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4 days ago · Like his investment partner Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Mason was convinced that the rivers in the New World were the gateway to the riches of the Orient. Gorges, the Governor of Plymouth, England funded George Weymouth’s 1605 expedition to find the elusive passage to the East.
3 days ago · Sir Arthur Gorges, poet, and his cousin, Sir Ferdinando Gorges, both of whom sailed with Ralegh on the Islands Voyage in 1597, dated letters from Durham House in 1595 and 1596 respectively.
5 days ago · Sir Ferdinando Gorges to the Earl of Essex. 1595, July 16. Thanks him very profusely for lord Burgh's “most kinde respete unto me and of my repetasion” (reputation), which he perceives proceeded by Essex's means.
5 days ago · Above a month past, Sir Ferdinando Gorges and he directed a packet to Cecil, and the examinations of three young youths, which were brought into this port by a ship of Sir Thomas Sherley's, and remain here, one in the fort, and the other two in the writer's prison.
3 days ago · John Mason, of Cape Ann, one dated 1628 to Rosewell and others of the Massachusetts, in 1629 grants to Ferdinando Gorges and Capt. John Mason of Hampshire and Maine confirmed in 1634.
2 days ago · The colonist Ferdinando Gorges blamed the cold weather on cold ocean winds. Humphrey Gilbert tried to explain Newfoundland's icy and foggy weather by saying that the Earth drew cold vapors from the ocean and drew them west.
5 days ago · A few years later, in 1623, Smith's former close friend and supporter Sir Ferdinando Gorges helped establish settlements on the Piscataqua River at Portsmouth and Dover, one of Smith’s most promising sites.
