John Yates^[1]

1595 - 1648  (53 years)

• Name	John Yates
  Birth	1595	Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1624	, Elizabeth City, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Death	15 Jun 1648	Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I24585	Master
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2015

  
  

  Family	Joane Gaither,   b. 1599, Lyford, Berkshire, England d. 15 Oct 1666, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age 67 years)
  Children	+ 1. Sarah Meador,   b. 1600, , , , England d. 1670, , , Virginia, USA (Age 70 years)  [Father: Natural]
  Family ID	F6388	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2015

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1595 - Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England Residence - 1624 - , Elizabeth City, Virginia, USA Death - 15 Jun 1648 - Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  John Yates – b:)1590, Nottinghamshire, England; d:1648 in Norfolk County, Virginia, was a ship’s carpenter – and planter. Joane Gaither – b: 1620 (no idea where);d: 1664 in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia. John Yates ( 1595 – 1648) George Cabell Greer's compilation Early Virginia Immigrates 1623 -1 1666 states that John Yates immigrated to Virginia probably in 1635 by William Barber, a mariner of Charles City Company. In 1636 he paid the passage of Joane, his wife and Richard and Mary Yates. It is possible they were his children. In 1638 he paid for transport of Jone Yates to Lower New Norfolk Co. Virginia. Movements within Virginia were also listed as "transports" the same as movements to Virginia The Complete book of Emigrants b 1607-1660 by Peter Wilson Coldham lists three 1635 transports of a John Yates. The one by Barber mentioned above adds that John Yates was 20 years old. There is another dated June 10, 1635 where a John Yates, age 48 went from London to Bermuda on the True Love of London, Mr. Robert Dennis. As our John Yates of Virginia paid for a number of passages in 1636 he may have been an older man with an established family. The 20 year old John may have been the son of the 48 year old John though there is no proof of that. John was an active leader in the community. He was listed as a Church warden of "ye pish of Elizabeth River" in 1642. This is from Lower Norfolk county Libraries, Vol. 1 page 145. John died in 1648 in Virginia. Lower Norfolk County Libraries, Volume 1, page 104, it was noted that he had owned two bibles and other old books valued at 220 pounds. The list was an inventory of all books of Lower Norfolk county. Therefore, John Yates was an educated man, able to read. The inventory of his Norfolk County estate is also noted in Virginia Wills and Administrations by Clayton Torrence. As is the will of Joane Yates in 1666. The death of Joane Yates in 1666 is also in The Virginia Genealogist 1966 in an article called Creekmore Notes compiled by Mabel H. Thornton and Elizabeth B. Wingo.

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=82294308&pid=148 [S36] Jackson, Ron V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp., Virginia, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.).