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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.
Ferdinando Gorges (Clerkenwell, 1565 – Ashton Phillips, 24 maggio 1647) è stato un nobile britannico. Nel 1620 gli furono affidati i territori americani tra il 40º e il 48º parallelo di latitudine Nord; nel 1622 fu aggiunta un'altra importante porzione di terreno.
Sir Ferdinando Gorges was a British proprietary founder of Maine, who promoted, though unsuccessfully, the colonization of New England along aristocratic lines. After a colourful military career in his early manhood, during which he was knighted (1591), Gorges’ life after 1605 was dominated by.
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Colonizzatore inglese (n. Ashton, Somersetshire, 1566 circa - m. 1647), fu tra i concessionarî, nel 1620, del territorio compreso fra il 40º e il 48º parallelo di latitudine N, nell'America Settentrionale; due anni dopo con John Mason ricevette dal sovrano Giacomo II il diritto di colonizzare la regione compresa fra i fiumi Merrimac e Kennebec.
21 mag 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.
22 nov 2016 · 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 legitimate patent to...
In 1629, Englishman Ferdinando Gorges and his partner John Mason divided the Province of Maine, with Gorges taking the land east of the Piscataqua River, calling it New Somersetshire, and Mason creating the Province of New Hampshire to the south. Richard Vines, an English colonist worked as Gorges's agent to advance settlement in Maine.
