It might be the earliest discovered on the US coast; coins date it from the time of French king Louis XIII (1601-1643).
Since the ship was constructed of Live Oak (quercus virginiana, probably) its origin was in the New World rather than the Old.
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I just finished "Champlain", which talked at length about the shipbuilding in New France. There would have been a fair number of ships from there.
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