EDWARD MARIA WINGFIELD.
Edward Maria Wingfield, the first President of the Council in Virginia,
was a man of gentle birth and honorable record, who had been a companion
of Ferdinando Gorges in the European wars, subsequently served
in the English army in Ireland, it is presumed with the rank of captain,
as he is so designated in the "List of Adventurers," and, later, had been
a merchant in London. Because of disagreements in the Colony, he returned
to England in 1608. He wrote "A Discourse of Virginia,"
which was first printed in 1860 by the American Antiquarian Society,
with an introduction and notes by Charles Deane, LL.D.
