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	Ferdinando Gorges - Biocrawler
		Ferdinando Gorges (1565-1647) was an early English colonial entrepreneur in North America and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622.
		Gorges was born in Ashton Phillips, Somerset, England.
		In 1622, Gorges received a land patent, along with John Mason, from the Plymouth Council for New England for the Province of Maine, the original boundaries of which were between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ferdinando_Gorges (0 words)

	Gorges, Sir Ferdinando. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Gorges was a leading figure in the Plymouth Company, chartered in 1606, and one of the two chief backers of the Sagadahoc colony, which was planted in 1607 at the mouth of the Kennebec River, Maine, and failed in 1608.
		The territory of New England was to be divided among the eight lords of the council, who were to hold it under new patents, but because of the growing intensity of the struggle between Charles I and Parliament in England the new arrangement was never consummated, and the Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts was left free.
		In 1622, Gorges had received, with John Mason (1586–1635) a grant of the territory lying between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.
	www.bartleby.com /65/go/Gorges-S.html (0 words)

	The Avalon Project : A Grant of the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, esq., 10th of August, ...
		Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason, their heyres and assignee for ever, to be holden of his said Majesty, his heirs and successors, as of his Highness Manor of East-Greenwich, in the county of Kent, in free and common socage, and not in capite or by Knight's service.
		Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. Mason, their heyres and assignee, by these presents, that they, ye said President and Councill, at all times hereafter, upon reasonable request, at ye only proper costs and charges in the law of ye said Sr.
		Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason, or to their certaine attorney or attorneys in that behalf, according to the true intent and meaning of these presents, ratifying and confirming and allowing all and whatsoever their said attorney shall doe in or about the premises by these presents.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/states/me01.htm (0 words)

	Program 9: Rolling Back The Frontier \| MPBN's"HOME: The Story of Maine"
		Gorges and Popham promptly obtained a charter that established both a London and a Plymouth company; the former was afforded the right to colonize the southern portion of the large, vaguely-bounded region known as "Virginia" (today, basically the entire Eastern seaboard north of Georgia), and the latter gave colonizing rights to the north.
		Gorges was far from deterred by this episode, however, and when the now-legendary Captain John Smith came to him in 1614 looking for backing in a new settlement scheme, the knight was more than willing to assist.
		Gorges and his associates received the patent in 1621, along with all the land they could possibly want, as well as a fishing monopoly-the latter prize raised a considerable outcry among people already engaged in New England's burgeoning fishing industry.
	www.mpbc.org /homestom/p9ferdinando.html (0 words)

	Program 9: Rolling Back The Frontier \| MPBN's"HOME: The Story of Maine"
		Gorges and Popham promptly obtained a charter that established both a London and a Plymouth company; the former was afforded the right to colonize the southern portion of the large, vaguely-bounded region known as "Virginia" (today, basically the entire Eastern seaboard north of Georgia), and the latter gave colonizing rights to the north.
		Gorges was far from deterred by this episode, however, and when the now-legendary Captain John Smith came to him in 1614 looking for backing in a new settlement scheme, the knight was more than willing to assist.
		Gorges and his associates received the patent in 1621, along with all the land they could possibly want, as well as a fishing monopoly-the latter prize raised a considerable outcry among people already engaged in New England's burgeoning fishing industry.
	www.mpbn.net /homestom/p9ferdinando.html (924 words)

	Sir Ferdinando Gorges
		Gorges was styled the "father of colonization in America." He took grants with John Mason of the district called Laconia, and attempted settlements.
		In 1635 the council resigned its charter to the king ; but Gorges obtained a new charter in 1639, which constituted him lord-proprietary of the province of Maine, with extraordinary governmental powers, which were to be transmissible with the property to his heirs and assigus.
		In that year the four New England colonies formed a confederacy, excluding the settlements of Gorges, for they "ran a different course both in their ministry and civil administration." On the death of Sir Ferdinando, the estate was left to his son, JOHN, who totally neglected the province.
	www.famousamericans.net /sirferdinandogorges (0 words)

	Gorges Sir Ferdinando - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		In 1620 King James named John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges proprietors of lands between the Merrimac and Kennebec rivers, but they did little to...
		The Pennacook, members of the Algonquian culture, were the largest group of Native American inhabitants of New Hampshire.
		Gorges, Sir Ferdinando (gôr`jĭz), c.1566–1647, English colonizer, proprietor of Maine Maine,...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Gorges_Sir_Ferdinando.html (0 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Gorges, Sir Ferdinando
		Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, c.1566-1647, English colonizer, proprietor of Maine.
		In 1622, Gorges had received, with John Mason (1586-1635) a grant of the territory lying between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.
		His grandson, Ferdinando Gorges, 1630-1718, in 1677 finally sold to Massachusetts all rights to Maine for £1,250.
	www.reference.com /browse/columbia/Gorges-S (480 words)

	Ferdinando Gorges at AllExperts
		Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1565-1647) was an early English colonial entrepreneur in North America and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622.
		Gorges was born in Ashton Phillips, Somerset, England.
		In 1622, Gorges received a land patent, along with John Mason, from the Plymouth Council for New England for the Province of Maine, the original boundaries of which were between the Merrimack and Kennebec rivers.
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fe/ferdinando_gorges.htm (258 words)

	Nauset +
		Gorges, Robert (1595-1624?), William Gorges (1606-1659), and Thomas Gorges (1618-1670), son, nephew, and cousin, respectively, of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, an English soldier, colonizer of New England, and proprietor of Maine, each served at different times as his deputy governor in the New World.
		Thomas Gorges, lawyer and English politician, was born at "Batcombe Farm," Somersetshire, England, the son of Henry Gorges, a lawyer, and Barbara Baynard.
		William Gorges, soldier, was born in Wraxall, England, the son of Sir Edward Gorges, the older brother of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and Dorothy Speke.
	www.capecodhistory.us /genealogy/wellfleet/i986.htm (1806 words)

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		Gorges took charge of the erection of the defences there and when in 1596 these were completed he was made commander of the fortifications.
		Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the Commander of Plymouth, together with Sir John Popham, the Chief Justice of England, took a leading part in the company, with a special interest in the North Virginia branch.
		Gorges was so earnest in his settle- ment scheme that he employed Captain John Smith who had so much experience at Jamestown, but repeated shipping disasters and the misfortunes of war prevented him from reaching his post in Maine.
	ftp.rootsweb.com /pub/usgenweb/me/york/gorges/sj7p194.txt (1570 words)

	Ferdinando Gorges Summary
		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.
		Gorges regained his command on the accession to the throne of James I in 1603, and it was after returning to Plymouth that he developed his interest in colonization.
		Gorges was forced to forsake his interest in the Council for New England when war broke out with France in 1627, and he was therefore unable to supervise the council's 1628 grant to the New England Company.
	www.bookrags.com /Ferdinando_Gorges (1055 words)

	WPL: The History of Maine (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Sir Ferdinando Gorges' charter of "The Province of Maine." Penobscot tract (Brunswick and vicinity) ceded to Massachusetts.
		Ferdinando Gorges was given the region between the Piscataqua and the Kennebec, which was given the name of New Somersetshire.
		The royal charter of the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges by Charles II, designed to confirm the allotment made to Gorges in the division of the Patent for New England, was granted in 1639.
	www.waterborolibrary.org /histme.htm (7488 words)

	Nantucket Features (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ferdinando Gorges was born in Somerset, England in 1565 and appears to have done everything he could to get away from there as fast as he could.
		Ferdinando was captured and held briefly as a prisoner in Spain before being released and repatriated to England.
		Gorges informed Ralegh of “…my Lord of Essex’s making his house into a Guard, and putting his friends into arms,” but before a truce could be arranged the meeting ended abruptly when shots were fired from the Essex camp.
	www.yesterdaysisland.com /05_articles/satire/forgot.html (1506 words)

	History of Manchester, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
		Associated with Gorges, as Secretary of the "Council of Plymouth," was Captain John Mason.
		Thus Gorges and Mason, from their position, became leading members of the Company, and their private interest becoming identified with those of the patentees, they, in the end, exhausted ample fortunes in the prosecution of various enterprises for colonizing New England.
		On the 10th day of August, 1622, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, and Capt. John Mason obtained from the Council a grant of land "situated between the Rivers of Merrimack and Sagadehock, extending back to the great lakes and river of Canada," by the name of Laconia.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/nh/county/hillsborough/manchester/book/chap2.html (1678 words)

	Native Americans - Squanto
		Gorges kept Squanto, taught him some English, and eventually hired him to be a guide and interpreter for his sea captains who were exploring the New England coasts.
		In 1614, he was brought back to America, assisting some of Gorges men in the mapping of the New England coast.
		After working out the details, Gorges organized a trip to send both Dermer and Tisquantum to explore the natural resources and to re-initiate trade with the Indians along the New England coast who had been angry with the English after Hunt had kidnapped members of their tribes.
	www.nativeamericans.com /Squanto.htm (0 words)

	Sir Ferdinando Gorges - LoveToKnow 1911
		He was an advocate, especially late in life, of the feudal type of colony.
		See J. Baxter (ed.), Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine (3 vols., Boston, 1890;1890; in the Prince Society Publications), the first volume of which is a memoir of Gorges, and the other volumes contain a reprint of the Briefe Narration, Gorges's letters, and other documentary material.
		This page was last modified 20:43, 15 Sep 2006.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_Ferdinando_Gorges (0 words)

	MayflowerHistory.com
		Source: A Brief Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England, by Sir Ferdinando Gorges (London, 1658) states: "But falling short of his [Weymouth's] course, happened into a river on the coast of America called Pemmaquid, from whence he brought five of the Natives, three of whose names were Manida, Skettwarroes, and Tisquantum.
		And, in fact, Sir Ferdinando Gorges writing in 1622 also stated Tisquantum was taken by Captain Hunt.
		Gorges decided to send the two on an exploring mission to New England, where Dermer was to release Squanto to his homeland at the conclusion.
	www.mayflowerhistory.com /Introduction/lessonplandebunk.php (0 words)

	MEGenWeb Project ~ a proud part of the USGenWeb Project
		The grant of the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason, by the Great Council of New England, was made in 1622.
		The royal charter of the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges by Charles II, designed to confirm the allotment made to Gorges in the division of the Patent for New England, was granted in 1639.
		As the power of the royalist party in England weakened, George Cleeve in 1643, in opposition to the Gorges interest, enlisted the aid of Colonel Alexander Rigby in resuscitating the Lygonia Patent of 1630, and received a commission as Deputy President of the Province of Lygonia.
	www.rootsweb.com /~megenweb (0 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir Ferdinando Gorges (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Ferdinando Gorges[gOr´jiz] Pronunciation Key, c.1566–1647, English colonizer, proprietor of Maine.
		They divided that area in 1629, Gorges taking the land east of the Piscataqua River, which became the province of Maine.
		See J. Baxter, ed., Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine (3 vol., 1890, repr.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Gorges-S.html (0 words)

	Maine State Library: Origin of Maine’s Name
		The name first appears in writing in 1622 as a province, in a charter of the Council of New England granting land to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason.
		Gorges volleyed with yet another name for his territory: New Somerset.
		It was popularly believed that the name was given in honor of the queen of Charles I, Henrietta Maria, who purportedly was the "owner/landlord" of the province of Maine in France.
	www.maine.gov /msl/services/reference/meorigin.htm (0 words)

	Fort Gorges in Portland Harbor \| Southern Maine Community College
		By 1865, work was completed according to the original plan, and it was named in honor of Sir Ferninando Gorges, colonial proprietor of Maine.
		In 1940s, rolls of steel cable for submarine mines, submarine nets or moorings were stored in the fort in the mine storehouse and casements In 1946, the fort was declared surplus by the General Services Administration.
		Visitors enter the fort at their own risk and are urged to use caution as there are hazardous areas within the fort.
	www.smccme.edu /docs.php?section=5&navid=2&levelfour=166&docid=79 (0 words)

	Arthur GORGES (Sir) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Poet and translator, was associated with Sir Walter Raleigh as one of the volunteers against the Spanish invasion.
		however, like young Arthur Gorges and Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, managed to come free of their early associations and make respectable careers in conformity with the Elizabethan religious laws.
		Gorges was one of the 9 Knights made on 29 Oct 1597.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/ArthurGorges.htm (177 words)

	Part III, Chapter 28.
		In 1629 Mason and Gorges, being friends, agreed to divide the province of Maine between them, and Mason called his part New Hampshire, after the county of Hampshire in England, of which he was fond.
		Now, as soon as they heard of this Gorges and Mason asked the King to give them a grant of part of the conquered land, for it was known to be a fine country for fur trade, and was also believed to be rich in gold and silver mines.
		Both Mason and Gorges spent a great deal of money trying to encourage colonists to settle on their land, and the people of Massachusetts were not at all pleased to have such powerful Churchmen for their neighbours.
	digital.library.upenn.edu /women/marshall/country/country-III-28.html (1269 words)

	Fort Gorges at AllExperts
		Fort Gorges is a United States military fort built on Hog Island Ledge in Casco Bay, Maine.
		Following the War of 1812, the United States Army Corps of Engineers proposed that a fort be built on Hog Island Ledge, in Casco Bay at the entrance to the harbor at Portland, Maine.
		Named for the colonial proprietor of Maine, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, it was constructed to support existing forts, including Fort Preble in South Portland and Fort Scammel built on nearby House Island in 1808.
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fo/fort_gorges.htm (364 words)

	Maine, Granted to Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason
		In 1622, the Council for New England, an agency of the English government, gave Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason a large tract of land in present-day Maine and New Hampshire.
		The land was divided between the two men in 1629, and Gorges received the Maine section.
		In 1660, the heirs of Gorges disputed Massachusetts' ownership of Maine, and claimed Maine for themselves.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/maine.html (0 words)

	A Brief Relation of the Discovery and Plantation of New England, 1620.
		Gorges and the Grant of the Province of Maine 1922, A Tercentenary Memorial written by Henry S. Burrage, Printed 1923, was the source of many of the facts and dates.
		Baxter, the author of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and His Province of Maine, published 1890, believed the "Brief Relation" was written by Gorges himself.
		Gorges, then commander of the fort at Plymouth, keeps three, and sends the other two to Chief Justice John Popham.
	www.wellswooster.com /tommies/abrief.htm (682 words)

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