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	Edward Maria Wingfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Maria Wingfield (born around 1560 in Stoneley (Huntingdonshire); died after 1613) was a soldier and English colonist in America.
		He was the grandson of Richard Wingfield and son of Thomas Maria Wingfield.
		He served as a soldier both in Ireland and the Low Countries, was one of the patentees of Virginia in 1606, and in 1607 accompanied the first colonists to Jamestown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Maria_Wingfield (191 words)

	Sir Richard Wingfield - LoveToKnow Watches
		With Sir Edward Poynings and others he was sent in 1512 to arrange a holy league between the pope, the English king and other sovereigns, and in 1514 he went to the Netherlands to try and arrange a marriage between the archduke Charles, afterwards the emperor Charles V., and Henry VIII.'s daughter Mary.
		In the intervals between these and similar errands Wingfield was occupied in discharging his duties at Calais, but in 1519 he resigned his post there and returned to England.
		Mervyn Wingfield (1836-1904), the 7th viscount, was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Powerscourt in 1885.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Richard_Wingfield (466 words)

	Virtual Jamestown: Edward Maria Wingfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wingfield came from wealthy stock in England and served in the military in Holland and Ireland.
		However, Wingfield’s presidency was short-lived and unhappy due to many factors, some of his own making and some due to the nature of placing a colony in the middle of such a wild and unfamiliar land.
		Edward-Maria Wingfield was an enigmatic figure who deserves credit for getting the colony up and running; however, he deserves a fair amount of the blame for the mismanagement that led to food shortages and the deaths of many colonists.
	www.virtualjamestown.org /Wingfield.html (840 words)

	Edward Maria Wingfield (1560?-1613?)
		Students also debate whether Wingfield is too timorous, whether he pads his case, and whether he manipulates their sympathies.
		Because the document is a self-defense, it is useful to determine whom Wingfield meant to address, and how his particular argument might appeal to his implicit audience.
		Wingfield appears as a footnote or brief entry in most textbooks or historical accounts of the Jamestown colony.
	college.hmco.com /english/heath/syllabuild/iguide/wingfiel.html (762 words)

	WINGFIELD
		As there is no other evidence to connect Wingfield with Lancaster in a personal way, it may be the case that this favour marks an attempt by the duke to attach the shire knight to his interests of the moment, for he needed support in the Commons for his Castilian venture.
		Wingfield died on 25 May 1398 and was buried in the chancel of Dennington church, where traces of his monument yet survive.
		Early dependence upon the Wingfields might have taken him to Calais, and there is a remote chance that he was the Thomas Warley who served Viscount Lisle, the deputy, for a number of years before being discharged, with a reward of 13s.4d., when Lisle's household was dissolved in 1540.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /WINGFIELD.htm (3230 words)

	Charles Francis Adams, Chapters of Erie, Captain John Smith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wingfield’s work, which is called “ A Discourse of Virginia,” is therefore a new authority on the early history of the Colony, and has peculiar value as a means of testing the correctness of the True Relation, and as furnishing some idea of what was thought and said by the party jealous of Smith’s influence.
		Deane, in editing this work of Wingfield’s, in 1860, furnished a note upon this passage, in which for the first time, so far as we are aware, a doubt was thrown upon the story of Pocahontas’s intervention.
		Wingfield, Smith himself, Simons, Strachey, Hamor, Rolfe, and Purchas, all the authorities, without exception, known to exist, are equally dumb when questioned as to a circumstance which, since 1624, has become the most famous part of colonial history.
	yamaguchy.netfirms.com /adams/erie_04.html (8954 words)

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		Wingfield's statement that the supply left with the colony was very scant, a store that would only last thirteen weeks and a half, and prudence in the distribution of it, in the uncertainty of Newport's return, was a necessity.
		Wingfield saw no way of escape from the malice of his accusers, whose purpose he suspected was to fine him fivefold for all the supplies whose disposition he could not account for in writing: but he was finally allowed to appeal to the King for mercy, and recommitted to the pinnace.
		Wingfield admitted that it was impossible to render a full account: he had no bill of items from the Cape Merchant when he received the stores, he had used the stores for trade and gifts with the Indians; Captain Newport had done the same in his expedition, without giving any memorandum.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/3/1/3/3130/3130.txt (17368 words)

	First Prison in Colonial Virginia
		The first two English prisoners in Virginia were political leaders - Edward Maria Wingfield, the President of the Council, and George Kendall, a member of the council.
		Wingfield was taken away from from the fort at Jamestown and incarcerated on the Discovery.
		Kendall may have been kept in one of the storehouses that were erected inside the fort during the earliest stages of the settlement.
	www.virginiaplaces.org /government/firstprison.html (742 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureEdward Maria Wingfield - Author Page
		The first president of Jamestown was Edward Maria Wingfield, a former military commander and adventurer who was elected according to the provisions of the Virginia Company charter of 1606.
		Wingfield’s aristocratic lineage estranged him from working-class colonists; his unwillingness to endorse favored status for “gentlemen” lost him the support of fellow councillors; and his Roman Catholic background was suspect in the primarily Protestant band.
		The atmosphere of distrust among the councillors was heightened by the pressures of sickness, famine, and cold, and within months of his election, Wingfield was under fire from the Council.
	college.hmco.com /english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/colonial/wingfield_ed.html (476 words)

	New England Historic Genealogical Society
		Sir John Wingfield and Elizabeth FitzLewis were great-grandparents of Edward Maria Wingfield, adventurer and first president of the Virginia colony, and ancestors also of Francis Dade of Virginia.
		Sir Henry Wingfield, brother of Sir John, was a great-great-great-grandfather of James Claypoole of Philadelphia (one of whose great-grandsons, John Claypoole, was the third husband of flagmaker Betsy Ross, born Elizabeth Griscom) and ancestor too of Thomas Wingfield of Virginia.
		Elizabeth Wingfield, sister of Sir John and Sir Henry, married Sir William Brandon and was both the paternal grandmother of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (second husband of Princess Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII) and a great-great-great-grandmother of Dr. Richard Palgrave of Charlestown, Massachusetts, an ancestor of Presidents F. Roosevelt and G. Bush.
	www.newenglandancestors.org /education/articles/NEXUS/nexus_9_2_4.asp (2456 words)

	Edward Maria Wingfield
		Indeed in Sir Richard Wingfield’s Regiment there was a young, difficult man called John Smith,14 who had begged a commission from him, and whom I was to meet later.
		Robert Beheathland, friend and kin of the Wingfields of Crowfield and of the Dades and Cornwallises of Tannington and Shotley (both in Suffolk).
		Edward Harington from Exton (also near Tickencote) – the maternal grandfather of my neighbour and cousin, Sir James Wingfield of Kimbolton Castle, had been Sir James Harington of Exton.
	www.wingfield.org /EMW/EMW.htm (10628 words)

	Jamestown
		Edward Hill settled at Basse's Choyce, in the Warrascoyack area downstream from Bennett's Plantation in an area in which a patent had been granted to Nathaniel Basse and Arthur Swayne (Swan).
		Edward Bennett had undertaken the plantation and we find him in Virginia with his settlers in October of 1622.
		Edward Hill, along with William and Thomas fled during the massacre to Elizabeth Cittie, where Edward held a land grant of 100 acres.
	www.genealogical-gleanings.com /Jamestown.htm (11551 words)

	The Gunpowder Plot Society
		The 1607 voyage coordinator and dominant personality was the tough 52-year-old soldier Captain Edward-Maria Wingfield, veteran of the 1588 Spanish Armada attack on England, who also had years of service in Ireland against the Roman Catholics there.
		The enormous jolt to England of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot neither stopped issuance of the 1606 Virginia Charter nor prevented the actual 1607 settlement at Jamestown Island, but its effects were both immediate and centuries-long in American attitudes and actions with respect to Papists.
		During the first year at Jamestown, Wingfield, whose Bible had been stolen, was deposed from the Presidency of the Colony largely on grounds that since he didn't have a Bible he must be sympathetic to Roman Catholicism.
	www.gunpowder-plot.org /virginia_1607.asp (966 words)

	First Families of VA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		One of the oldest families in England, the Wingfields are also one of the most deeply rooted in Virginia.
		The families presence in the "Old Dominion" (and America for that matter) began in 1607 with the arrival of Captain Edward-Maria Wingfield and 105 other colonists at Jamestown.
		Captain Wingfield served as Jamestown's first President of the Council.
	www.landtrustva.org /FirstFamVA_Wingfield.htm (175 words)

	View All Archives: UVA NewsMakers
		The Virginia Company did have hopes of peaceful relations with the natives of Virginia, but the reality was that the last group of colonists who had been sent over twenty years earlier, the Roanoke colonists had disappeared without a trace.
		Establish relations with the natives based on trade and then in the long-term they hoped, the natives will see the superiority, as they saw, of the English way of life and would be led to become like the English themselves.
		The natives with perfectly understandable reason are suspicious of these newcomers and their intentions, see them as intruders, and there are attacks – violent attacks early on.
	www.virginia.edu /uvanewsmakers/newsmakers/price.html (2906 words)

	The Avalon Project : The First Charter of Virginia; April 10, 1606
		Provided always, and our Will and Pleasure herein is, that the Plantation and Habitation of such of the said Colonies, as shall last plant themselves, as aforesaid, shall not be made within one;hundred like English Miles of the other of them, that first began to make their Plantation, as aforesaid.
		Richard Hackluit, Edward-Maria Wingfield, Thomas Hanham, Ralegh Gilbert, William Parker, and George Popham, or any of them, heretofore made, in these Presents, is not made; Or any Statute, Act, Ordinance, or Provision, Proclamation, or Restraint, to the contrary hereof had, made, ordained, or any other Thing, Cause, or Matter whatsoever, in any wise notwithstanding.
		IN Wetness whereof, we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent; Witness Ourself at Westminster, the tenth Day of April, in the fourth Year of our Reign of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the nine and thirtieth.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/states/va01.htm (297 words)

	Teacher Resources - Collection - The Capital and the Bay, ca. 1600-1925
		The earliest work, which dates to 1607, is "A Discourse of Virginia," by Edward Maria Wingfield, first president of that colony.
		Wingfield deals with relations with the Indians, illness in the colony, his ouster as president due to disputes with the colonists, and the story of Pocahontas.
		Interestingly, Charles Deane, who edited the volume when it was published in 1859, argues that the story of Pocahontas was not true (see note 8 on page 32).
	lcweb2.loc.gov /learn/collections/capital/history2.html (761 words)

	Where's My Damn Castle? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Wingfield has the dubious honor of being the defendant in both of the first two jury trials ever held in America.
		Captain John Smith and Jehu Robinson both sued Wingfield for slander on Sept. 17, 1607.
		Edwin Maria Wingfield in September, so he must have been on board.
	www.azoz.com /family/castle/1607/Jamestown01.html (359 words)

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		They were: himself, Captain Gosnold, Edward Maria-Wingfield, Captain Kendall, John Martin, John Ratcliffe, and John Smith.
		Edward Maria-Wingfield, the only one of the investing partners in England who also went along on the adventure, had arrested John Smith on the way to Virginia and had him held as a prisoner on the ship during the voyage.
		He said he knew Smith was planning to usurp the authority of the council before it was even named, and to make himself King in Virginia.
	www.lulu.com /items/volume_1/73000/73451/1/preview/CH_1_1st.doc (1121 words)

	Where's My Damn Castle? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		People are starving already or getting sick from wormy grain and Wingfield has his own private stash of food.
		Wingfield "(who all this time had neither felt want nor sickness)" had been trying to talk everyone into running away, suggesting they take the Discovery and go somewhere (anywhere) else.
		Wingfield was deposed as President of the Council.
	www.azoz.com /family/castle/1607/1607.html (3747 words)

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		The names of the councilors were found to be Christopher Newport, Bartholomew Gosnold, John Ratcliffe, Edward-Maria Wingfield, John Martin, John Smith, and George Kendall, with Gabriel Archer for recorder.
		John Smith says that his enemies, chief amongst whom was Wingfield, would have sent him with Newport to England, there to stand trial for attempted mutiny, whereupon he demanded a trial in Virginia, and got it and was fully cleared.
		Upon this count, early in September, Wingfield was deposed from the presidency.
	www.cumorah.com /etexts/pofos10.txt (22414 words)

	Is it Gosnold? APVA Preservation Virginia Archaeologists Seek Matching DNA--Historic Jamestowne
		He also was one of the six members of the original governing council and helped design James Fort.
		Edward Maria Wingfield, the first president of the colony, lamented Gosnold's death, describing him as: "the worthy and religious gentleman, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, upon whose life stood a great part of the good success and fortune of our government and colony."
		The most compelling piece of evidence that this was a high-ranking person was the discovery of a decorative captain's leading staff that was ceremoniously placed along one edge of the coffin lid.
	www.historicjamestowne.org /news/gosnold_dna_01.php (1292 words)

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		One of the earliest accusers was President Wingfield, Jamestown's president until September 10.
		That day settler Gabriel Archer presented Wingfield with a list of grievances and informed him that he was ousted and would stand trial.
		Captain John Martin backed Archer up, but Wingfield believed Smith was the first and only person to collect the charges against him.
	www.history.org /foundation/journal/smith.cfm?toPrint=yes (4374 words)

	JR102C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Although Smith, a commoner, was punished and almost executed for his act, Calthorp may have avoided punishment altogether due to his possible family connection to Newport's colleague Edward Maria Wingfield.
		When Wingfield was elected president by the Virginia Company, tension between Calthorp and Wingfield may have escalated, and factional divisions probably increased when the settlers fell on hard times in August 1607.
		It may be that the Wingfield camp could remain in power only if opposition was removed.
	www.apva.org /ngex/jr102c.html (372 words)

	Article
		The jug was one of the symbols of a Jacobean gentleman who moved in courtly or upper-class circles and affiliated himself with the strength and prestige of the Habsburgs no matter what their religious leanings.
		One such gentleman was Edward-Maria Wingfield, first president of the council in Virginia.
		In his own words Wingfield sums up the conflicting views of the upper class in response to charges that he had colluded with Spain to the detriment of the colony:
	www.chipstone.org /publications/CIA/2001/Straube/2001StraubeText.html (5697 words)

	A Discourse of Virginia: a machine-readable transcription.
		Nor was I disappointed; for I found it written by a person of no less importance than Edward Maria Wingfield,—one of those to whom the patent was granted, and who, upon the arrival of the colonists in Virginia, was elected their first President.
		Wingfield's name is indorsed on the back of the journal.” In a note accompanying the copy, he says, “I have carefully compared the copy with the original, and corrected several mistakes made by the copyist; so that you can rely upon the document I send you,
		In its connection with this subject, the passage in the text of Wingfield, at this place, becomes especially significant, as giving the main features of Smith's imprisonment as they were understood at Jamestown at the time, and, of course, as told by Smith himself.
	memory.loc.gov /gc/lhbcb/06563/06563.sgm (10693 words)

	Settlement Of Jamestown - 1607
		That night was the box opened, and the orders read, in which Bartholomew Gosnol, John Smith, Edward Wingfield, Christopher Newport, John Ratliff, John Martin, and George Kendall, were named to be the council, and to choose a president among them for a year, who with the council should govern.
		Until the 13 of May they sought a place to plant in; then the council was sworn, Master Wingfield was chosen president, and an oration made, why Captain Smith was not admitted of the council as the rest.
		Now falleth every man to work, the council contrive the fort, the rest cut down trees to make place to pitch their tents; some provide clapboard to relade the ships, some make gardens, some nets, etc. The savages often visited us kindly.
	www.nationalcenter.org /SettlementofJamestown.html (1458 words)

	Virginia's History
		In September Wingfield was deposed; and Ratcliffe, who subsequently proved himself unequal to the responsibility, was elected president of the council.
		As early as 1650-5 1, however, Abraham Wood and Edward Bland, seeking a new fur-trading field distant from the encroachments of Maryland, had made into the southwest a journey of exploration, which was followed sporadically by other pilgrimages.
		Because the British Government was eager to prevent backdoor encroachments of the French, General Edward Braddock and British troops were sent to Virginian 1755 to lead an offensive.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/VAGuide/history.html (11081 words)

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