Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 131, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1920 — Thought Cape Ann Greenland. [ARTICLE]

Thou ght Cape Ann Greenland.

Cape Aim. which furnished a bleak and barren I’tr en for adventurous explorers. v. --Ttled temporarily only /three ye; rs .-.iter the Matflower arI rived at I ’vmouth.' Some evidence indientrs ;bat Thorwald’s “Cape of the Cr - which he thought to be a proj«- < n of Greenland, was the bleak Cap.- Ann. Capt. John Smith landed <m v. hat is now Cape Anu, and called it Tragabigzanda in honor of a Turkish Pocahontas who did not risk her head, but who fed him while he was a prisoner. Captain Smith explored the coast within two decades before the Pilgrims came. Reports like that of Captain Smith “angling with a hook, and crossing the sweet air from isle to isle attracted many English fishing vessels. However* the early settlers seem to have sought their subsistence largely through agriculture. It was not until 1700 that the northeast corner of Massachusetts became identified particularly with fishing.