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Jorge de Figueiredo Correia
Jorge de Figueiredo Correia was a Portuguese royal official and treasury scribe to whom King John III granted the Captaincy of Ilhéus in Brazil in 1534. He never went to the colony, governing through his lieutenant Francisco Romero, who founded the town of São Jorge dos Ilhéus. His heirs later sold the captaincy to Lucas Giraldes.
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