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Edward Maria Wingfield was a founding member of the Virginia Company of London and the first president of the Council of Virginia..
"Captain" Edward Maria WINGFIELD
1550-1631
- BIRTH: 1550, Stonely, Huntingdonshire now Cambridgeshire, England
Mother: Margaret KERRYE (?-?)
Wife: Unknown
- FACTS: The first elected president in what is today the United States of America.
Edward Maria Wingfield ( – ) was a soldier, Member of Parliament (), and English colonist in America.
- Edward-Maria Wingfield was born in in Stonley Priory, a house about a hundred miles north of London.
- Edward Maria Wingfield was a founding member of the Virginia Company of London and the first president of the Council of Virginia.
- Born about , Son of Thomas Maria Wingfield, M.P, of Huntingdonshire, and Grandson of Sir Richard Wingfield, K.G, of Kimbolton Castle.
- John Smith, a former mercenary who had fought in the Netherlands and Hungary.
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Children:
Pedigree:"Sir" Richard WINGFIELD |Thomas Maria WINGFIELD I| | |Bridget WILTSHIRE | |--"Captain" Edward Maria WINGFIELD | | ______________________ |Margaret KERRYE| |______________________
Captain John Smith wrote that Wingfield was one of the early and prime movers and organisers in 1602-1603 in "showing great charge and industry" in getting the Virginia Venture moving: he was one of the four incorporators for the London Virginia Company in the Virginia Charter of 1606 and one of its biggest financial backers.
He recruited (with his cousin, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold) about 40 of the 105 would-be colonists, and was the only shareholder to sail. In the f
