Strafford Bay Colony (Settlers of the New World Map Game)

The Strafford Bay Colony (1620 - Present) is an English settlement on the east coast of North America established in the seventeenth century, situated around Strafford Bay, which is situated north of the Colony of Flaadland and south of the London Company's colony of Blackwall.

Proprietary Colony (1620 - 1654)
The Strafford Bay Colony originally was chartered as a proprietary colony under the leadership of Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford. Although he nominally was the governor of the colony from 1620 to 1641, he never visited the colony during this time, and did not govern in person until after his exile to the colony began. In 1620 the colony was left instead to Wentworth's brother, George Wentworth, who was the first true governor of the colony. George Wentworth would serve as governor for the majority of 1620 to 1641, but on several occasions left the colony in the hands of a deputy.


 * Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1620 - 1641, absentee)
 * George Wentworth (1620 - 1633)
 * Sir Christopher Wandesford, 1st Baronet (1633 - 1635)
 * Henry Pendelton (1635 - 1637)
 * George Wentwoth (1637 - 1639)
 * Sir Thomas Roe (1639 - 1640)
 * George Wentwoth (1640 - 1641)
 * Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford (1641 - 1654, in person)
 * George Wentwoth (1645 - 1646)
 * Samuel Pepys (1651 - 1652)

Crown Colony (1654 - Present)
During Thomas Wentworth's term as governor the English Civil War raged in Britain. Wentworth, a former adviser and friend of Charles I, was outspokenly in favor of the Royalist cause, and Strafford Bay became a haven for similarly minded Englishmen. This led to a tense period following Charles I's death, in which Parliament regarded Strafford Bay at times as a rebellious colony. This was not resolved until 1654, when Wentworth was removed by a Parliamentarian force sent to replace him, turning Strafford Bay into a crown colony.


 * John Berkeley (1654 - Present)