Gorges of Plymouth Fort
Author: Richard A. Preston
Publisher: Totonto : University of Toronto Press
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 518
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ferdinando Gorges was born in Ashton Phillips, Somerset, England in about 1565. He is called the "Father of English Colonization in North America". He was an early English colonial entrepreneur who founded of the Province of Maine in 1622, although he himself never set foot in the New World. He married four times and had four children by his first wife, Ann Bell. He died in 1647 in England.