Temperance Flowerdew



Determined to set the historical record straight, and clear her conscience, Temperance Flowerdew—the wife of Virginia's first two governors-puts quill to paper, recounting the hardships that nearly brought. In 1609, Temperance Flowerdew traveled to the New World aboard the Falcon in a convoy of ships destined for Jamestown. Nearly two months into the trip, the fleet encountered a hurricane. The flagship (Sea Venture) with new leaders for Jamestown was separated from the convoy. Months later, Temperance's ship limped into Jamestown. Temperance Flowerdew was born in the year 1576 in Norfolk, England, daughter of Anthony Flowerdew and Martha Stanley., they gave birth to 1 child. She died December 1628 in Jamestown, James.

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  • H. Gov. George Yeardley, Colonial Governor of Virginia1587 - 1627
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  2. Argoll Yeardley1617 - 1655
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  • H. Capt. Francis West, Deputy Governor of British Colony of Virginia1586 - Aft 1633/34
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NameTemperance Flowerdew
GenderFemale
Birth?Bef 1596England
Marriage1613Jamestown, Virginiato Gov. George Yeardley, Colonial Governor of Virginia
MarriageAft 1627Jamestown, Virginiato Capt. Francis West, Deputy Governor of British Colony of Virginia
Reference Number?Q7698306?


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Temperance Flowerdew, Lady Yeardley (1590 – 1628) was an early settler of the Jamestown Colony and a key member of the Flowerdew family, significant participants in the history of Jamestown. Temperance Flowerdew was wife of two Governors of Virginia, sister of another early colonist, aunt to a representative at the first General Assembly and ' (first cousin) to the Secretary to the Colony.

Flowerdew was one of the few survivors of the brutal winter of 1609–10, known as the 'Starving Time', which killed almost ninety percent of Jamestown's inhabitants. Later, upon the death of her second husband, George Yeardley, Flowerdew became one of the wealthiest women in Virginia.[1] Upon her death, the estate was transferred to her children despite the efforts of her third husband to claim it. She appears on the periphery of many historical events that occurred during the period.

Flowerdew was named one of the Virginia Women in History by the Library of Virginia in 2018.

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  • Temperance Flowerdew survived a hurricane at sea and ate rats for dinner, and she arrived in Jamestown in August 1609, just in time for the winter famine that followed. She lived through that.
  • (Yeardley's wife, Temperance Flowerdew, came from English gentry in the County of Norfolk.) 3 A ' hundred ' was historically a division of a shire or county. With a population of about 30, the plantation was economically successful with thousands of pounds of tobacco produced along with corn, fish and livestock.