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unusual facts about Roger North


Roger North

Roger North (governor) (1585-1652), captain who sailed with Walter Raleigh in 1617 and only governor of the Oyapoc


Oyapoc

Oyapoc was a short-lived English settlement in Guyana, which was established in 1620 under Governor Roger North and abandoned in the same year.


see also

Michael Lok

Lok married firstly, about 1562, Jane Wilkinson, the daughter of William Wilkinson (d.1543), mercer and Sheriff of London in 1538, by Joan North (d.1556), only sister of Edward North, 1st Baron North, and daughter of Roger North (d.1509) and Christian Warcop.