This week we continue and complete our story of the English adventures along the coast of New England in the first decade of the 17th century, including the fate, and the historical debate over the fate, of the Popham Colony, the Virginia Company’s sister colony to Jamestown. Along the way we learn about the astonishing origin of the word “Iroquois,” the first dog names in North America that come down to us, and the medicinal value, or not, of sassafras!

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Selected references for this episode

Henry Otis Thayer, The Sagadahoc Colony: Comprising the Relation of a Voyage Into New England

Christopher J. Bilodeau, “The Paradox of Sagadahoc: The Popham Colony, 1607–1608,” Early American Studies, Winter 2014.

Alfred A. Cave, “Why Was the Sagadahoc Colony Abandoned? An Evaluation of the Evidence,” The New England Quarterly, December 1995.