Captain Gabriel Archer | |
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| Born | b. c. 1574 |
| Died | d. c. 1610 |
| Occupation(s) | Sea captain, explorer, governour |
Gabriel Archer was an early explorer who became a settler at Jamestown.[1] He explored Cape Cod with Bartholomew Gosnold before going in the first wave of settlers to Jamestown in 1607. At Jamestown, he clashed with John Smith repeatedly before eventually dying in the winter of 1609-1610, also known as the Starving Time.[2] The Jamestown Rediscovery Project, among other scholars, considers the possibility that Gabriel Archer may have been a Catholic, based on how he was buried.