protesting the appointment of Sir George Yeardley as Virginia's governor. They consider Yeardley's policies to be too lenient. March–June 1620 Sir Thomas Gates sells 60 shares of his Virginia Company of London stock, collectively worth 6,000 acres of land. At his death he will still own 50 shares. November 3, 1620 King James I appoints Sir Thomas Gates to the Council for New England, a project of the Virginia Company of Plymouth. September 7, 1622 Sir Dudley Carleton writes a letter informing an English official of the death, in the Netherlands, of Sir Thomas Gates, describing him as "an ancient honest gentlemen of this nation." June 13, 1623 Thomas Gates, the son of former Virginia governor Sir Thomas Gates, is given administration of his late father's estate. References Source used: America: Past and Present (Revised Seventh Edition, AP* Edition). Source used: encyclopediavirginia.org External links Genealogy Magazine Bermuda’s Immigrants to the Colonies. Bermuda Online Bermudian Forts. Experience Bermuda Saint George's. www.encyclopediavirginia.org History of Bermuda Colonial governors of Virginia Shipwreck survivors Castaways Virginia colonial people 1585 births 1622 deaths People from Jamestown, Virginia English emigrants