Humphrey Gilbert, when claiming Newfoundland for England…
January 1612 CE
Humphrey Gilbert, when claiming Newfoundland for England in 1587, had found sixteen English ships with twenty French and Portuguese vessels using the harbor of what is today St. John’s.
Settlement had developed on the north side of the harbor but there was no permanent English settler population, and Gilbert’s disappearance at sea during his return voyage had ended any immediate plans for settlement.
Easton’s plunders thirty ships in St. John's on one of his expeditions and holds Sir Richard Whitbourne prisoner, releasing him on the condition that Whitbourne go to England and obtain a pardon for Easton.
The pardon will be granted, but by this time, Easton will have moved on to the Barbary Coast to harass the Spanish.
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