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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 56. Chapters: Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, John Smith, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, Edward Maria Wingfield, Nicholas Spencer, Thomas Lee, Edmund Andros, William Berkeley, Alexander Spotswood, Francis Howard, 5th Baron Howard of Effingham, George Yeardley, Robert Carter I, Samuel Argall, Thomas Dale, George Percy, George Douglas-Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, Richard Bennett, Francis Nicholson, Norborne Berkeley, 4th Baron Botetourt, Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle, List of colonial governors of Virginia, John Ratcliffe, Thomas Gates, John Campbell, 4th Earl of Loudoun, Francis West, Samuel Mathews, Edward Digges, Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper, Francis Wyatt, John Pott, Robert Dinwiddie, Francis Fauquier, Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet, Robert Hunter, Matthew Scrivener, John West, John Harvey, Edward Nott, Hugh Drysdale, Samuel Matthews, William Nelson, Edmund Jenings. Excerpt: Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as Edward-Maria Wingfield, (1550, Stonely Priory, near Kimbolton - 1631) was a soldier, Member of Parliament, (1593) and English colonist in America. He was the grandson of Richard Wingfield and son of Thomas Maria Wingfield. Captain John Smith wrote that Wingfield was one of the early and prime movers and organisers in 1602-1603 in "showing great charge and industry" in getting the Virginia Venture moving: he was one of the four incorporators for the London Virginia Company in the Virginia Charter of 1606 and one of its biggest financial backers. He recruited (with his cousin, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) about 40 of the 105 would-be colonists, and was the only shareholder to sail. In the first election in the New World, he was elected by his peers as the President of the governing council for one year beginning May 13, 1607, of what became the first successful, English-speaki...
