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George Thorpe (baptized January 1, 1576 – March 22, 1622, at Berkeley Hundred), was a noted landowner, Member of Parliament, distiller, educator and major investor in early colonial companies in the Americas.
26 août 2024 · George Thorpe was an investor in the Virginia Company of London and a member of the governor’s Council (1620–1622) who presented himself as an agent of Christian salvation for Virginia Indians.
3 mai 2024 · By way of stark contrast, Waterhouse tells the story of “[t]hat worthy religious Gentleman, Master George Thorpe Esquire,” a member of the governor’s Council and an original investor in the Berkeley Hundred plantation. Thorpe hoped to “truly and earnestly affect their [the Indians’] conversion” to Christianity, and “was ...
26 août 2021 · George Thorpe founded the first distillery in Virginia in 1621 about 20 miles from the Jamestown colony. He is credited as the first person to create corn beer and corn whiskey, which is the ancestor of bourbon. Through the 1600s, small-scale distilling monopolized the landscape, however, as the 1700s emerged, there were increasing ...
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On the 15 September 1619 the Mayor of Bristol issued his Certificate listing all the men to be shipped to Virginia in the barque, theMargaret of Bristol, under the command of Captain Woodleefe: 1. Toby Felgate, gent; 2. Ferdinando Yate, gent; 3. John Blanchard, gent; 4. Henry Peers; 5. Richard Godfry; 6. Thomas Coopy; 7. Rowland Painter; 8. John Co...
John Berkley, esqRobert Horner MasonThomas BrasingtonPhilip BarnesWPA Guide to the Old Dominion, Tour 24Fred Fausz (2007-11-01). "Jamestown at 400: Caught Between a Rock and a Slippery Slope". History News Network. Retrieved 2013-07-07.Roberts, Bruce (1990). Kedash, Elizabeth, ed. Plantation Homes of the James River. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-8078-4278-2.24 mars 2022 · Bare-knuckle middleweight, Gav Thomasy, is set to go boot-to-boot against George Thorpe in what is expected to be an enthralling encounter at TGAO 10’s fight card this Saturday 26 th of March.
George Thorpe Marker. Inscription. On April 3, 1620, The London Company hired George Thorpe to manage the land and tenants for the proposed "university and college" on 11,000 acres on the north bank of the James River above Henrico Town.
