Robert Trelawney was an English merchant and colonist who settled lands in Maine

Maine

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 USA and a politician who sat in the House of Commons of England

House of Commons of England

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  from 1640 to 1642.

Trelawney was the son of Robert Trelawney who was three times mayor of Plymouth. He was a merchant at Plymouth and a colonist. On 1 December 1631 Trelawney and his partner Moses Goodyeare were granted a patent by the Plymouth Company

Plymouth Company

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  for a tract of land between Spurwink River

Spurwink River

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 and Presumpscot River

Presumpscot River

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 and for Richmond's Island at Cape Elizabeth, Maine

Cape Elizabeth, Maine

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. In 1633 Trelawney was Mayor of Plymouth. He built Ham House near Plymouth in 1639.

In April 1640, Trelawney was elected Member of Parliament

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 for Plymouth

Plymouth (UK Parliament constituency)

Plymouth was a parliamentary borough in Devon, which elected two Members of Parliament to the House of Commons in 1298 and again from 1442 until 1918, when the borough was merged with the neighbouring Devonport and the combined area divided into three single-member constituencies.-In the...

 for the Short Parliament

Short Parliament

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. He was re-elected in November 1640 for the Long Parliament

Long Parliament

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 but was expelled from the House of Commons in March 1642, and committed to prison for publicly stating that the Commons had no power to appoint a guard for themselves without the King's consent.

Trelawney married Elizabeth Mayne daughter of Alexander Mayne in 1620. He was the father of Samuel Trelawney who was also MP for Plymouth.