Topic summary
Pero de Barcelos
Extracted from the Wikipedia article João Fernandes Lavrador.
Expeditions
In the mid-1490s Fernandes may have undertaken a voyage with fellow Azorean, Pero de Barcelos, into the northwest Atlantic. They traveled as far as Greenland and perhaps sailed across the Labrador Sea and coasted south along the shore of North America. The timing of this voyage in unclear but in 1506 Barcelos testified in an unrelated lawsuit that he and João Fernandes spent three years to "go discovering" as authorized by the king.