James Rosier (1573-1609) was an English explorer, notable for his account of a 1605 expedition to America, in which he describes native peoples and fauna of northern New England. He describes a journey along a "great river", but the identity of the river is not known for certain.

Life

Rosier was born 1 June 1573 in Winston, Suffolk, the son of James Rosier (d. 1581), a Church of England clergyman, and his wife, Dorothy Johnson. He was baptised

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