See also:BARTHOLOMEW See also:GOSNOLD (d. 1607)
, See also:English navigator
.
Nothing is known of his See also:birth, parentage or See also:early See also:life
.
In 1602, in command of the " See also:Concord," chartered by See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Raleigh and others, he crossed the See also:Atlantic; coasted from what is now See also:Maine to Martha's Vineyard, landing at and naming Cape See also:Cod and See also:Elizabeth See also:Island (now Cuttyhunk) and giving the name Martha's Vineyard to the island now called No See also:Man's See also:Land; and returned to See also:England with a See also:cargo of furs, sassafras and other commodities obtained in See also:trade with the See also:Indians about See also:Buzzard's See also:Bay
.
In See also:London he actively promoted the colonization of the regions he had visited and, by arousing the See also:interest of Sir Ferdinando See also:Gorges and other influential persons, contributed toward securing the grants of the charters to the London and See also:Plymouth Companies in 16o6
.
In 1606-1607 he was associated with See also:Christopher See also:Newport in command of the three vessels by which the first See also:Jamestown colonists were carried to See also:Virginia
.
See also:GOSPEL 265
As a member of the See also:council he took an active See also:share in the affairs of the See also:colony, ably seconding the efforts of See also:John See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith to intro-duce See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, See also:industry and See also:system among the See also:motley See also:array of adventurers and idle " gentlemen " of which the little See also:band was composed
.
He died from swamp See also:fever on the 22nd of See also:August 1607
.
See The See also:Works of John Smith (See also:Arber's Edition, London, 1884) ; and J
.
M
.
Brereton, Brief and True Relation of the See also:North See also:Part of Virginia (reprinted by B
.
F
.
See also:Stevens, London, 1901), an See also:account of See also:Gosnold's voyage of 1602
.
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