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Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as Edward-Maria Wingfield, (born 1550 in Stonely, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), England; died in 1631) was a soldier, Member of Parliament, (1593) and English colonist in America. He was the grandson of Richard Wingfield and son of Thomas Maria Wingfield. In what was the first election of any kind in the New World, in 1607, Wingfield... Read enhanced Wikipedia article

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Edward Maria Wingfield Edward Maria Wingfield qualifies for Founder of Jamestown on all three counts.

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Edward Maria Wingfield In his Discourse of Virginia (1608), Wingfield comes across as a tough old soldier - too tough with the men, and too old for the job.

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Edward Maria Wingfield Wingfield started bartering with the Indians and/or stocked up with shot game, "for, as his store increased, he mended the common pot: he had laid up besides, provision for 3 weeks' wheat beforehand...I was all for one and one to all."

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    Edward Maria Wingfield

    Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, sometimes hyphenated as Edward-Maria Wingfield, (born 1550 in Stonely, Huntingdonshire (now Cambridgeshire), England; died in 1631) was a soldier, Member of Parliament, (1593) and English colonist in America.
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    Charter of Virginia

    JAMES, by the Grace of God, King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c. WHEREAS our loving and well-disposed Subjects, Sir Thorn as Gales, and Sir George Somers, Knights, Richard Hackluit, Clerk, Prebendary of Westminster, and Edward-Maria Wingfield, Thomas Hanharm and Ralegh Gilbert, Esqrs.
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    Wingfield

    Edward Maria Wingfield, (1550-1631) first President of the Jamestown colony, Virginia, USA
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    Maria (given name)

    Edward Maria Wingfield, English explorer
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    Jamestown, Virginia

    Edward Maria Wingfield, first President of the Council at Jamestown
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    John Smith of Jamestown

    The search for a suitable site ended on May 14, 1607, when Captain Edward Maria Wingfield, president of the council, chose the Jamestown site as the location for the colony.
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    John Ratcliffe

    He became president of the colony upon the deposition of Edward Maria Wingfield on September 10, 1607.
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    Jamestown Settlement

    Wingfield, Jocelyn R., Virginia's True Founder: Edward Maria Wingfield and His Times, 1650-1631 (Athens, GA: WFS, 1993)
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    Christopher Newport

    Wingfield, Jocelyn R., Virginia’s True Founder: Edward Maria Wingfield, etc, [Charleston, 2007, ISBN 978-1-4196-6032-0].
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    New World Tapestry

    | 1607 (11) | Jamestown Settlement | Christopher Newport, Bartholomew Gosnold, Henry Montagu, Robert Cecil, John Smith, Chief Powhatan, George Percy, John Ratcliffe, Walter Cope, Edward Maria Wingfield, Robert Killigrew | Lady’s Smock, Furze, Poppy, Privet, Primrose, Pink Rose, Bindweed, Pellitory, Cornflower, Rue, Plantain |

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