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). Research Ferdinando Gorges
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