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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.
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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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.
Nov 22, 2016 · Ferdinando Gorges was an English war veteran who claimed to have a patent for New England and challenged the legal basis of Puritan settlements. He conspired with Thomas Morton, a dissident who opposed the Puritans, and tried to undermine their authority and influence.
May 21, 2018 · Learn about the English colonizer and soldier who founded Maine and promoted the Council for New England. Find out how he clashed with Massachusetts Bay Colony over land and religion.
Sir Ferdinando Gorges has been called “the father of English colonization in North America,” but is perhaps better described as a Don Quixote, a quester who chased a romantic dream of English royalism in a garden of Eden where democracy eventually flowered instead.
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The signatories: Gorges. Ferdinando Gorges grew up a “West Country” boy, inspired by the exploits of Queen Elizabeth’s already-legendary West Country “sea dogs” - the Gilbert brothers (John, Humphrey and Adrian), Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Drake, John Hawkins and Sir Richard Grenville. These daring and gallant heroes of privateering ...
