Description

The first biography of the first president of the first successful English colony in the New World.

Book written by Jocelyn R. Wingfield of the Wingfield Family Society

Revised and updated 2007. Jamestown 400th Anniversary Edition with an introduction by Stephen Blackehart. 498 pages.

Jocelyn Wingfield has updated this wonderful biography of the first successful English colony in the New World. Recommended reading for anyone interested in the founding of our nation.

From the back cover:

When 57-yeard old Edward Maia Wingfield  first set foot in the soil of the New World, he was already a man who had seen a lot. He had been a lawyer, a commander of troops fighting the Imperial Spanish Army, a POW, and a Member of the Parliament.

He had become a fortifications expert in Ireland, and finally a businessman, helping to incorporate the first Virginia Company in 1606. But it wasn’t until now, standing on the shores of this strange and hostile land in 1607, that the grizzled captain was to have his greatest adventure.

In a time when no English colony had ever succeeded overseas, 15 years before the Mayflower, something unprecedented happened.

A council, selected by the company to run the colony’s affairs, actually elected a leader to govern the 105 men, boys and all the land in this part of the world.

With the warships of France and Spain patrolling the seas behind, myriad warring native tribes surrounding the, and not enough food to survive, their choice of a leader was critical.

The man they chose—their President—was Edward Maria Wingfield.

This is his story.