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Temperance Flowerdew, Lady Yeardley (b. 1587 – d. 1628 ) [ 3 ] [ 4 ] was an early settler of the Jamestown Colony and a key member of the Flowerdew family, significant participants in the history of Jamestown.
A relation from the Flowerdew family, John Pory, served as secretary to the colony from 1618 to 1622. [6] And when Flowerdew Hundred sent representatives to the first General Assembly in Jamestown in 1619, one was Ensign Edmund Rossingham, a son of Temperance Flowerdew's elder sister Mary Flowerdew. [7]
Flowerdew Hundred Plantation dates to 1618/19 with the patent by Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of Virginia, of 1,000 acres (400 ha) on the south side of the James River. Yeardley probably named the plantation after his wife's wealthy father, Anthony Flowerdew, just as he named another plantation " Stanley Hundred " after ...
Temperance Flowerdew: Wife of Richard Barrow Flowerdew Barrow, T. Faulcon [55] Uncertain if husband Richard Barrow accompanied to Virginia Nicolas Bennit: carpenter Sea Venture: William Brian: Sea Venture: Jeffrey Briars ️ Sea Venture: Died in Bermuda, c. 1609-1610 Richard Buck: Reverend, Chaplain Bucke or Bucket, R. Sea Venture
Edmund Rossingham was the nephew of and factor for Sir George Yeardley, who was Governor of the Colony of Virginia, three times between November 1616 and November 1627, and his wife Temperance Flowerdew.
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Temperance Flowerdew came to Jamestown in the fall of 1609 with four hundred ill-fated settlers. It was said that she came over on the Falcon, a convey ship, with other ships when they were caught in a storm, which caused some to go missing.
In March 1627 West remarried, to the widow of Governor George Yeardley, Temperance Flowerdew. She died in December of the same year, and West unsuccessfully litigated against the former Governor's orphaned children for possession of her estate. [ 10 ]