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Sir George Yeardley (1587 – November 13, 1627) was a planter and colonial governor of the colony of Virginia. He was also among the first slaveowners in Colonial America .
Sir George Yeardley died on November 13, 1627. [4] On March 31, 1628, Flowerdew married his successor, Governor Francis West. [4] [13] [25] Temperance Flowerdew died in December [25] of the same year, leaving her three children, aged 5, 8, and 10, as orphans, the estate she had inherited from Yeardley was divided among their three children ...
Virginia became a royal colony in 1624, but Sir Francis, at the request of the crown, remained on as governor until 18 September 1625, when Sir George Yeardley, whom he had succeeded, resumed the office. In 1624, Wyatt resided in Jamestown with his wife, his brother Haute (Hawte), and seventeen servants.
Joseph Croshaw is often, erroneously, connected to Elizabeth Yeardley, daughter of Governor Sir George Yeardley and Temperance Flowerdew. None of the scholarly books on either the Yeardley or the Croshaw families make this claim. Joseph Croshaw died on April 10, 1667, the same day his will was written and recorded [5] in York County, Virginia.
This led researchers to suspect that the 1627 tombstone belonged to Sir George Yeardley. Sir Yeardley was born in Southwark, England, in 1588 and arrived at Jamestown in 1610 after surviving a ...
The tombstone is believed to belong to Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of the earliest English settlement and one of America’s first slaveholders, who was knighted in 1618. The death of ...
William Custis (1633 – 1698) was a North American Colonial British merchant, planter and politician, and one of the founders of the Custis Family of Virginia, one of the First Families of Virginia. The Netherlands-born younger brother of merchant John Custis II was naturalized with his brother in 1658. Their father, Henry Custis, had ...
The tombstone, from 1627, was erected at the Jamestown settlement following the death of Sir George Yeardley, a colonial governor of Virginia. Mystery surrounding 400-year-old Jamestown gravestone ...