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Unknown – Information Label, Museum, Damariscove, ME
The Museum on the two-mile long island Damariscove has a small sign reading: “1622 / During the early days of the Ply- / mouth Colony there were thirteen year / round fishermen living on / Damariscove. After a particularly / harsh winter, the fishermen of the / island supplied the colonists with / much needed provisions.”  There is no mention of the destruction by a violent storm of the Little James in the harbor there in 1624.

 

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(12Apr2009) Some time ago, the SMDPA Board was shown the original membership ledger. It was in bad condition although it had previously been restored. It was judged that no further treatment would be possible. The book was fragile, and further routine handling of it was not suggested. It was determined that it had to be copied, preserved and the data put in a readily accessible form.

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