He served in a ship of his own against the Great Armada under Lord Admiral Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk.
He assisted the pirates Peter Easton and Henry Mainwaring to seek pardons from James I of England.
Whitbourne was sent to establish law and order in the colony, he was the first to hold a court of justice in North America at Trinity in 1615.
[2] In 1620, Whitbourne published A Discourse and Discovery of New-found-land in order to promote colonisation on the island.
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