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3 unusual facts about Edward Maria Wingfield


Governor of Virginia

Edward Maria Wingfield was the first President of the Council in residence, making him the first to exercise the actual authority of governing Virginia.

Jamestown Colonists

Master Edward Maria Wingfield, Captain of the Susan Constant, Council President, (d. 1631)

Letheringham

Captain Edward Maria Wingfield (1550–1631), a soldier, Member of Parliament, (1593) and English colonist in America


Sibton Abbey

John Scrivener's sister Elizabeth was married to Harbottle Wingfield of Crowfield Hall, Suffolk, cousin of Edward Maria Wingfield, the first President of the Jamestown Colony.


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