrst OF the four was not at OF
near the present fort grounds. II
| was down near the neck cf that pen
ihsula, near Fish Point and it's har-
| Dor, where was the first settlement
| the Old Town." and the business OF
! the time. After the war the renewal
| under Andres became "Newtown,
and there Fort Charles and success.
! ors were built.
| we are often pointed to the for,
site as the place of the first landino
OF Europeans in 1906. Such a land.
| ing may be tabled or imagined bu,
history does not know it nor sugpes,
II. Capt. George Weymouth did ir
.hat year come into those waters
/ landward of Monhegan and eastward
OF Pemaquid and thence into the ST
| george. But that Yarmouth over Sol
| !oot on any part OF Pemauuid Neck
! IS hot In history. written or implied
out the converse. He sent one of hi.
men ashore at New Harbor, it i,
thought to meet Indians, but he hell
ms boat off a distance. his neares,
known approach to the land of mar.
| wells. -'''i
Capts. Popham and Gilbert Of III,
frst colony did in 1907 meet a Iarg,
company Of natives and had a tail
with them and that conference car
WIN strong assurance. be assigned t.
the fort lands by the river. Tha
may be regarded the first know,
landing. Yet Capts. Hanham am
rrlng very probably had LANDED
there in 1906.
And further I need to add mos
nrmly that can have no complacen.
c!' no receptive ear for the repetitio,
OF that other manufactured myth
the disheartened. defunct ponbar
enterprise reborn at Pemaouid
when against it, evidence is solid
IS competent. contemporaneous mul
iple' cumulative-the complete am
l',ai dissolution Of the colony at Sag
adahoc. and the departure OF al
| coast. 'e"i
Desired. and matter of homo 10
uay at hand. when by investiga tio,
OF the land above and below the sur
lace line, and by rational Use of HE
Tory followed to it's original Sources
liere VIII be no mystery at Pema
4uio'-by Rev. Henry o. Thayer.