Anthony Gosnold, Jr.

My third cousin 10 times removed through his great grandmother's sister, Alice Doggett.
My third cousin 9 times removed through his great grandmother's brother, John Doggett.

Born: Before 20 July 1568. 1
Parents: ANTHONY GOSNOD AND DOROTHY BACON
Death: 7 Jan. 1609, drowned in the James River, VA, America. 2

Notes:
Mentioned in the will of his great grandmother,
Anne Doggett-Bacon-Gosnold.

Per the Three Worlds of Captain John Smith, Wood and Blanton, in The Clopton Chronicles (WWW), Barbour states that Anthony arrived in Jamestown on a supply ship which landed in Jan 1608/09. On 7 Jan 1608/09, Anthony and nine other men were drowned in the James River when a storm capsized a small ship in which they were riding.

Database: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index (PILI)
Personal Information:
Immigrant: Gosnold, Anthony
Location: Virginia
Year: 1607
Page Number: 100
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�� Anthony Gosnold, was lost in a boat expedition 7 Jan 1609. �So violent was the wind that the boat sunk; but where or how none doth know, for they were all drowned,� to the number of ten.�
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Sources:

1. Mentioned in the will of his great grandmother, Anne Doggett-Bacon-Gosnold, dated 20 July 1568.
2. Dictionary of National Biography.
3. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, TYLER, LYON GARDINER. 'Census of Inhabitants: Names of the First Settlers at Jamestown, 1607; Names of Those Who Came in the First Supply; Names of Those Who Came in the Second Supply; Names of Inhabitants of Jamestown in 1624.' In The Cradle of the Republic: Jamestown and James River. Richmond Va.: The Hermitage Press, 1906, pp. 100-104. Taken from no. 8745, John Smith. Also in no. 720, Boyer, Ship Passenger Lists, the South, pp. 40-43. And see no. 7860, Sams.

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