 According to a popular local legend (shown to be completely unsubstantiated by all the eye-witness source materials of the 17th century), the "Mayflower" landed at Renews in 1620, where it picked up water and supplies before sailing on to Plymouth Rock.A battery was established there in 1755 and was manned consistently from thence until 1815, during the Napoleonic Wars.Loyola Hearn, Canada's former Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, is from Renews.