Person:Raleigh Gilbert (1)

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Raleigh Gilbert
b.Abt 1578 England
d.1626 England
m. 1571
  1. Sir John GilbertAbt 1572 - 1608
  2. Bartholomew GilbertAbt 1575 - 1603
  3. Raleigh GilbertAbt 1578 - 1626
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Raleigh Gilbert
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1578 England
Marriage Englandto Elizabeth Kelley
Death? 1626 England
References
  1. Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1915)
    1:18.

    Gilbert, Raleigh, a son of Sir Humphrey Gilbert, brother of Sir John Gilbert, and nephew of Sir Walter Raleigh; very active in the settlement of America; an incorporator in the first Virginia charter April 10, 1606; May 31, 1607, sailed from Plymouth, England, in the expedition sent out by the Plymouth Company to the Kennebec river in Maine; was member of the local council, and after the death of George Popham was president; after a winter of much suffering he returned with the settlers to England; married Elizabeth, daughter of John Kelley, Esq., of Devon; member of the council for New England in 1620; he died in 1626, leaving seven children, many of whose descendants are living in Cornwall, England.