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Sir Ferdinando Gorges (c. 1565-1568 – 24 May 1647) was a naval and military commander and governor of the important port of Plymouth in England. He was involved in Essex's Rebellion against the Queen, but escaped punishment by testifying against the main conspirators.
Founder: Council for New England. Sir Ferdinando Gorges (born c. 1566, probably at Wraxall, Somerset, Eng.—died 1647, Long Ashton, Gloucestershire) was a British proprietary founder of Maine, who promoted, though unsuccessfully, the colonization of New England along aristocratic lines.
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21 de may. de 2018 · The English colonizer and soldier Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1568-1647) was an important promoter of New England colonization. Ferdinando Gorges's career covered the years from the defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) to the surrender of Charles I (1645) during the English civil war.
Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1565–1647), called the "Father of English Colonization in North America" [1], was an early English colonial entrepreneur and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622. Gorges himself never set foot in the New World.
22 de nov. de 2016 · A new threat emerges. Just when the Pilgrims were trying to establish New Plymouth, an English war veteran named Ferdinando Gorges claimed that he and a group of investors possessed the only...
28 de abr. de 2022 · Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1565–1647), the "Father of English Colonization in North America", was an early English colonial entrepreneur and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622. Curiously, he never set foot on American soil.
More especially, an absolute narrative of the north parts of America, and of the discoveries and plantations of our English in Virginia, New-England, and Berbadoes. : Gorges, Ferdinando, 1629-1718 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. (1 of 450) America painted to the life.
