14 Facts About Bartholomew Gosnold

Bartholomew Gosnold led the first recorded European expedition to Cape Cod.

Bartholomew Gosnold is considered by Preservation Virginia to be the "prime mover of the colonization of Virginia".

Bartholomew Gosnold's parents were Anthony Gosnold of Grundisburgh and Dorothy Bacon of Hessett.

Bartholomew had a younger brother Anthony, born sometime between 1573 and 1578, who accompanied him to Virginia as well as a cousin named Anthony Gosnold who was still living in Virginia in 1615.

Bartholomew Gosnold graduated from Jesus College at the University of Cambridge and studied law at the Middle Temple.

Bartholomew Gosnold was a friend of Richard Hakluyt and sailed with Walter Raleigh.

Bartholomew Gosnold married Mary Goldinge, daughter of Robert Goldinge of Bury St Edmunds and his wife Martha Judd, at Latton, Essex, in 1595.

Bartholomew Gosnold early became a principal proponent of English New World settlement.

Captain Bartholomew Gosnold obtained backing to attempt to found an English colony in the New World and in 1602 he sailed from Falmouth, Cornwall, in a small Dartmouth bark, the Concord, with thirty-two on board.

Bartholomew Gosnold's men were interested with the trade that would enrich them and their commercial underwriters in Europe so spent more time tending to the harvesting of sassafras root and cedar wood than daily encounters with the Natives.

Bartholomew Gosnold spent several years after his return to England promoting a more ambitious attempt; he obtained from King James I an exclusive charter for a Virginia Company to settle Virginia.

Bartholomew Gosnold himself served as vice-admiral of the expedition, and captain of the Godspeed.

Bartholomew Gosnold solicited the support of Matthew Scrivener, cousin of Edward Maria Wingfield.

Bartholomew Gosnold was popular among the colonists and opposed the location of the colony at Jamestown Island due to what he perceived as its unhealthy location; he helped design the fort that held the initial colony.