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PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT.
Boston Daily Advertiser, April 11, 1866. THE LAST POPHAM ADDRESS.
Boston Daily Advertiser, April 21, 1866. "THE LAST POPHAM ADDRESS."
Portland Advertiser, April 26, 1866. "THE LAST POPHAM ADDRESS."
Boston Daily Advertiser, May 31, 1866. POPHAM AGAIN AND FINALLY.
Boston Daily Advertiser, July 28, 1866. THE POPHAM COLONY, "FINALLY."
Boston Daily Advertiser, July 28, 1866. A RUNNING REVIEW OF THE "POPHAM AGAIN AND FINALLY."
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE POPHAM COLONY.
THE POPHAM COLONY
A DISCUSSION OF ITS HISTORICAL CLAIMS
WITH A
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE SUBJECT
BOSTON
J. K. WIGGIN AND LUNT 13 SCHOOL STREET
1866
Edition, Three Hundred Copies.
BOSTON: PRESS OF ALFRED MUDGE & SON.
PUBLISHERS' ADVERTISEMENT.
In the following discussion, the arguments for and against thehistorical claims of the English Colony that landed at the mouthof the Kennebec River, August 19, (O. S.) 1607, are presented inan able and comprehensive manner. The articles, when theyappeared in the columns of a daily newspaper, attracted muchattention; and, as they contain matter of permanent historicalinterest, we have deemed them worthy of preservation in a collectedform.
The writers can have no further motive for withholding theirnames. We therefore state that "P." is Mr. William FrederickPoole, Librarian of the Boston Athenæum; that "Sabino" isRev. Edward Ballard, D. D., of Brunswick, Me.; and that"Orient" and "Sagadahoc" are the signatures of Mr. FredericKidder, of Boston.
Each year, since the first Popham Celebration in 1862, memorialservices have been held on the Anniversary of the Landingin 1607. Public addresses have been delivered on these occasions,and these have usually been printed. Mr. John A. Poor,of Portland, Me., delivered the Oration in 1862; Mr. GeorgeFolsom, of New York, in 1863; Mr. Edward E. Bourne, ofKennebunk, Maine, in 1864; and Prof. James W. Patterson,of Dartmouth College, in 1865.
This discussion arose from a notice by Mr. Poole, in the BostonDaily Advertiser of April 11, 1866, of Prof. Patterson'sAddress which appeared about that time in print. In this noticethe writer sharply assailed the claims for the Popham Colony,[4]as set forth by the orator, and also by Mr. Kidder in a Letterwhich the Publishing Committee of the Celebration had printedas an Appendix to the Address. Dr. Ballard replied in theBoston Daily Advertiser of April 21; and Mr. Kidder in thePortland Advertiser of Apr