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2 Maine What We Know Two dominant theories exist regarding the origin of the name Maine, but no consensus has ever been reached as to its precise beginnings. The answer to this mystery may lie in new research done by a Maine writer named Carol B. Smith-Fisher. In a newspaper article which appeared in the Bangor Daily News in February of 2002, Smith-Fisher first rather convincingly debunks the two existing theories, and then, also quite convincingly, presents her own. We will present her theory as well later on in the chapter. While there is little documentation for why Maine came to be named as it is, the details of its exploration and settlement have been prolifically described in books, newspapers, and journals. At the same time the Spaniards in the Southwest were searching for the seven cities of Cibola, the French and Italians eagerly and vainly sought their own fabled land-of-milk-andhoney: the land which Giovanni da Verazzano had called Oranbega, later appearing on maps as Norumbega. Paving the way for Samuel de Champlain and Jacques Cartier, Verrazano established the continental nature of the region which on early maps was labeled Terra Nova or New Founde Land, and was often depicted as in island or islands. In 1615 Captain John Smith explored and mapped the coastline of what the English were by then calling North Virginia. Smith presented to the King of England his new map, which contained the prophetic name New England. The first official application of the name Maine to the land between the Merrimack and Sagahadock (now the Kennebec) Rivers appears in a Royal land grant made to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason by King James I of England on Cod fishing has long been an economic mainstay in Maine August 10, The two were businessmen who hoped to profit 193

3 Kathy Guyton from the excellent fishing in New England waters by colonizing the coastline. In fact, as early as 1606, under a patent from the Plymouth Company, Gorges had commissioned George Popham to create a settlement in New England. Popham s expedition set out within a year of the Jamestown mission and landed near the mouth of the Kennebec River, establishing the foundation of their colony with a few single huts. Popham, however, died during the extremely harsh winter, and the colony was abandoned the following summer. While they initially had little success in colonizing, Gorges and Mason took pains to maintain control of their patents and land grants in New England. In 1629 they divided the land specified in the 1622 grant, Mason taking the portion south of the Piscataqua and calling it New Hampshire and Gorges taking the northern portion, keeping the name Maine. In 1639 Gorges had his Maine grant reconfirmed to him by King Charles I in a document which contains this tantalizing line: And Wee Doe name ordeyne and appoynt that the porcon of the Mayne Lande and Premises aforesaide shall forever hereafter bee This 1539 Dutch map shows Norumbegum (sic) lying in what is now the state of Maine 194

4 Maine called The Province or Countie of Mayne and not by any other name or names whatsoever... According to Smith-Fisher an explanation has never been found, either in memoirs or letters by Gorges or his descendents, as to why the name Maine was so adamantly chosen. And so the speculation began. Theory Number One By the time of Gorges grant by King James I, the land we call Maine was being fished extensively by English, French, Spanish and Portuguese fishermen who were not interested in documenting their travels. On the contrary, they tried desperately (as fishermen still do today) to keep their prime spots secret. Nor were these men interested in colonizing. They wished only to load up their ships with cod, and return home to sell their catch. According to the first theory regarding the origin of the state s name, these fishermen referred to the mainland as Mayne or Maine. The name was so common among those who frequented the waters that it stuck and was used by Gorges to define the land he chose as his own. This theory is prevalent among historians and even seems a likely hypothesis unless one considers Ms. Smith-Fisher s argument. She points out that Maine with its many different spellings was used up and down the eastern shores of North America (and indeed, on other continents discovered before and since) to differ- 195

5 Kathy Guyton Popham s abandoned fort is now a State Park in Maine entiate the coast from nearby islands, but only here is it proposed that the name rose to the rank of a proper noun. Why, she begs, would Sir Ferdinando Gorges, a devout royalist with an English pedigree dating back to the days of William the Conqueror, choose a name so common and so meaningless? Why, indeed? Which brings us to... Theory Number Two This second theory is certainly in keeping with the regal position of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. It was proposed in 1795 by Maine historian James Sullivan and has been widely accepted ever since. It maintains that the name comes from the French province of Mayne and was bestowed as a compliment to Queen Henrietta Maria, French wife of King Charles I of England. Henrietta Maria was a fifteen-year-old princess daughter of France s King Henry IV, and sister to future King Louis XIII when she married Charles shortly after he ascended the throne. For their first three years of marriage, Henrietta Maria was ignored by Charles, who preferred the company of his favorite courtier the Duke of Buckingham. After Buckingham s assassination, King Charles began to redirect some of his attention toward his wife, and they eventually became openly affectionate. The queen was widely mistrusted in England, primarily because she was Catholic, and the king s attention toward her was one of many acts which caused suspicion of him by his protestant subjects and parliament. (Charles I would go on to provoke Civil War in England, be tried and convicted of high treason, and finally be beheaded.) A royalist like Gorges, however, who was consistently loyal to King Charles and more distrustful of the increasingly powerful puritans in his own country than of the Catholics in France, might well have wished to pay his Queen a compliment. James Sullivan asserted that 196

6 Maine The territory was then called the Province of Mayne, by way of a compliment to the queen of Charles I who was a daughter of France, and owned as her private estate, a province there, called the Province of Meyne, now called the Province of Maine. 1 Theory number two, however, is chronologically difficult to swallow. According to a biography of Henrietta Maria written in 1845, the Queen had no connection with the French province of Meyne. Moreover, Smith-Fisher points out that the name Maine was bestowed by Gorges in 1622, three years before Henrietta Maria became Queen of England in In fact, in 1622 Charles (who was then Prince of Wales) was engaged to the Infanta Maria of Spain, a marriage that he and his father, King James I, very much hoped for. Not until 1624 did Charles pursue an alliance with France by proposing marriage to the Princess Henrietta Maria. Theory Number Three Now we come to Ms. Carol Smith-Fisher s new hypothesis. For her sources she contacted the Somerset and Dorset Historical Society in England. They informed her of a small village called Broadmayne near the Gorges ancestral home of Shipton Gorges just southeast of Dorchester, England. She further discovered that this village was, in the Domesday (English census) book of 1086, referred to as Maine and later divided into Brademaen (Broadmayne) and Parva Maen (Little Maine). The implication derived from Smith-Fisher s theory is that just as Gorges ancestors settled in (perhaps even founded) the town of Maine in England upon their arrival Queen Henrietta Maria from France in the eleventh century, so did he establish the colony of Maine in North America for the further propagation of the Gorges family. 197

7 Kathy Guyton Naming his new land after the place of his family s estate would be in keeping not only with the times but with Gorges apparent inclinations for naming of land possessions. He was granted many other patents for land in the new world, one of which he named Lygonia for his mother, Cecily (Lygon) Gorges, and another which he named New Somersetshire, for the county in which his family estate was situated. His colleague Captain John Mason also honored his home county in England, calling his portion of the granted land New Hampshire. Years later, in 1634, Sir Ferdinando s nephew Thomas Gorges would name his own Maine plantation Wells after his family home in England. Smith-Fisher admits that more proof is needed to verify her theory, but as she eloquently puts it...does it not ring true that our 17th century English knight would want to bless the future American homeland of the Gorges family with the ancient name of their first English village Maine? 198

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