What was wrong with the first president of Jamestown?

Answer 1

Edward Marie Wingfield died shortly after arrival and was not able to fulfill his dreams. No one know his name.

Edward Wingfield, the grandson of Lord Robert Wingfield, and his first cousin Robert Gosnold, were the principal financial founders of Jamestown, Virginia.

Edward Maria Wingfield, as the first president of Jamestown Colony, is recognized as the first elected president in what is today the United States of America.

Lord Robert Gosnold was the principle financial backers of the failed Roanoke Colony in North Carolina, where he sent his cousin, Sir Walter Raleigh in 1586.

A few years later, he also financedJamestown Colony, and sent his grandson Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold to lead the first party of explorers and establish the colony.

With half of the colonists, Bartholomew died shortly after arriving in Virginia and the leadership of the colony passed to the arrogant and boastful Captain John Smith.

John Smith rarely mentioned Captain Gosnold in his 1620's imaginative writings on the founding of Jamestown and claimed credit for the colony establishment himself.

Specifically, his incredibly embellished stories of Pocahontas and saving the colony of Jamestown from savages have been passed on as fact for more than 350 years.

Bartholomew Gosnoldis considered by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) to be "The prime mover of the colonization of Virginia".

He led the first European expedition to Cape Cod, on May 15, 1602, and established Martha's Vineyard, one of the earliest English settlements on the continent.

Bartholomew Gosnold's grave was recently discovered just outside the main gate of the old Jamestown Colony. Please don't skip this incredible story.