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    Gosnold is a town that encompasses the Elizabeth Islands in Dukes County, Massachusetts, United States. At the 2020 census, the town population was 70...
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    coast of Massachusetts, United States, in Buzzards Bay. It is one of the Elizabeth Islands, which make up the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts. Penikese...
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    largest of the Elizabeth Islands in southeastern Massachusetts. It is part of the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts, and is currently owned by the Forbes family...
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    Massachusetts (/ˌmæsəˈtʃuːsɪts/ , /-zɪts/ MASS-ə-CHOO-sits, -⁠zits; Massachusett: Muhsachuweesut [məhswatʃəwiːsət]), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
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    Bartholomew Gosnold (1571 – 22 August 1607) was an English barrister, explorer and privateer who was instrumental in founding the Virginia Company in...
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    home to the village of Cuttyhunk. It lies entirely within the town of Gosnold. Cuttyhunk is about a mile and a half long, and three-quarters of a mile...
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    the Elizabeth Islands and is entirely part of the town of Gosnold in Dukes County, Massachusetts. At one point it contained the Gull Island Bomb Area, a...
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    a historical problem, as Gosnold and his companions are believed to have been the first English to land in America. Gosnold made a point of describing...
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  • Naushon may refer to: Naushon Island, one of the Elizabeth Islands in Gosnold, Massachusetts USS Naushon (SP-517), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission...
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    colonists in 1660 and was officially incorporated in 1686. Bartholomew Gosnold named the settlement for Falmouth, Cornwall, England, his home port. Early...
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  • Forbes family (category Families from Massachusetts)
    Martha's Vineyard and southwest of Cape Cod, and within the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts. Forbes and his descendants have used the property as a summer retreat...
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    populous town in Berkshire County and, after Gosnold and Monroe, the third least populous in Massachusetts. The name of the town is a tribute to George...
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    Massachusetts is a state located in the Northeastern United States. Municipalities in the state are classified as either towns or cities, distinguished...
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    11, 1811) was an American philanthropist and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. He has born to James Bowdoin in Boston, and graduated from Harvard...
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    population in the Commonwealth, with only Gosnold having fewer residents. Monroe is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Monroe...
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    Nashawena Island (category Coastal islands of Massachusetts)
    as of the 2000 U.S. Census.[1] The island is part of the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts. Nashawena is a Wampanoag word meaning "middle island". Rock Island...
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    separated by Vineyard Sound, and constitute the town of Gosnold in Dukes County, Massachusetts. The island's creation was caused by different gravels and...
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    Monohansett Island (category Gosnold, Massachusetts)
    located in Dukes County, Massachusetts, just east of Naushon Island and 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of Woods Hole in the Town of Gosnold. The name is of Indian...
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    Early European explorers of the New England coast included Bartholomew Gosnold who named Cape Cod in 1602, Samuel de Champlain who charted the northern...
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    Chilmark Great Island, Chilmark Nomans Land, Chilmark Elizabeth Islands, Gosnold Naushon Island Nashawena Island Pasque Island Cuttyhunk Island Penikese...
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    Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602. It was settled in 1638, as one of the first towns in the Plymouth Colony, one year behind Sandwich further south in Massachusetts on...
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    Gabriel Archer, who kept a record of the 1602 expedition of Bartholomew Gosnold from Falmouth, Cornwall to what was then known as Northern Virginia. On...
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    Clinton, Cummington, Danvers, Dedham, Dennis, Erving, Essex, Florida, Gosnold, Grafton, Groton, Hancock, Harvard, Harwich, Hawley, Holbrook, Holliston...
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    Uncatena Island (category Gosnold, Massachusetts)
    and was uninhabited as of the 2000 census. It is part of the Town of Gosnold. US Census Bureau. "Census.gov". Census.gov. 41°31′0.04″N 70°42′20″W /...
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    cities and towns in Massachusetts (along with Rockport, Provincetown and Aquinnah) that only touches one other town by land (Gosnold and Nantucket do not...
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  • may refer to: Nashawena Island, one of the Elizabeth Islands in Gosnold, Massachusetts USS Nashawena (AG-142), a U.S. Navy cable ship This disambiguation...
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    Senate special election in Massachusetts was a special election held on January 19, 2010, in order to fill the Massachusetts Class I United States Senate...
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    Trump won Massachusetts in a landslide over Former Governor Bill Weld, winning almost every town, losing only Pelham and Gosnold. 2020 Massachusetts Democratic...
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    Nonamesset Island (category Uninhabited islands of Massachusetts)
    uninhabited as of the 2000 census. The island is part of the town of Gosnold, Massachusetts. Painter Robert Swain Gifford was born on the island in 1840. "Nonamesset...
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  • Otter Tail County, Minnesota – Gov. Willis A. Gorman Gosnold, Massachusetts – Bartholomew Gosnold (settler) Gouldsboro, Maine – Robert Gould (landholder)...
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