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Bartholomew Gosnold was born in 1572 in Grundisburgh, UK.
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Cambridge University is a school in Cambridge, England. It was founded in 1209 and it is the second-oldest school in the English-speaking world. Gosnold attended this school before he married and settled down in Bury St. Edmunds. This is a picture of Cambridge University.
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Gosnold explored Maine and Massachusetts for England in 1602. Bartholomew Gosnold was also the person who named Cape Cod, MA. He also named Martha's Vineyard, MA, after his daughter. This is a picture of a Cape Cod beach.
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King James I had granted the Virginia Charter to the new land and appointed Gosnald as vice-admiral of London's three ships that sailed from England right before Christmas that year.
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After the vessel's reached Cape Henry, Gosnold was appointed as a member of the resident council for the new settlement in the area. This is a picture of a lighthouse in Cape Henry
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This is the date that Bartholomew Gosnold died due to an epidemic of malaria.
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It was believed that a skeleton found by an old fort on the edge of Jamestown, Virginia was the skeleton of famous explorer Bartholomew Gosnold. This skeleton was in a very nice wooden coffin with a beautiful staff lying atop the coffin. It is said that only the best leaders were buried in coffins back then, others were just placed in the ground, and Gosnold was definitely a great leader
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Scientists announced to the public that the skeleton they found in Jamestown, Virginia was indeed the true skeleton of Bartholomew Gosnold
