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BARTHOLOMEW GOSNOLD (d. 1607)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 265 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 to intro-duce See also: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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