The Popham Colony, founded five years after the settlement attempt at Cuttyhunk in what is now Massachusetts, is the second English colony in the region that will eventually become known as New England.

The ship Gift of God of the Plymouth Company arrives on August 13, 1607, at the mouth of the modern-day Kennebec River (at this time called the Sagadahoc River) in present-day Maine.

The English colonists establish a Fort St. George, also known as the Popham Colony.

The Mary and John arrives three days later.

The Popham Colony is settled on the headland of an area named Sabino.

The colonists quickly begin construction of large star-shaped Fort St. George, which includes ditches and ramparts and contains nine cannons that range in size from demi-culverin to falcon.