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FERDINANDO GORGES

Sir Ferdinando Gorges was an English colonist. He was born in 1565 and died in 1647. He was one of the founders of the original Plymouth Company, and sent out a number of unsuccessful expeditions to the New England coast. In 1620 he became a member of the Council for New England. In 1622 he, with Mason, obtained a grant of Northern New England; in 1629, of Western Maine, separately. Under a fuller proprietary grant of 1639, he established a government at Saco, Acomenticus and Gorgeana (now York, Maine).
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