Robert Gorges (c. 1595 – late 1620s)[1] was a captain in the Royal Navy and briefly Governor-General of New England from 1623 to 1624.
After having served in the Venetian wars, Gorges was given a commission as Governor-General of New England and emigrated to modern Weymouth, Massachusetts, in 1623, building his settlement on the site of the failed Wessagusset Colony.
Francis West was named admiral of the Plymouth Council for New England to advise him, along with another English explorer and naval Captain, Christopher Levett, who was attempting a settlement at Portland, Maine, which also later failed.
[2] Levett was named to advise Gorges as the governor of the Plymouth Colony.
Apparently frustrated by the pace of settlement and an obdurate attitude of the new colonists towards English interference,[3] Capt.