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EDWARD MARIA WINGFIELD (c. 156o-c. 1614)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 730 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD MARIA See also:WINGFIELD (c. 156o-c. 1614)  , See also:English colonist in See also:America, was See also:born at Stoneley, See also:Huntingdonshire, about 156o . He served as a soldier both in See also:Ireland and the See also:Low Countries, was one of the patentees of See also:Virginia in 16o6, and in 1607 accompanied the first colonists to See also:Jamestown . He was elected See also:president of the See also:Council (15th May 1607), but his arbitrary See also:manners, the fact that he was a See also:Roman See also:Catholic, and the suspicion that he was friendly toward See also:Spain led to his deposition in See also:September . He returned to See also:England in See also:April 16o8, and died after 1613 . His amplified See also:diary, entitled " A Discourse of Virginia," was published in Archaeologia Americana, vol. iv . (See also:Worcester, 186o), with introduction and notes by See also:Charles See also:Deane .

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