Francis West

His elder brother, Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (1577–1618), served as a governor of the Virginia Company of London from 1610–1611.

Francis West was one of the distinguished passengers on Captain Christopher Newport's third voyage to Jamestown, Virginia, aboard the Mary and Margaret, which arrived in the summer of 1608.

[citation needed] Newport returned to London with a load of iron ore sold to the East India Company.

On their journey home they met the supply mission of Francis's brother, Thomas West, in the Azores.

Robert Gorges, named Governor General of the Plymouth Council for New England's venture in Massachusetts.

She died in December of the same year, and West unsuccessfully litigated against the former Governor's orphaned children for possession of her estate.