词条 | Gosnold, Bartholomew |
释义 | 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. ![]() |
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