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Edward Maria Wingfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edward-Maria Wingfield was the only member of the Virginia Company’s leaders to go to Jamestown to oversee his investment and became the colony’s first president. Wingfield came from wealthy stock in England and served in the military in Holland and Ireland.
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CAPTAIN EDWARD-MARIA WINGFIELD; PRESIDENT AT JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA - IN 1607 ... This is an imaginary monologue (with both audio and visual text)– with more than two-thirds in Wingfield’s original words - “voiced” in England in 1620 by Captain Edward-Maria Wingfield at Fotheringhay College House, his stepfather's...
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His wife was Elizabeth Scrivener of Ipswich, sister of Matthew Scrivener, who was in 1608 in Jamestown, Virginia, “a particular friend of Captain Edward-Maria Wingfield” (the first President there). There is another monument to Dorothy Wingfield, Harbottle & Elizabeth’s daughter.
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Edward-Maria Wingfield (English businessman and colonist), ... Aspects of the topic "Edward-Maria Wingfield" are discussed in the following places at Britannica...
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Facts about Edward-Maria Wingfield: history of Jamestown Colony, ...of the three ships met to open a box containing the names of members of the colony’s governing council: Newport; Bartholomew Gosnold, one of the behind-the-scenes initiators of the Virginia Company; ... Edward-Maria Wingfield, a major investor;
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Amazon.com: Virginia's True Founder: Edward Maria Wingfield And His
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Whereas our loving and well disposed subjects, Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir George Somers, Knights, Richard Hackluit, Clerk...and Edward Maria Wingfield, Esq...
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The first president of Jamestown was Edward Maria Wingfield, a former military commander and adventurer who was elected according to the provisions of the Virginia Company charter of 1606. One of the seven original members of the Royal Council appointed to administer the colony, Wingfield was a well-meaning but...
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Tom Snediker is a second year graduate student in the history department at Virginia Tech and contributed the biography of Virginia's first president Edward-Maria Wingfield. ... His chief contributions to the site were compilations of laws and court records of seventeenth-century Virginia.
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