Governor Sir George Yeardley - Grave Likely Found

Thanks for sharing this Ashley. Super interesting. The pre-refromation Catholic boxes are a mystery.
Very exciting.

Was just coming to share & y’all were here already !

“The story of Yeardley, whom most people have never heard of, has risen in importance recently because next summer marks the 400th anniversary of the famous assembly he convened.

It also marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival on U.S. soil of the first enslaved Africans, some of whom he purchased, according to historians.

Thus, he represents two of the chief veins in American history — representative government and slavery, which took root in the same summer, in the same place, in the person of the same man.”

“Raised in London, the son of a businessman tailor, he became a soldier — “truly bred in [the] university of warre,” a friend wrote.

As a young officer, it is said he came to Virginia with nothing but his sword.

But he was among the first of millions of Europeans to find his fortune here.“

George Yeardley is my 9th Great-Grandfather ... I may be able to answer a few questions about his burial if you do not have it.

First, i am currently a member of Ancestry and checking other places to see which one I would like to join - I am not currently a member of Geni

Jean Esposito
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