ABSTRACT
William Clovell, who had gone to the Amazon in North’s company in 1620, went as governor with Thomas Hixon as his deputy. Johannes Vingboon’s chart of the mouth of the Amazon, indicates that Clovell and Hixon built their stockade, North fort or Pattacue, down river of Okiari and Tort op d Torego’ further inland on the tributary where the village of ‘Callepoke’ was situated, just above the Equator. One Captain William Bampfield was appointed governor of the colony, superseding the authority of both Harcourt, Clovell and their deputies. Bampfield was to take new colonists out to the Amazon in the Exchange of London under one Captain Smith. By 1630 Clovell’s settlers at North fort had similarly divided into discontented factions. Even though the Exchange brought out new planters their news of the affairs of the company could only have been unsettling, putting established lines of authority in question.
