A Discourse of a Discoverie for a New Pasage to Cataia, Colony of Virginia, Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Sir Humphrey Gilbert – The First Colonial Governor Of Virginia

Hamilton Historical Records

Queen Elizabeth charted the an expedition to establish the Colony of Virginia after Sir Humphrey Gilbert wrote, “A Discourse of a Discoverie for a New Pasage to Cataia”. Sir Humphrey Gilbert would become the first colonial governor of the commonwealth of Virginia.

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I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.

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