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  1. Sir Thomas Gates (died 1622) was the governor of Jamestown in the English Colony of Virginia (now the Commonwealth of Virginia, part of the United States of America). His predecessor, George Percy, through inept leadership, was responsible for the lives lost during the period called the Starving Time. The English-born Gates arrived to find a ...

  2. May 24, 2017 · Sir Thomas Gates served as governor of Virginia in 1610 and then as lieutenant governor from 1611 until 1614. Born in the southwest of England, he served in the West Indies with Sir Francis Drake and fought with Robert Devereux, second earl of Essex, in Normandy and Cádiz, where Gates was knighted in 1596. Gates was an original investor in the ...

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  3. Jun 20, 2022 · Sir Thomas Gates (fl. 1585–1621), followed George Percy as governor of Jamestown, the English colony of Virginia (now the Commonwealth of Virginia, part of the United States of America). Percy, through inept leadership, was responsible for the lives lost during the period called the "starving time".

  4. Apr 1, 2023 · Sir Thomas Gates served as governor of Jamestown, Virginia in 1610 and then as lieutenant governor from 1611 until 1614. [1] He arrived in Jamestown in 1611 on the Category: Sea Venture, sailed June 18, 1609 [2] [3] [4] In the southwest of England, he served in the West Indies with Sir Francis Drake and fought with Robert Devereux, second earl ...

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  5. British colonial governor. Learn about this topic in these articles: history of Jamestown Colony. In Jamestown Colony: First years (1607–09) The company determined that Thomas Gates would hold that position for the first year of the new charter. He sailed for Virginia in June with a fleet of nine ships and hundreds of new colonists.

  6. Sir Thomas Gates is deputy governor until the arrival of Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, the newly appointed governor of Jamestown. The Virginia Company sends the Reverend Richard Buck to Jamestown to be the colony's first chaplain. Dutch colonists begin operating a glassworks at Jamestown.

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  8. "Sir Thomas Gates was probably the first of this name to come to America. He was a major investor in the Virginia Company, and he made his first of several trips to that colony in 1608. He served as Governor of the small Virginia settlement at Jamestown until 1614 when he returned to England where he died in 1621.

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