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1572
birth
Bartholomew Gosnold was born in Grundisburgh, Suffolk, England in the year 1572 -
he gets married and settles
Bartholomew Gosnald attended cambridge university before marrying and settling at bury st -
sailed to the new world
Bartholomew Gosnald set sail to the new world in 1602 landing on the lower coast of Maine and then sailed further south and found a peninsula that he then named cape cod -
return to England
Bartholomew Gosnald returned to England with lumber, sassafras, and furs he then worked hard to promote the colonization of north America -
the merchants
Bartholomew Gosnold was appointed to vice admiral in 1606 of the London merchants' which set sail December 20th of that year -
The settlement in Jamestown
Bartholomew Gonsnold was appointed as a member of the residential council. He opposed for the establishment of a settlement in Jamestown but was ultimately overruled by Edward Wingfield -
Death
Bartholomew Gosnold died in 1607 in Jamestown. he died from malaria during an epidemic