Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-11-22
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Something Of the History Of This Famous
virginia Plantation.
lFor the DIspatch.I


Floyerfin. Hundred was Sir George
Yeardley's plantation. In the old county
OF Cherries CITY and present Prince George,
on tho south side Of James river, on the
west side OF Wards creek. Fort Powhatan
OF the late unpleasantfess was On this pro.
pertv.) II was represented IN the nrst
Z General Assembly conyented at James
City, in Virginia, July 80. 1912 by hn-
signe Ednund Rossingham tieardleys
nephew and Mr.. John Jefferson IRON
whom tia said Thomas Jefferson descend
edl AZ the great massacre Of March ~;
169l<. tho following persons were kilieu
there by the Enthusiastically John
Philips. Thomas Neesop, John Bradfofo'
Robert Taylor Samuel Jarret. and Ellza-
~ IA 4 court held at james City the 18th
November. 1927, tho Lady Temperance
YOardley, came and did fully, and aoso-
luteiy confrme as much as Ia he, 10y; t me
conveyance made By her tdt husoano' or
George Yeardley, Knit, ate uovernoi' ee-
ceased unto Abraham Persey, esq, Ior
the lands of Flowsrdieu Hundred, Delng
one thousand acres. and of Weanoake On
the opposite side Of the water, being %'zOo
MIR Abraham Peirsey, cspo-fnarchaunt,
came n Virginia in 1916 on the Susan, the
6rst magazine ship. HIS daughters-Eliza-
beth. aged fifteen, and Mary, aged eleven
came in the Southampton IN 1923. Inc
name of his first wife is not known 70 me;
He married secondly Frances. widoW Oh
Nathaniel West, Esq, brother TO ihosna .
west. Lord de la War;. Percy, Persey,
peirssy. &C., AZ his name is ,vafiously
snelied. was Burgess In 1912 and 2 mem
her Of the Council 1894 to 1923 and after.
His daughter. Elizabeth Persey. mar
red FIRST Captain Richard Stephens,
Of the Council, who killed George
Harrison IN duel u 1874; ana
secondly Governor. Sir John Harvey
About 1895 Harvey knocked ont SEVERN
of Stephens's teeth with cudJel,, pne
Stephens's widow probably avenged the
biow in due time. The second daughter
Mary Persey. married Thomas Hill; Cap
tain Abraham persey himself died some
time before March IS, 1884, leaving his
s.;dovv soie exeoutrix. "My well-beloved
friends. Mr.. Grevill Pooly MINISTER and
Mr., Richard Kingsmill, OF James Citty
island, gentlemen, 70 be my overseers L. e,
of his will in Virginia" His estate was
10 be sold for q division, but DO not Know
who bought Flowerdieu Hundred. Inc
ca,,y of hls will. still preserved, is en-
dorSsd, Vera Copia, Ben. harfys0ii' OA'
Samuel Stephens, Elizabeth Percy's son
nv her first husband, Captain Richard
Sfenhens. married Frances Culpeper and
died a %. bis widow, Frances, married
secondly Sir William Berkeley and thirdly
Colonel Philip Ludwell. She is well
known in our histories as Lady Berke-
The spelling Of the old clerks is so un;;
certain that | cannot say "fof certain ;,
what the correct original name was. l
find ii spelled flowerdieu" during
I6l0-'29, Flowerdew in 1880; Blowerdewe,
1882; Flowsrdue, 1888; Flower de Hundred
in 1870, etc., etc.
l do not find any person OF the name
among the early emigrants, but there may
have been, rs the lists remaining are not
complete. have an idea that it may have
been named for Yeardley's wife. whose
maiden name is unknown. i ind the
name occasionally about London, and
1.-THE worshipfull Mr.. Edward Flewerdew,
Esquyer,n of Hetherset, in the county OF
Norfolk, England, (John Rolfe's county,
was q sergeant-at-law. and one or the
barons of the Exchequer in 1879.
George Flower cam5 to Virginia in 1917,
INIT died within few months. Thomas
Flower, aged twenty-five, came IN 1923 IN
the George, but the plantation was named
more than four years before his arrival.
In The massacre Of March ~, 1871. there
was killed lat Weynoack Of Sir George
Yeardley, his people, John Flores" and
have an idea that this John Flores fur
nishes kew to the original name; that he
was in some way related to or connected
with Yeardley (or rather his wife), who
was, it seems, the first proprietor OF the
nlantation. ALEXANDRA Brown.