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...

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from Plymouth, Bristol, and Exeter such as Sir John Popham and Sir Ferdinando Gorges. Competition between the two branches with overlapping territory was...

William Gorges (January 1605 – February 1658) was a soldier and the first colonial governor of the Province of Maine. Gorges was born in January 1605,...

The Gorges family was a gentry family established in the southwest of England. Believed to have come from Gorges in Normandy, the first documented member...

by ... Sir Ferdinando Gorges ... (London: E. Brudenell, for N. Brook, 1658) as well as other works of Gorges and his son Thomas Gorges. Volume 3 is...

Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason, English Royal Navy veterans, who were granted a large tract in present-day Maine that Mason and Gorges "intend...

US fortifications. Named for the colonial proprietor of Maine, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, it was constructed to support existing forts, including Fort Preble...

establishing the Province of Maine was granted on August 10, 1622 to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason by the Plymouth Council for New England, which itself...

Francis Champernowne, a prominent merchant adventurer and cousin of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the prime mover behind settlement north of the Massachusetts Bay...

presented the latter three to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, governor of Plymouth Fort, piquing his interest in exploration. Gorges was an investor in the Weymouth...

back to England, where they were questioned about settlements by Sir Ferdinando Gorges. Sakom Tahánedo was the only one of those captives known to have returned...

to lands then under control of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. The province was named for his mother, Cicely (Lygon) Gorges. It was one of the early provinces...

employ of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, a leading organizer of the English exploration and settlement of North America. It is possible that Gorges sent him on...

and was built for Ferdinando Gorges. Noted for its interior plasterwork, the house is a Grade I listed building. Ferdinando Gorges (c.1565-1647) was an...

establish Jamestown. The Plymouth Company under the guidance of Sir Ferdinando Gorges covered the more northern area, including New England, and established...

awarded to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Lord Proprietor of Maine, territory which included the Plantation of Wells. His young cousin, Thomas Gorges, acting as deputy...

from 1623 to 1624. He was the son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges. After having served in the Venetian wars, Gorges was given a commission as Governor-General...

by ... Sir Ferdinando Gorges ... (London: E. Brudenell, for N. Brook, 1658) as well as other works of Gorges and his son Thomas Gorges. Volume 3 is...

prominent settler, Captain Francis Champernowne, a cousin of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, lord proprietor of Maine. Together with the Pepperrell family, they...

and two more hardly escaped by flight to Monchiggon; they were Sir Ferdinando Gorges his men, as this savage told us, as he did likewise of the huggery...

point, he established the Inn, and, by 1667, he was commissioned by Ferdinando Gorges, an agent of King Charles II, to "reside on the ocean-front peninsula...

immigrated. Envisioning a great city arising from the wilderness, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, lord proprietor of Maine under the Plymouth patent, named the capital...

Acland's Regiment: 624 muskets and 360 pikes in 6 companies Col Sir Ferdinando Gorges' Horse: three 'cornets' (Troops) Barnstaple Trained Band: 52 muskets...

one of the referees to divide the patents of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason. William Gorges, designated Governor, had Godfrey as one of his...

Sheffield Baron Gorges of Dundalk Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset Robert Mansell Edward Zouch Dudley Digges Thomas Roe Ferdinando Gorges Francis Popham...

and other islands in the region as a proprietary colony from Sir Ferdinando Gorges and the Earl of Sterling. Mayhew led several families to settle the...

Prince Society. Sir Ferdinando Gorges and his Province of Maine Preston, Richard. Gorges of Plymouth Fort: a life of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Captain of Plymouth...

(forerunner of the Province of Lygonia) William Gorges (1636–38) Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1639–47) Thomas Gorges (1640–43) Richard Vines (1644–45) Henry Jocelyn...

memory of Sir Ferdinando Gorges the first Proprietor and Governor of that Province. A.D. 1635, aided by some connections of the Gorges family in England"...