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George Weymouth was a native of Cockington, Devon, who spent his youth studying shipbuilding and mathematics.
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George Waymouth
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He had been employed at sea for years, working his way up to a master's rating and attaining some prominence as a navigator. The evidence for the statement that he was sent out in 1593 by the "Russia and Turkey merchants" to discover the Northwest Passage is dubious; but he must have been interested in the search, for, on July 24, 1601, the newly formed East India Company discussed a letter received from him "touching his attempte to be made for the discovery of the north west passage to the Est Indies . " This company, after long negotiations with the Muscovy Company concerning jurisdiction, decided to ignore the latter and to organize the expedition itself. Waymouth was given £100 "to prepare his instruments and other necessaries", and was promised £500 if he found the passage. He commanded the two ships that sailed, early in May 1602, from Radcliffe. They passed southern Greenland on June 18 and bore northwestward to Warwicks Foreland and Hudson Strait. There a mutiny, led by John Cartwright, the chaplain, caused the expedition to turn back. The East India Company were naturally disappointed at this early return but the Privy Council cleared the captain of blame. A second expedition was planned but not carried out. Shortly after his return and before his next voyage, Waymouth addressed the king with a manuscript called "The Jewell of Artes" which dealt with navigation, shipbuilding, and instruments of war. The treatment of these subjects shows that the author was much better educated than the ordinary sea captain. On March 5, 1605, he set out as commander of the Archangel on a voyage of exploration to Virginia for the Earl of Southampton, the Baron of Wardour, and Sir Ferdinando Gorges. There is reason to believe that this expedition was part of an English Catholic attempt at colonization in America. Sankaty Head, Nantucket, was sighted on May 14, but no landing was made because of the shoals. The Archangel stood off to the north and three days later reached Monhegan. For a month the expedition remained near the Georges Islands, trading with the Indians and exploring St. George's River in a shallop that had been brought from England. A cross, which was found by Gilbert in 1607, was set up on one of the islands, now known as Allen Island, and another at the bend of the river near Thomaston, Me. On June 16 Waymouth "waied Anker and quit the Land", carrying with him five captured Indians who later proved useful as pilots to Martin Pring, George Popham, and Raleigh Gilbert. In July 1605 the expedition was back in England and the same year appeared an account of it by James Rosier who was employed on the voyage. In October Waymouth entered into an agreement with Sir John Zouche to assist in planting a colony in Virginia but nothing more was heard of their plans. About that time he prepared a manuscript entitled "Errors and Defects in the usual building of Ships, " written, so he asserted, from twenty years' study of mathematics and shipbuilding. In October 1607, James I granted Waymouth a pension of 36. 4d. per diem. In 1609 he engaged in a controversy with Phineas Pett over alleged imperfections in the latter's ships. The following year he took part in the siege of Jülich on the Continent, and wrote a manuscript entitled "A Journall Relation of the service at the takeing in of the towne and castle of Gulicke. " The last mention of him is the payment of his pension at Easter 1612.
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The dawn of British trade to the East Indies, as recorded in the court minutes of the East India Company, 1599-1603, containing an account of the ... in search of the North-West Passage; prin
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