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�This is a name lost in the shuffle of time since it was given to the locality before the white settlement As to Agguahega[?] it appears to be a late[word underlined] name for Damariscove Island, (1717) and needs consideration as such. In my opinion the islands on the Maine coast (Monhegan, Damariscove, Seguin and around Pemaquid) were settled bef. 1620,[three words underlined] not by colonists families but by companies of men engaged in fishing and trading. The evidence is too strong to be ignored and only the moloch[?] of Plymouth Rock prevents acceptance of this proposition. Hundreds[word underlined] of sail were located there every year 1606-1619 and they must have had habitations ashore in the summer months to live in and buildings for curing their fish. Every early voyager refers to this condition. It was not a settlement[word underlined] in the sense of community planting, but I think it clearly indicated that men lived the year round at Monhegan as early as 1615. Hence