Jr. John Yates

Abt 1640 - 1731  (91 years)

• Name	John Yates
  Prefix	Jr.
  Birth	Abt 1640	Southampton, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
  Gender	Male
  Death	1731
  Person ID	I713	Master
  Last Modified	11 May 2012

  
  

  Father	John Yates, Esq,   b. Abt 1616, , , , England d. 1648, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age 32 years)
  Mother	Joan Jobe,   b. Abt 1617, , , , England d. Aft 1664, Norfolk, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA (Age > 48 years)
  Family ID	F205	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	+ 1. John Yates, III,   b. Jan 1694, , Anne Arundel, Maryland, USA d. 18 Sep 1731, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA (Age 37 years)
  Family ID	F204	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1640 - Southampton, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  1711: Plantation owner 1723: Justice and gentleman of Nansemond 1704 Rent Rolls of Va., Nansemond Co. as Yeats, Jno., 400 acres Known as John of Nansemond County, he was the founder of the Yeates Free Schools. He had two wives, our John Yates being the child of his second. Apparently the Johyn Yeates who received 20 acres with William Edwards in the lower parish of Nansemond County, April 8, 1711. Could also be the John Yates who received 150 acres at Pig Point, upper parish of Nansemond County, December 23, 1714. From 1711 to 1723, he appears in the court records of the North Carolina Higher Court as owning land on Cuscopernung River, appraising an estate serving as juror and taking a deposition. He had 400 acres in Nansemond County in 1704. Called Mr. Yates on Cuscopernung River in court minutes of Chowan Pct., N.C., March 29, 1718. Figures in other early colonial records of Chowan Pct., where he is once described as a justice and gentleman of Nansemond in Virginia. Said to have died after 1723 and to have had two sons, William and Thomas, born about 1680. Thomas patented 240 acres in Chowan District, July 20, 1717. William patented 110 acres in Chowan Pct., obtained through forfeiture of John Paget, lapsed to Henry Bonner in 1730 (?). Also patented 520 acres in Bear Swamp, ajoining lands of Samuel Patchett. John Yeates and William Edwards, 20 acres in the lower parish of Nansemond County, April 8, 1711, No. 10, p. 8. From Bishop Meade: John Yates, 150 acres at Pig Point, upper parish of Nansemond County, Dec. 23, 1714, No. 10, p. 231.John Yates, 356 acres in 1735. John Yates was educated in England and lived at the Lower Parish Farm in Nansemond. He was a member of the vestry at Glebe Church and a justice at the court. In his will, he names books, lands, clothing, slaves and friends, no relatives.