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Witch Island
Summary
Witch Island is an approximately 18 acre wildlife sanctuary off the coast of South Bristol, Maine, United States.
Witch Island received its name from Anna Chittenden. She was an actress, lecturer, clairvoyant and palmist. Her stage name was Grace Courtland. She claimed unusual powers to predict the future. So many of her predictions of Wall Street stocks came true that James R. Keene nicknamed her the "Witch of Wall Street." She was well-known in the United States and England in the late 19th century. When the Anna and her husband, Dan, purchased the island in 1886 from the Davis family, they began calling it Witch Island.
It had been known as Davis Island from prior owner Captain Samuel H. Davis, but "Witch Island" is now the name of record on maps, in books and journals, and documented in government records.
One of the earliest documented names for the island was Stewart's Island.
The Gamage family of South Bristol were the earliest identified proprietors. How it attained the name Stewart's remains unknown.
Gamage began as Gamache of Norwegian origins. Rolla the Dane, a pirate, travelled from the north in search of lands and spoils. He arrived in France in 912 with another man named Inczar. They terrorized the people such that Charles the Simple relinquished part of Neustria to Rolla the Dane. Rolla granted landed estates to his accomplices, which included Inczar. These men dubbed the area, Normandy. Inczar received lands known as the Gamache Marshes. Over time, family members began bearing de Gamache as part of their names.
Several generations later, two de Gamache brothers, came with William the Conqueror to England. By the 1300s, Sir William de Gamage of Royiade attained Coity Castle upon the death of Sir Laurence of Berkerolles of New Orchard. Sir Thomas Gamage, several generations later in, was the first to drop the "de" from his surname. From Sir Thomas, the Gamage family became known as "of Coity".
Sir Robert Gamage and his wife, Joan, had two sons and 4 daughters. His eldest son, Sir John, married Wenlien, an heiress.
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