History of Fisherman Island, settled in the seventeenth century as Hippocras. A

History of Fisherman Island, settled in the seventeenth century as Hippocras. Although the island and its dozen fishermen disappear from the historical record for about a hundred years starting around 1690, by 1870 it was one of the more valuable islands in the Boothbay Region. Details. Excerpted from Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast