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Mr. Bolton shows us that there were planters and settlers, fishermen and traders all along the New England coast years before the landing of the Mayflower. Genealogists will want to pore over Bolton's treatment of the intriguing Popham Colony of 1608 and the valuable appendices to the work, which identify hundreds of lesser-known early New Englanders.

This volume is available on our Family Archive CD 7504.