Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Gorges” in entry colonial-settlements of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
... shores of Massachusetts soon afterwards, and tile present foundations of the State of Massachusetts were laid at Plymouth in 1620 (Pilgrim fathers). In 1622 the Plymouth Company granted to Mason and Gorges a tract of land bounded by the rivers Merrimac and Kennebec, the ocean, and the St. Lawrence River, and fishermen settled there soon afterwards.
Mason and Gorges dissolved their partnership in 1629...
| Max. Freq. | Min. Freq. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entity | Corpus | Doc | Corpus | Doc | |||
| † | Ferdinando Gorges | 100 | 71 | 22 | 13 | 0 user votes | |
| Robert Gorges | 44 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 0 user votes | ||
| Ferdinand Gorges | 40 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Gorges | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Sir Ferdinando Gorges | 20 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Thomas Gorges | 14 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| William Gorges | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| Fernando Gorges | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
| John Gorges | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes | ||
† This entity has been selected by the automated classifier as the most likely match in this context. It may or may not be the correct match.