RICHMOND, VA. ? Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the skeleton of the man considered the main force behind the first permanent English settlement in America.

Archaelogists believe the remains are of Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, a native of Suffolk, England.

Gosnold pushed the English to send out another group of explorers and settlers after the disappearance of the Roanoke colony, in what is now North Carolina’s Outer Banks, sometime around 1587.

In 1602 he led an expedition to the Maine and Massachusetts coasts, where he discovered and named Cape Cod, for the fish found there, and Martha’s Vineyard, for his infant daughter.

Five years later, he was second-in-command in the three-ship fleet that landed the 107 Virginia Company settlers at Jamestown in May of 1607.