ABSTRACT
After Sir Walter Ralegh abandoned all colonial plans in 1590, a dozen years passed before anyone renewed the attempt. 1 Then in 1602, about the same time that Ralegh sent Captain Samuel Mace to Virginia, two young cousins, Captain Bartholomew Gosnold and Captain Bartholomew Gilbert, ventured a plantation in what is now New England. 2 William Strachey claimed that the Earl of Southampton 'lardgly contrybuted' to the latter, but there is no confirmation of this.3 Certainly others must have been associated with the Earl.
