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Ferdinando Gorges
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1565 – 1647
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Who was Ferdinando Gorges?
Sir Ferdinando Gorges, 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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- Born
- 1565
Somerset - Children
- Lived in
- Maine
- New Hampshire
- Died
- 1647
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on July 23, 2013
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