GOSNOLD, BARTHOLOMEW (d. 1607), English navi gator. In 1602, in command of the "Concord," chartered by Sir Walter Raleigh and others, he crossed the Atlantic ; coasted from what is now Maine to Martha's Vineyard, landing at and naming Cape Cod and Elizabeth island (now Cuttyhunk) and giving the name Martha's Vineyard to the island now called No Man's Land; and returned to England with a cargo of furs, sassafras and other commodities obtained in trade with the Indians about Buzzard's bay. In London he actively promoted the colonization of the regions he had visited and, by arousing the interest of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and other influential persons, contributed toward securing the grants of the charters to the Lon don and Plymouth companies in 1606. In 1606-07 he was associ ated with Christopher Newport in command of the three vessels by which the first Jamestown colonists were carried to Virginia. As a member of the council he took an active share in the affairs of the colony, seconding the efforts of John Smith to introduce order, industry and system in the colony. He died from swamp. fever on Aug. 22, 1607.
See The Works of John Smith (Arber's Edition, 1884) ; and J. M. Brereton, Brief and True Relation of the North Part of Virginia (reprinted by B. F. Stevens, 19o1), an account of Gosnold's voyage of 16o2.