John Yates, Tettershall

John Yates, Tettershall

Male 1612 - 1653  (41 years)

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  • Name John Yates 
    Suffix Tettershall 
    Birth 10 Jan 1612  Lyford, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 14 Sep 1653  Lower Norfolk, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Age 41 years 
    Person ID I11798  Base Tree
    Last Modified 25 Oct 2024 

    Father Thomas Yates,   b. 1570, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Jul 1659, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years) 
    Mother Dorothy Stephens,   b. Jan 1582, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Feb 1643, Lyford, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 61 years) 
    Marriage 26 Oct 1608  Chisledon, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5698  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mary Elizabeth Tettershall,   b. 22 Jun 1613, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1658, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years) 
    Marriage 13 Jul 1633  England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. John Yates, Jr Esq,   b. 1634, Lyford, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jan 1671, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years)
     2. George1 Yates,   b. 1639, Ufton Court, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jun 1691, Anne Arundel, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)
     3. Jasper George Yates,   b. 1640, Blackburn, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Jane Yates,   b. 1645   d. 12 Sep 1716 (Age 71 years)
     5. Robert Yates, JP,   b. Abt 1654, Lyford, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Dec 1713, Charles, Maryland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 59 years)
     6. Frances Yates
     7. Thomas Yates
     8. Elizabeth Yates
    Family ID F4914  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Elizabeth Perrin 
    Marriage 1640 
    Family ID F5697  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • The son John was born in Lyford, England in 1611. He married Mary Elizabeth Tattershall in 1633.

      He went to colonial America where he married Elizabeth Perrin in Virginia in 1640.

      He was the father of the following children: John, Frances, George Joseph I, Thomas, and Elizabeth.


      The true John Yates ( The immigrant ); Passengers on Ship America from London England to Virginia 1635 23rd June, 1635. The under-written names are to be transported to Virginea imbarqued in the America. Willm Barker Mr. pr. cert: from the Minister of the Towne of Bravesend of their conformity to the orders & disiplin of the church of England. First Name ; Surname ;Age Richard Sadd 23 Thomas Wakefield 17 Thomas Bennett 22 Steaven Read 24 Willm Sambridge 27 Henry Barker 18 James Foster 21 Thomas Talbolt 20 Richard Young 31 Robert Thomas 20 John Farepoynt 20 Robert Askyn 22 Samuel Awde 24 Miles Fletcher 27 William Evans 28 Lawrence Farebern 23 Matthew Robinson 24 Isack Bull 27 Phillipp Remington 28 Radulph Srpagmy 37 George Chandler 29 Richard Hersey 22 John Robinson 32 Edmond Chipps 19 Tho: Pritchard 32 Jonathan Bronsford 21 Willm Cowley 20 John Shaw 16 Richard Gummy 21 Bartholemew Holton 25 John White 21 Thomas Chappell 33 Hugh Fox 24 David Morris 32 Rowland Cotton 22 William Thomas 22 John Yates 20 Richard Wood 36 James Somers 22 David Bromley 15 Walter Brookes 15 Symon Richardson 23 Thomas Jno.son 19 Jo: Averie 20 John Croftes 20 Thomas Broughton 19 Benjamin Wragg 24 Henry Embrey 20 Robert Sabyn 40 George Brookes 35 Thomas Holland 34 Humfrey Belt 20 John Mace 20 Walter Jewell 19 Willm Bucland 19 Launcelot Jackson 18 John Williamson 12 Phillipp Parsons 10 Henry Parsons 14 Andrew Morgan 26 Willm Brookes 17 Richard Harrison 15 Thomas Pratt 17 John Ecles 16 Richard Miller 12 Robert Lamb 16 Thomas Boomer 13 George Dalmare 8 John Underwood 19 Willm Bernard 27 Charles Wallinger 24 Thomas Rymett 23 Ryce Hooe 36 John Carter 54 Elizabeth Remington 20 Katherin Hibbotts 20 Elizabeth Willis 18 Joan Jobe 18 Ann Nash 22 Elizabeth Phillipps 22 Dorothy Standich 22 Susan Death 22 Elizabeth Death 3 Alice Remington 26 Dorothy Baker 18 Elizabeth Baker 18 Sara Colebank 20 Mary Thurrogood 19

      John Yates (The Immigrant) on the ship America.

      From the notes of Capt. M. Lee Minnis USN (Ret) Now a Editor for Ancestry on roots web. A highly decorated, retired naval carrier and test pilot and aeronautical engineer, began writing history after a second career as a business executive. His other widely acclaimed book is the First Virginia Regiment of Foot, 1775-1783, the first such history of any Virginia unit in the American Revolution.

      IGI for Berkshire, ENG, has Thomas Yate as father of John Yate christened on 10 Jan 1612 at West Hanney.

      Immigated as John Yates in 1635, age 20, Virginia.

      The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1847-1961. About 17,000 names. Similar lists in Boyer, nos. 0702, 0714, 0717, 0720. Source Bibliography: TEPPER, MICHAEL, editor. Passengers to America: A Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists from "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register." Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977. 554p. Reprinted with new introduction and indexes, 1978. Repr. 1980, p. 89.

      Virginia Land Grant: John Yates, 300 Ac, Eliz City Co., 4 May 1836, p. 340. Being a neck of land upon the W. side of the Swd. br. of Eliz. Riv., bounded S. Wly. & N. Wly. upon the maine riv. & Wly. into the maine woods. trans. of 4 pers: Mary Yates, Nicholas Seaburne, John Seaburne, Richard Wright.

      SAAME: 150 acs. Same County, date & page. Being a neck of land upon the E. side of Eliz. Riv. Trans of 3 pers: William Wheeler, Tho. Leager, Grace West.
      (Cavaliers & Pioneers, Patent Book 1, Part 1, p, 38)

      (White, Jim. Richard Wells & Frances White, Virginia & Maryland Immigrants, 1635-1637. Jim White: Lulu Press, Inc, 2009, pp. 126-129, 184, 191-194)

      1651 LAND: Attempted to obtain some of the confiscated Lyford lands of his father but was denied as he was a recusant.

      Claimants on the Estate of John Yate, Recusant, Bucks; 14 Sept. 1653. Seymour Bowman, of Lincoln's Inn, petitions against the sequestration of an estate in Peasemore, co. Berks, and an annuity of 44l. out of lands in Stewkley and Radnage, co. Bucks, granted in jointure by John Yate to Eliz. Yate, now his widow, of whom petitioner purchased the same, but they are sequestered for recusancy of John Yate; he is now dead, and Eliz. Yate is not a recusant.

      22 Dec. Claim disallowed, because though the 900L. purchase money was proffered by Bowman for the land, it was returned to him.

      11 April 1654. He begs the hearing of further evidence.

      5 July. Claim allowed, and sequestration discharged in cos. Berks and Bucks.

      17 Oct. Allowed arrears from the date of his petition.

      29 May 1655. Edith Chapin, widow, begs discharge, or reference to counsel of her claim to Stewkley, Fowlers, and Vaux manors, Bucks, purchased from John Yate, who held them from his late father, John Yate, sen., for whose recusancy 2/3 of the premises still remain sequestered.

      29 May. County Committee to certify and Reading to report; (Cases before the Committee: September 1653, Calendar, Committee for Compounding: Part 4 (1892), pp. 3136-3146. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=59795&strquery="john yate.)

      1653 COURT: Lower Norfolk County, 15 Dec. "Nicholas Seaborne aged about thirty and Nyne yeres sworn and Ex'sied this 15th day of December 1653. Saith that in August last was Seaventeene Yeres since (1636), this Depon't left a boate at Mr. cages his house for the use of Leif't B-rkelett this Depon't beinge at that tyme servsnt to John Yates shippwright the marke of Nicholas X Seaborne." Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Vol. III, Lower Norfolk County, 1651-1654, p. 54.

      1654 WILL: Not listed in his father's will and probably deceased.

      John Yates, 150 acres, 24 Nov 1636, p. 399. Being a neck of land upon the E.side of Eliz. Riv., the S. br. thereof, bounded S.W. to the woods. Trans. of himself, wife Joane Yates & Richard Yates. (Cavaliers & Pioneers, Patent Book 1, Part 1, p, 51)

      John Yates, 100 acres. Low. New Norf. Co., 10 Mar. 1638, p. 636. On the S. br. of Eliz. Riv., up a Cr. on the E. side of the river &c. 50 acs. due for the per. adv. of his son Richard Yates & 50 acs. for trans. of 1 servt: John Merriday. Note: Renewed 20 Feb. 1643 & 150 acrs. added. Same acreage, Co., date & page. Due for his owne & the per. adv. of his wife Joane Yates. (Cavaliers & Pioneers, Patent Book 1, Part 1, p, 106)

      County Court of 15 Aug 1648. Administration granted Joane Yates widow on the estate of her late husband John Yates. (Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Court Records: Book "A" 1637-1646 and Book "B" 1646-1651/52, p. 76, ref. 82a, )

      Record at 6 Oct 1648, Wm: Berkeley Gov &c granting administration on the estate of John Yates, who died intestate, unto Joane Yates the widow & relict according to order of Lower Norfolk County Court dated 20 Aug 1648. Given at James Citty 31 Aug 1648. ref. 82a, (Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Court Records: Book "A" 1637-1646 and Book "B" 1646-1651/52, p. 79, ref. 87a, )

      Exhibited in Court by Joane Yates. An Inventory of the goods and Chattell & Cattell of John Yates late deceased taken the 13 Nov 1648 and appraysed by Tho, Sayer, Rich: Smith, James Warner & Jofn ffinch vizt in Tobacco. Accepted in Court 15 Nov 1648 for a total sum of L tob 19,751.(Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Court Records: Book "A" 1637-1646 and Book "B" 1646-1651/52, pp. 84-85)

      1653 COURT: Norfolk Co, VA, Record Book C, 15 ec, p. 64b, Nicholas Seaborne, aged abt 39, swore that Aug last it was 17 years since he left a boat at Mr. Cages house for the use of Leift. Barklett. He was then a servant to John Yates, shippwright.

      John A. Brayton, cp., Transcription of Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Records, Book C, 1651-1656, 2010, p. 64b.


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