Wells York Maine United States
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...the Piscataqua region, about fifty miles (eighty kilometers) north of Boston and purchases the rights of the native sagamore of Wehanownouit and his son and founded the town of Exeter, New Hampshire on April 3, 1638.
He is the leader in the foundation of the town, where he fills the office of pastor of the church and active citizen.
He purchases four hundred acres (one point six square kilometers) of land on the Ogunquit River and builds a one-story house and sawmill.
...the coast of Maine, where, by agreement with the agent of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, he is allowed to take up land and organize a church in Wells, Maine, in 1641.