John Brereton
English adventurer and chronicler / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other people named John Brereton, see John Brereton (disambiguation).
John Brereton (c. 1571/1572 – c. 1632) was a gentleman adventurer, clergyman, and chronicler of the 1602 voyage to the New World led by Bartholomew Gosnold.
Brereton recorded the first European exploration of Cape Cod and its environs. His account, published in 1602, helped promote the possibilities of English colonisation in what was then known as "the North part of Virginia" and would later become known as New England. Gosnold and his compatriots were the first Englishmen recorded as landing on this part of the North American coastline, now known as New England.