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George Dominic Percy, Earl Percy (born 4 May 1984), is a British businessman and the heir apparent to the Dukedom of Northumberland. Early life. Percy was born as the second child and elder son of Ralph Percy, 12th Duke of Northumberland and his wife, the former Jane Richard.
George Percy è stato un esploratore inglese, governatore della Colonia della Virginia.
22 dic 2021 · George Percy was one of the original Jamestown settlers and the author of two important primary accounts of the colony. He served as president of the Council (1609–1610) during the Starving Time, and briefly as deputy governor (1611).
George Percy. The Honourable George Percy (4 September 1580 – 1632) was an English explorer, author, and early Colonial Governor of Virginia.
George Percy, one of the original Jamestown settlers and the author of several firsthand accounts of the colony, sits for an oil portrait in this nineteenth-century reproduction of an earlier work dated 1615.
George Percy was president of the Virginia’s council during the winter of 1609 and 1610, called the “starving time” when only sixty settlers survived. In June 1610, they decided to abandon the town, but the arrival of the new governor, Lord de La Ware (see AJ-076) and his supply ships brought the colonists back to the fort.
George Percy, sheltered by his lack of conspicuousness, learned early in I6o6 that a movement was afoot to plant a permanent English colony in America, slightly to the north of Ralegh's "Virginia" (the
