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Jun 22, 2024 · Like his investment partner Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Mason was convinced that the rivers in the New World were the gateway to the riches of the Orient. Gorges, the Governor of Plymouth, England funded George Weymouth’s 1605 expedition to find the elusive passage to the East.
6 days ago · Like his investment partner Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Mason was convinced that the rivers in the New World were the gateway to the riches of the Orient. Gorges, the Governor of Plymouth, England funded George Weymouth’s 1605 expedition to find the elusive passage to the East.
Jun 19, 2024 · They took five captives to England and gave three to Sir Ferdinando Gorges. Gorges was an investor in the Weymouth voyage and became the chief promoter of the scheme when Arundell withdrew from the project. Gorges wrote of his delight in Weymouth's kidnapping, and named Tisquantum as one of the three given to him.
Jun 22, 2024 · Resolution of the trustees of Ferdinando Gorges, Lord Proprietor of the province of Maine, by authority derived from his Majesty, that they neither do, nor may by any means, pass into an Act "the motion and issue of this presence," as being destructive and averse to the liberties of the freeholders of this province, &c. Wells, 1662 ...
Jun 22, 2024 · That Holdopp came to England in 1660, where, after devising said plantation and all other his estate to Petitioner and her son and making Ferdinando Gorges one of his executors, he soon after died.
6 days ago · Supposes he knows that Sir Ferdinando's grandson obtained of his Majesty a special declaration in his favour, which Esquire Archdale sent to the writer. All he desires is to enjoy his grants. The land is the meanest he hears of, but such as it is he hopes "none shall have such liberty as to ruin the well-being of both nations."
Jun 10, 2024 · Sir Ferdinando Gorges to the Earl of Salisbury. 1607, April 7. I have forborne to make answer to your lordship's of the 18th March till this instant upon ...
