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| Birth: | 28 Jul 1588 in St. Saviour's Parish, Southwark, Surrey; bapt. |
| Death: | 13 Nov 1627 |
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| Burial: the church at Jamestowne, Virginia |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_YeardleyYeardley was the son of Ralph Yeardley (1549-1604), a Londonmerchant-tailor, and Rhoda Marston (d. 1603). He chose not tofollow his father into trade, but instead became a soldier andjoined a company of English foot-soldiers to fight the Spanishin the Netherlands. As captain of a personal bodyguard, he wasselected to serve Sir Thomas Gates during his term as Governorof Virginia.The ShipwreckYeardley set sail on 1 June with the newly appointed Gatesaboard the Sea Venture, the flag-ship of the 1609 expedition toJamestowne. After seven weeks at sea and eight days fromexpected landfall the convoy ran into a tropical storm and theSea Venture was shipwrecked in the Bermudas. No lives were lost,despite numerous problems and civil unrest amongst the formerpassengers, causing Gates to declare martial law, in 10 monthstime two small ships were built, the 30 ton Deliverance and thepinnance Patience, they arrived at Jamestowne 23 May 1610.[edit] JamestowneThe shipwreck survivors found the colonists of Jamestowne indesperate condition. Most of the settlers had died fromsickness, starvation, or been killed by Indians. Sir ThomasGates agreed with the Jamestowne settlers to abandon the colonyand return to England. He ordered Captain George Yeardley tocommand his soldiers to guard the town preventing settlers fromsetting fire to the structures that were evacuated. Lord De LaWarr soon arrived bringing supplies to save the strugglingcolony. Captain Yeardley was co-commander of the early FortsHenry and Charles at Kecoughtan. In October 1610, Lord De LaWarr ordered Captain Yeardley and Captain Edward Brewster tolead 150 men into the mountains in search of silver and goldmines. Deputy-GovernorshipMarriage and Deputy-Governorship: In 1613 Yeardley marriedTemperence Flowerdew, daughter of Anthony Flowerdew ofHethersett, County Norfolk, and his wife Martha Stanley ofScottow, County Norfolk. Temperence had also sailed for Virginiain the 1609 expedition aboard the Faulcon, arriving atJamestowne in August 1609. In 1616 George Yeardley wasdesignated Deputy-Governor of Virginia. One of his first dutieswas to come to an agreement with the Chickahominy Indians thatsecured food and peace for two years. He served from 1616-1617.Yeardley was appointed Deputy-Governor again in 1625.[edit] Knighted and Governorships of VirginiaSir George Yeardley was knighted at Newmarket, England, on 24November 1618, six days later he was commissioned Governor ofVirginia. He was granted 300 acres of land to help defer thecost of maintaining himself as governor. He owned anotherprivate plantation on the south side of the James River oppositeWeyanoke, named Flowerdew Hundred.Flowerdew Hundred plantation dates to 1618 with the patent of1000 acres on the south side of the James River in Virginia. SirGeorge Yeardley, a Governor and Captain General of the VirginiaColony, named the property after his wife, Temperance Flowerdew.The plantation elected two representatives to the first GeneralAssembly in Jamestown in 1619: one was an ancestor of PresidentThomas Jefferson. With a population of about thirty, theplantation was economically successful with thousands of poundsof tobacco produced along with corn, fish and livestock. SirGeorge paid 120 pounds (possibly a hogshead of tobacco) to buildthe first windmill in British America in 1621.The plantation survived the 1622 onslaught of Powhatan Indianslosing only six people. It remained an active and fortifiedprivate plantation unlike many others in the area, such as theCitie of Henricus. The windmill was an English post design andwas transferred by deed in the propertyís 1624 sale to AbrahamPiersey, a Cape Merchant of the London Company.Yeardley led the first representative General Assembly, thelegislative House of Burgesses, to meet on American soilconvened at the church in Jamestowne, 30 July 1619. One of thefirst acts of the this representative body was to set the priceof tobacco. Yeardley was appointed Deputy-Governor again in1625. He served a second time as Governor from 4 March 1626/7until his death 13 November 1627. Sir George Yeardley is buriedin the church at Jamestowne, Virginia.Yeardley married Temperance Flowerdew, daughter of AnthonyFlowerdew and Martha Stanley. The couple had three children:Elizabeth Yeardley (1615-1660), married Major Joseph Croshaw. Noissue. Argoll Yeardley. Francis Yeardly (1620-23). After Yeardley's death Temperance Flowerdew married GovernorFrancis West.
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