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Ferdinando Gorges
b.1565
d.1647
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Name Ferdinando Gorges
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1565
Death[1] 1647


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Sir Ferdinando Gorges (1565–1647), the "Father of English Colonization in North America", was an early English colonial entrepreneur and founder of the Province of Maine in 1622, although Gorges himself never set foot in the New World.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Ferdinando Gorges, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).