Christopher Newport

Christopher Newport

male, deceased (1617)
British East India Company privateer British overseas territories bermuda Virginia colonial territory … Virginia Company
Christopher Newport (c. 1561-1617) was an English sailor. He is best known as the captain of the "Susan Constant", the largest of three ships which... More

Thomas Gates

male
Third Supply Virginia Colony commonwealth of virginia flagship English De La Warr … Virginia Company of London Virginia Company
Sir Thomas Gates (fl. 1585-1621), followed George Percy as governor of Jamestown, the English colony of Virginia (now the Commonwealth of Virginia,... More
George Somers

George Somers

male, deceased (1610)
Royal Navy officer Virginia colonial Warspite bermuda spanish member of parliament … Virginia Company
Admiral Sir George Somers (1554-1610) was a British naval hero. Born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, the son of John Somers, his first fame came as part of... More
George Sandys

George Sandys

male, deceased (1644)
Alumni of St Mary Hall, Oxford Aeneid charles old testament geography Archbishop of York … Virginia Company London Virginia Company
George Sandys (March 2, 1578 - March 1644), English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of Edwin Sandys, archbishop of York.... More
Edward Maria Wingfield

Edward Maria Wingfield

male, deceased (1631)
Captain Bartholomew Gosnold member of parliament “showing great charge and industry” new world from Huntingdonshire Virginia colonial … Virginia Company London Virginia Company
Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as "Edward-Maria Wingfield", (born 1550 in Stonely, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire); died... More
Edward Coke

Edward Coke

male, deceased (1634)
Old Norvicensian Attorney General for England and Wales From Norfolk British attorney general common law … Virginia Company
Sir Edward Coke (pronounced "cook") (1 February 1552 - 3 September 1634), was an early English colonial entrepreneur and jurist whose writings on... More

Alexander Brown

male, deceased (1906)
from Virginia historian american civil war American author Confederate Army soldier … Virginia Company
Alexander Brown (1843 - 1906) was an American historical writer, the author of several books on the early history of Virginia. He was born in... More
Samuel Jordan

Samuel Jordan

male, deceased (1623)
From wiltshire Huguenot French bermuda American sea venture … Virginia Company
Samuel Jordan (1578 - 1623), was an early Jamestown settler in the Virginia Colony and one of the first American colonial legislators, born in... More

Nathaniel Butler

male, 430 years old
Bermuda rig Bermudian parliament St. George's, Bermuda Somers Isles Company House of Assembly of Bermuda State House … Virginia Company
Nathaniel Butler (1578-16??) was an English privateer who later served as the colonial governor of Bermuda during the early 17th-century. He had... More
Robert Rich 2nd Earl of Warwick

Robert Rich 2nd Earl of Warwick

male, deceased (1658)
Warwick River Providence Island Company Earl in the Peerage of England privateer puritan new england … Virginia Company
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (June 5 1587-19 April 1658), was an English colonial administrator, admiral and puritan. Rich was the eldest son... More