The Territory of Sagadahock, also called the Sagadahoc Colony and New Castle, was an
English colonial territory which included the eastern part of what was later
colonial Maine and was more sparsely settled than the western region. The area included was east of the
Kennebec River
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.
On some accounts, the English first settled Sagadahoc in 1608–09.
A part of the grant of
King Charles II in 1664 to his brother the
Duke of York
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included the territory between the
St Croix
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and
Pemaquid and northward, variously called the "Sagadahoc Territory" and "New Castle".
The area was later absorbed into the
Province of Maine
The Province of Maine refers to any of the various English colonies established in the 17th century along the northeast coast of North America, within portions of the present-day U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, and the Canadian ...
. In 1691, a
new charter of Massachusetts was granted by
William III William III or William the Third may refer to:
Kings
* William III of Sicily (c. 1186–c. 1198)
* William III of England and Ireland or William III of Orange or William II of Scotland (1650–1702)
* William III of the Netherlands and Luxembourg ...
and
Mary II
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Mary was the eldest daughter of James, Duke of York, and his first wife ...
and included the Province of Maine, the "territory of Sagadahoc", and also
Nova Scotia
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Most of the population are native Eng ...
.
[''House of Commons papers'', vol. 61 (1843), p. 85]
Notes
Pre-statehood history of Maine
History of the Thirteen Colonies
Former English colonies
Colonial settlements in North America
1664 establishments in the Thirteen Colonies
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