History
The bay was mapped again in 1605 by the French explorer Samuel de Champlain, who named it the Baie de Chouacouët. His chart of the bay and the mouth of the river has been described as one of his best charts.
In 1616, Sir Ferdinando Gorges sent Richard Vines to settle in New England. He spent the winter of 1616–1617 on Saco Bay. A pestilence was raging among the Indians, and as Vines was a physician he attended to sick Indians in the area. In 1630 the Plymouth Company gave Richard Vines and John Oldham each a tract of land on the Saco River, four miles (6 km) wide on the sea and extending eight miles (13 km) inland.
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