1607-1608

Updated: May 22, 2025

But the colonists were soon discouraged, and more than half their number went back to England in the ships when they returned in December. The winter of 1607-1608 was terrible to the forty-five men who remained at Kennebec, where land and water were locked in icy fetters.

Lyon Gardiner Tyler - England in America, 1580-1652