George Weymouth

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English explorer in North America

Historical FiguresLived 1585 to 1612 · aged 27

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George Weymouth was an English explorer and colonist of the area now occupied by the state of Maine. George Weymouth was a native of Cockington, Devon, who spent his youth studying shipbuilding and mathematics. His travels are among the early recorded contacts between Wabanaki nations and people of Northern Europe.

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Illustration of a story of Captain Weymouth demonstrating a sword he magnetized by means of a lodestone to indigenous people at Pemaquid, Maine (now Bristol).

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George Weymouth

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