The Voyage of Archangell: James Rosier's Account of the Weymouth Voyage of 1605 [Hardcover]

He and his crew spent twenty-nine days in May and June of 1605 soundingand exploring a very small area of the coast, which included ananchorage at the Georges Islands and the discovery of a great river. Which river? This question has been an ongoing controversy, even to thepresent day. Our best information comes from James Rosier, who wasaboard the ship Archangell as a gentleman employed to document thevoyage. His narrative, A True Relation, gives us one of the earliestwritten accounts of the natural resources of northern New England andthe Native people who resided here. But because Waymouth hoped to returnwith financial backing to establish a new colony, Rosier's glowingaccount is cagey about certain geographic specifics--obviously, theydidn't want someone else to act on their information....Rosier's attention to detail... ability to draw out informants and learn from them is remarkable.Four hundred years ago, Captain George Waymouth sailed from England tothe coast of Maine in search of a suitable site for an English colony.