Ancient Stone Sites of New England and the Debate Over Early European Exploration by David Goudsward

Author:David Goudsward
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014-04-22T16:00:00+00:00

Monhegan Island Inscription, Manana Island, Maine

William Jenks was the pastor of the First Congregational Church, Bath, Maine, from 1805 to 1818. In connection with his pastoral duties, he also was a professor of Oriental languages and English literature at Bowdoin College. In 1818, he returned to Boston, founding a mission for seamen and becoming an active member of Boston’s various reform movements. He continued preaching and writing on a variety of historical topics. By the time his multi-volume Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible78 was published, he was renowned in antiquarian circles as a Biblical and Oriental scholar. So, in 1851, when he spoke at a meeting of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences about his 1808 investigation on Norse inscriptions on Manana Island off the coast of Maine, there was no question that Dr. Jenks had found Norse inscriptions.79

Maine is noted for a number of spectacular native petroglyphs such as those in Machias Bay or Embden.80 But the earliest documented petroglyph site in Maine may not be Native American, and it may not even be petroglyphs. Jenks admitted to his esteemed colleagues that he had not originally been impressed with the inscriptions, believing them to be unimportant tally marks from some crude early inventory.81

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