When Bowdoin College was founded in Maine, he gave the new school 6,000 acres (24 km²) and $5,500.
Naushon Island was at one time the property of James Bowdoin III (1752–1811), son of Massachusetts' governor James Bowdoin II (1726–1790) and appointed by President Thomas Jefferson to serve as the U.S. plenipotentiary to Spain.
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