Author: Zoeth Skinner Eldredge

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Published: 2016-06-25

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781332930098

Excerpt from Eldredge Genealogy: A Record of Some of the Descendants of William Eldredge of Yarmouth He was born in 1552 and died in 1632. He was a great traveler and his ships and merchandise went to all parts of the world. He was one of the founders of Virginia and from 1609 to 1624 was a member of His Majesty's Council for the Virginia Company of London. The brass to John Eldred the Navigator, at Great Saxham, has the arms of the East India Merchants, the Levant or Turkey Merchants and the' Russia Merchants Companies. He left four sons and two daughters. Thomas Lee, of Coton, in Shropshire (the seat of Launcelot Lee, Esq.) married Dorothy, granddaughter of John Eldred. The Pilgrims who came to America in the May ower, in 1620, obtained a patent from the London Company and though contrary winds carried them northward to Cape Cod, they had intended to plant their Colony in Virginia, near the mouth of the Hudson River. As John Eldred of Great Saxham was at that time and for fifteen years, a director of the Virginia Company of London, it is possible that the Eldreds who appeared in New England between the years 1635 and 1645, viz: William, Robert, Samuel, John and Nathaniel, were in some way connected with his family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."