Visual Timeline: Popham Colony

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1600 CE 1610 CE  
 
1607 CE - 1608 CE: Duration of the Popham Colony in New England.
 
1607 CE: Colonist John Hunt draws map of proposed settlement of Fort St. George at Popham Colony.
 
1608 CE: George Popham is succeeded by Raleigh Gilbert as the colony's leader.
 
1608 CE: Death of George Popham, the colony's leader.
 
1608 CE: Raleigh Gilbert receives word of his inheritance back in England; Popham Colony is abandoned.
 
1611 CE: Jesuit priest Pierre Biard visits the abandoned site and reports on its weaknesses.
 
 
 
 
 
 
1600 CE 1610 CE