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George Thorpe (baptized January 1, 1576 – March 22, 1622, at Berkeley Hundred), was a noted landowner, Member of Parliament, distiller, educator and major investor in early colonial companies in the Americas.
3. Mai 2024 · George Thorpe was a wealthy Englishman who founded Berkeley Hundred, a plantation in Virginia, and served as a councilor for the Virginia Company. He also tried to convert the Virginia Indians to Christianity, but was killed by them in 1622.
Virginia Colonist George Thorpe distills the first batch of American corn whiskey at Berkeley Plantation, an estate situated along the banks of the James River, modernly known as Charles City. Establishing Virginia as the Birthplace of American Spirits, Thorpe documents his accomplishment in a letter to John Smyth dated December 19, 1620. 1799.
Author, lawyer. George Cyrus Thorpe (January 7, 1875 – July 28, 1936) was a United States Marine Corps officer during the Spanish–American War and the Philippine–American War. He was an early writer on military logistics. [4] He was one of 23 Marine Corps officers awarded the Marine Corps Brevet Medal for bravery.
THORPE, George (1575-1622), of Wanswell Court, Berkeley, Glos. and Westminster; later of Berkeley, Virginia. Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010. Available from Cambridge University Press. Constituency. Dates. PORTSMOUTH. 1614. Family and Education.
17. Nov. 2020 · Thorpe, an early leader in the settlement, suggested much of Jamestown’s misery was caused more by “disease of the minde than of the body.” Writing to a friend back in England in late 1620, Thorpe said he felt healthier in the New World than he ever had in his native land.
7. Dez. 2020 · In this letter, dated December 19, 1620, George Thorpe reassures his business partner John Smyth that he and his fellow colonists remain healthy, despite widespread and largely accurate reports of high mortality both for Virginia’s Englishmen as a whole and for those who have settled at Berkeley Hundred.
