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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 .
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 ...
Sir Yeardley was born in Southwark, England, in 1588 and arrived at Jamestown in 1610 after surviving a shipwreck near Bermuda. King James I knighted him when he went back to England in 1617.
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 ...
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 ...
George Webb: Captain, sergeant-major Lion: Thomas Whittingham ️ Cape merchant (treasurer) [77] Sea Venture → pinnace (ship's boat) Lost at sea (or killed by Native Americans) after sailing a pinnace (with Henry Ravens) for help after marooning on Bermuda, 1609 [77] Thomas Wood [78] Captain Unitie: George Yeardley: Captain of the guard for ...
c. 1618 April: Lord De La Warr dies en route to Virginia, and is replaced by George Yeardley [12] c. October, 1618: George Yeardley and wife Temperance Flowerdew travel to England [36] November 18, 1618: The Virginia Company of London issues its "Instructions to George Yeardley," which includes the establishment of the ancient planter/headright ...
The case for it belonging to Yeardley is reinforced by the will of Adam Thorowgood, a relative of Yeardley, who stated in his 1680 will that he would like to have a tombstone of marble with the coat of arms of Sir George Yeardley and himself, with the same inscription as on the Knight's Tomb. [12]