Is this the true father of America? In a Suffolk churchyard, the hunt which could rewrite U.S. history

From: Daily Mail | Date: June 14, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

AN English churchyard holds the key to an investigation which could change the face of American history.

The project centres on explorer Bartholomew Gosnold, whose expeditions to the New World 400 years ago were reduced to little more than a footnote after the voyage of the Pilgrim Fathers 13 years later.

Archaeologists believe their search in the grounds of a Suffolk church could put his name on the map as the founding father of modern America.

Gosnold was the driving force behind Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English speaking settlement in America.

But the settlement and his ...

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