biography
pronunciation:
[klaybaw(r)n]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1587–c.1677)
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| biography:
| Colonist and agitator, born in Crayford Parish, Kent County, SE England, UK. In 1620 he was appointed surveyor for Virginia and sailed from England with Sir Francis Wyatt, the newly appointed governor of Virginia, arriving in Chesapeake Bay (1621) en route to Jamestown. He feuded with the Lords of Baltimore over the right to an island settlement on Chesapeake Bay where he built a post to conduct fur trading expeditions with Indians. The island was named (1628) for his native Kent County and he also later named New Kent County in Virginia. He conducted a long territorial dispute with Maryland where he incited an insurrection and held control during 1644–6. In 1650, following the English Civil War, Parliament appointed him as one of two commissioners to govern Virginia and Maryland. |
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