Gosnold, Bartholomew

Gosnold, Bartholomew

▪ English explorer
born c. 1572, Grundisburgh, Suffolk, Eng.
died Aug. 22, 1607, Jamestown, Va.

      English explorer and colonizer.

      The eldest son of an English country squire, Bartholomew Gosnold attended Cambridge University before marrying and settling at Bury St. Edmunds in the late 1590s. In 1602 the Earl of Southampton defrayed most of the expenses for fitting out the ship “Concord,” which Gosnold commanded on a voyage of exploration to the New World.

      Gosnold reached the North American coast in lower Maine, then sailed southward to a peninsula that he named Cape Cod. During that voyage to New England he also explored the coastal waters along Nantucket Sound, Martha's Vineyard, and Narragansett Bay. He returned to England with a cargo of lumber, sassafras, and furs.

 Gosnold worked energetically to promote the colonization of North America following his return to England. After James I had granted the Virginia Charter in 1606, Gosnold was appointed vice admiral of the London Merchants' fleet of three ships that sailed from England on December 20 of that year. When the vessels reached Cape Henry in April 1607, Gosnold was appointed a member of the resident council for the new settlement. He opposed establishing the settlement on Jamestown Island, but was overruled by Edward Wingfield, president of the council. Gosnold died during an epidemic of malaria. In 2003 archaeologists uncovered what they believed to be Gosnold's remains, just outside the grounds of the historical settlement. Although DNA testing proved inconclusive, forensic and archaeological evidence supported the theory, and the results of the scientists' research were made public as part of the Jamestown settlement's 400th anniversary celebration in 2007.
 

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