1610–1612) was an Englishman and one of the first settlers in the colony at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
They settled at Cuper's Cove and the colony was governed by John Guy, another Bristol man.
[1] John Guy appointed Colston as deputy governor during his absence from the colony between August 1611 and June 1612,[2] and Colston kept the required journal of weather and what the settlers were doing throughout the winter,[1] though this journal has not survived.
Other authorities claim that he remained longer in Cuper's Cove, and that Colston recorded the first birth of an English child in the settlement on 27 March 1613, when Nicholas Guy and his wife had a baby boy.
[5] Prowse[6] claims that Guy abandoned Newfoundland in 1613, and left Colston in charge of the colony.