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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.
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 ...
Flowerdew Hundred dates to 1618–19 with the patent of 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) on the south side of the James River in Virginia. Sir George Yeardley, the Governor and Captain General of the Virginia Colony, may have named the property after his wife, Temperance Flowerdew. Their primary residence was in Jamestown when Sir George called the first ...
While out-of-wedlock children occurred in early Jamestown, it would have been unthinkable for a woman of Temperance Flowerdew's station. It is likely that they got married between 1610 and 1615. Temperance Flowerdew had also sailed for Virginia in the 1609 expedition, aboard the Faulcon , arriving at Jamestown in August 1609. [ 4 ]
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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Flowerdew became Lady Yeardley when Yeardly became the governor of the colony. [19] Her husband made a treaty in which he had one thousand acres of land granted in his wife's name. After her husband died, Flowerdew married Governor Frances West in 1628. She died a few months later. [20]