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  Pirate Walks in Bristol
Yeamans had 13 children, John was the eldest (born in 1610) and Robert was born in 1616.
Sir John Yeamans (as he later became) was one of the early settlers to prosper on the Caribbean island of Barbados.
Yeamans’ brother Robert was the Sheriff, Mayor (in 1669) and Chief Magistrate of Bristol, as well as a ship owner and a merchant, who had an early involvement in the Caribbean trade.
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 Government-Fagg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Yeamans, a Royalist, a Barbadian, and a friend of Sir John Colleton, sent his son to London to negotiate with the Lords Proprietors.
The Agreement was a contract with the Yeamans group in which the Lords Proprietors promised to provide certain cannons and other weapons, make large headright grants to settlers, grant large tracts to investors, and to honor the terms of the attached Concessions.
Although Yeamans was commissioned governor of both Clarendon and the new Craven County in the south, a memorandum in the Lords Proprietors’ entry book indicated that Craven was to have a separate governor as soon as it was settled.
www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us /sections/hp/colonial/nchr/Subjects/fagg.htm   (5665 words)

  
 Yeamans
John (later Sir John) Yeamans had it built before he shot Colonel Benjamin Berringer and fled to Carolina.
Yeamans had become careless with his affections and Colonel Berringer, a military man of honour, had only one recourse.
According to the genealogy contained in The History of The Island of Antigua Sir John Yeamans was the son of Robert Yeamans who was the son of John and Blanche (Germain) Yeamans.
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 Colonial South Carolina
In 1671, Sir John Yeamans, whom we have met in North Carolina, joined the colony, bringing with him about two hundred African slaves, and ere this year had closed two ships bearing Dutch emigrants arrived from New York.
Sayle was their leader and first governor, but he soon died and was succeeded by Yeamans, who ruled for four years, when he was dismissed for having enriched himself at the expense of the people.
Yeamans was followed by John West, an able and honorable man, who held the office for nine years.
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 Osgood, The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century. Volume II. Part III. Chapter IX.
When, in 1663 and 1665, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Albemarle, Lords Craven, Ashley, and John Berkeley, Sir George Carteret, Sir William Berkeley, and Sir John Colleton procured their patents for Carolina, an order in council was issued for the institution of legal proceedings against the claims of the early assignees.
Yeamans himself soon returned to Barbadoes and did not visit the colony again, except possibly in the summer of 1666, when there is some evidence that he held an assembly at Cape Fear.
Yeamans was also charged with subordinating the interests of Carolina to those of the Barbadoes and his own trade with that island.
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 Pirate Walks in Bristol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In 1670 with three ship-loads of emigrants that had arrived from England Yeamans founded a settlement further south at Charles Town on the Ashley river for the 8 Proprietors that the King had bestowed the land rights upon.
John Lock, Sir John Yeamans, and James Carteret were created landgraves.
Yeamans would have become Governor, but he is listed as the 3rd Governor only because he did not arrive with the original settlers.
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John White preferred to take the chances of plunder in the coming engagement to fulfilling his duty to the poor people at Roanoke who were waiting so anxiously for his return.
To the genius and bravery of the leader, Captain John Smith, was due the permanence of the settlement at Jamestown.
Yeamans had emigrated to Barbadoes, hoping to mend his broken fortunes, and being pleased with the report of Captain Hilton's expedition, he determined to remove to Carolina.
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This John Yeamans was the son of John Yeamans, because Margaret Yeamans was already a widow by September 1674.
Margaret Yeamans, the daughter of John and Margaret Yeamans, married James Moore the son of Roger Moore, the leader of the Irish rebellion of 1640.
John Knight was detained until in custody in April, and was met in a similar manner on his return to Bristol.
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John's philosophy is that there is a great home for everyone and he is going to find it for you.
John has expertise in assisting seniors with their housing situations having worked as an adult home administrator for assisted care facilities.
John and his wife have four children and four grandchildren.
www.jyeamans.com   (266 words)

  
 SOUTH CAROLINA - LoveToKnow Article on SOUTH CAROLINA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
1720-1776), Christopher Gadsden (1724-1805), and John Rutledge (1739-1800) attended the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, an intercolonial committee of correspondence was appointed in 1773, and delegates were sent to the Continental Congress in 1774 and 1775.
Hermann von Hoists John C. Calhoun (Boston, 1892), is written from the extreme nationalistic and anti-slavery point of view.
For the religious history see Frederick Daicho, An historical A ccount of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina from the first Settlement of the Province to the War of the Revolution (Charleston, 1820); G. Bernheim, History of the German Settlements and of the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina (Philadelphia, 1872).
100.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SO/SOUTH_CAROLINA.htm   (7644 words)

  
 Barbados Archives- WorldSagas.com-6ii-Round House and the Yeamans Saga
The land was fertile and ideal for agriculture besides being close to Bathsheba and the spectacular view of Xherry Tree Hill.
Yeamans married Mrs.Berringer and moved into the Abbey, shortly after they buried Benjamin.
John Yeamans became a leading figure in the founding colony.
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 Sir John Yeamans
Not all their request was granted, but Sir John was appointed their governor, with a jurisdiction that extended from Cape Fear to San Marco.
Yeamans seems to have managed affairs satisfactorily, but after a time he returned to the West Indies.
The governor soon sunk under the climate and the hardships to which all the settlers were exposed, and Sir John Yeamans was appointed his successor, He proved, however, to be "a sordid calculator," bent only on acquiring a fortune.
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 RootsWeb: YOUMANS-L [YOUMANS] Sir John Yeamans
Sir John Yeamans was the son of John Yeamans, brewer of Bristol,
To kinsman, Francis Yeamans, forgiveness of all debts.
Sir John Yeamans was a Colonel in the Royalist Army in England, and
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 Encyclopedia: John Yeamans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
More than half of them start working between the ages of 10 and 14.
Sir John Yeamans (born about 1605 in Bristol, England, died about 1676 in Barbadoes, Wisconsin) was the Governor of Carolina.
Sir John was appointed their governor and in the autumn of 1665 he arrived from Barbadoes with a band of emigrants and founded a town.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Yeamans   (278 words)

  
 Circus History Message Board
John Zweifel was and perhaps remains the owner of a traveling model of the floating theater named the "Cotton Blossom." Fred Dahlinger
Though John Hanks is not mentioned, all the features in were the same as listed in the Olathe article.
John Hanks' Museum of Living Wonders was in Olathe, KS the same day as Yankee Robinson.
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 John Yeamans - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Yeamans - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 11:09, 5 May 2005.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about John Yeamans contains research on
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John Guy, an eminent local merchant, was appointed the first governor of this body, and his heart was thoroughly in the enterprise.
John Pope was the son of Michael Pope, soapmaker, to whom he was apprenticed in 1630.
John Pope was an eighth part owner of a ship called the Endeavour of about 200 tons.
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 New Hanover County Public Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Vassall of Barbados financed and led the first permanent settlers to the Lower Cape Fear, landing in May 1664, and by November had established Charles Town, 20 miles upstream on the west bank of the "Charles River" (Clarendon River on Ogilby’s map in 1672).
Sir John Yeamans, William’s father, was appointed "governor of our Country of Clarendon neare southerly..." In October, Sire John stopped at Charles Town on his way to Port Royal and found the colonists in desperate need of supplies.
A 1735 land grant confirms a previous warrant of 640 acres to John Watson in New Hanover Precinct opposite the Thoroughfare.
www.co.new-hanover.nc.us /LIB/history/lhcfhist.asp   (2565 words)

  
 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg1995 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Gen [Parents] was born 9 Jan 1662 in Surinam, during government of his father.
Mary YEAMANS [Parents] married William BYAM Colonel in Army.
Edward BYAM was born 1712 and died 13 Aug 1768.
www.peterwestern.f9.co.uk /maximilia/pafg1995.htm   (143 words)

  
 Bristol Delftware Apprentices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
John Pottery was the son of William Pottery.
John Hayden, son of John, late of Plymouth, a cordwainer.
Son of John of St Philip and Jacob, Bristol, cordwainer.
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 Colonial North Carolina
In 1665, Sir John Yeamans, an English nobleman of broken fortunes, came from the Barbadoes with a company of planters and joined the few New Englanders who had remained on the Cape Fear River.
In 1695, John Archdale, a good Quaker, became governor of both Carolinas, and from this time the settlements were much more prosperous that before.
But the people rallied, and, receiving aid from South Carolina, they, led by Colonels John Barnwell and James Moore, hunted the red men from place to place and in a great battle near the Neuse destroyed four hundred of their warriors.
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 13 Originals
Little Virginia Dare, was the granddaughter of John White, the appointed Governor of the "Lost Colony", and was probably the first English baby born in the New World.
A colonist, John Rolfe (who incidentally was the first of the colonists to cultivate commercial quality tobacco and start the Colony on its way towards profitability) eventually married her and took her to England.
In 1623 two groups of English settlers, sent by Captain John Mason, arrived in what is now called New Hampshire (after John Masons home County of Hampshire) and established a fishing village near the mouth of the Piscataqua River.
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 Yeamans Family Genealogy Forum
JOHN HENRY YEAMAN 1858 HULL - PAMELA LYNDOE 10/30/03
Re: Willoughby Yeamans dau Sir John Yeamans 1700 - Edward Bayley 3/13/03
Sir John Yeamans - Glenys Simmons Gerlach 1/29/03
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 THOMAS BOON Family Genealogy - The South Carolina Colony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In October 1665, Sir John Yeamans and a group of colonists established a colony in the area now know as Cape Fear.
Yeamans, however, spent only a short time there before returning to his home in Barbados.
Sir John Yeamans, a Barbadian, a former Carolina colonist, and a powerful friend of the Proprietors, held a blank warrant for the Governorship of the Carolina Colony.
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 Foster
Margaret Foster was the daughter of Reverend John Foster and Margaret Gibbes or Gibbs of Barbados.
Sir John Yeamans and there is debate as to whether the daughter, Margaret, was the illegitimate daughter of John Yeamans or the posthumous daughter of Benjamin Berringer.
  In this Bio it states:  “Among the immigrants from Barbadoes to Charleston was James Moore, who married the daughter of Sir John Yeamans, Governor of Carolina.”  It is believed that his wife was Margaret Berringer the stepdaughter, not the daughter, of Sir John Yeamans.
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 Graceland U vs William Woods U (feb 21, 2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Walks - butler; baker; yeamans; yates; john b; quancy; mcbride; mumper; john a; john f; yates b.
john b walked; yates advanced to second on an error by c.
john b struck out looking; yates advanced to second; yates b advanced to third on a wild pitch.
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 Caribbean Genealogy - Antigua Film Project - Page 6
ROBERT LOE of Parish of St. John, Capisterre in the island of St. Christopher, planter.
JOHN and JOSEPH TAYLOR and LAMBERT HOOKE their attorney; JOHN DUNN; JAMES HOPKINS foreman; THOMAS ROWLAND, ROBERT HANVILL, CHARLES ROWLAND, ROBERT WEBB, CLEOPHAS BAKER, JOSEPH PHIPPS, ROBERT WATTS, JAMES THOMAS, JOHN LYNCH, PETER BROTHERSON, THOMAS BUNCOMBE all elected and sworn.
In reply to a petition from GOVERNOR COLONEL JOHN HART (he originally complained that GOV. MATHEW had repealed this account), agreeing a sum of £2000 whilst he continues as Governor.
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(1710-1785), son of John and Elizabeth Greenough, and brother of William and John, married Martha Clarke in 1734, daughter of William and Mary (Bronsdon) Clarke.
For a while an active Whig, he served as a justice of the peace (1756), and in 1768 served with John Hancock on a committee to enforce the pre-revolutionary embargo.
(1734-1791), son of John and Abigail (Phillips) Erving, was graduated from Harvard College with the class of 1753.
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 Greene, Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America. App. B
Royal commission to John Harvey, governor, and to the council of Virginia: Rymer, Fo=edera, xviii.
Royal commission to John Harvey, governor, and to the council of Virginia: Rymer, Fœdera, xx.
Royal commission to John Curt [or Cutts], president, and to the council of New Hampshire: New Hampshire Provincial Papers, i.
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