George Weymouth (Waymouth) ( c. 1585 – c. 1612 ) was an English explorer of the area now occupied by the state of Maine .
George Weymouth was a native of Cockington, Devon, who spent his youth studying shipbuilding and mathematics.
In 1602 Weymouth was hired to seek a northwest passage to India by the recently formed East India Company . [1] He sailed the ship Discovery 300 miles into Hudson Strait [2] but turned back on July 26, as the year was far spent and many men were ill. Weymouth reached Dartmouth on September 5, 1602.