The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-09-21
F. L. WIS (Continued).

Alas! in the very beginning of this
sincere and illuminating adjustment OF
long mooted queston-upon which,
strange to say, some are disposed TO
cast contempt-we find Il serious diff
Guilty. The descendants of George
Ieardley and the descendants of John
Rclfe have locked horns. Hitherto
there seemed no question of John
Rolfe's descendants being the second
family of Virginia-next to head" so
TO speak--Thomas Savage being, with
out the least difficulty, at the top OF
the class. Even we ourselves felt quite
assured that George Yeardlcy was No
3, and that he came over about 1914
or thcreabouts. But il now appears
that Mr.. Yeardley, not yet Sir George
was also stranded on Bermudas with
Mr.. Rolfe. and came OH to Virginia a
year later in the Deliverance. Two
ships sailed from Bermudas. both con-
stricted during that waiting year,
one named Patience" and the other
"Dcliverance," and could ever names
he more suitable? The former en-
phasizes the spirit in which men and
women took that years sojourn upon
TO be. and the other Il glad cry of JOY
as they moved on. John Rolfe
was upon one of these ships and
George Yeardley was on one of them.
Upon which John Rolfe sailed is not
known. George Yeardley sailed on
the Deliverance. If John Rolfe was
not on the Deliverance and George
feardley was, and the Deliverance
poked its nose upon the jamestown
shore first. then George Yeardley was
the founder of the third family: but, If
both gentlemen were on the Deliver
ance. which of them started the third
family? The one. of course who first
touched land. which of course, will
never, never be known. Again, John
Rolfe might have been on the Patience,
and the Patience might have gotten
there just before the Deliverancc-then
John Rolfc would still be. as we
nounccd last Sunday, the founder OF
family No. g. But who can say
whether the Patience preceded the De-
liverance and if John Rolfe in truth
was aboard? Why" ask the descen-
dants of John Rolfe-hitherto head OF
family No. .. but suddenly confronted
with the claims OF John Proctor--is it
known upon which ship Mr.. Teard-
ley came? And why is it not known
upon which ship MIR. Rolfe came? Mr..
Yeardley lived until 1926. and in that
year census of the colontsts was
taken, and in this census printed in
that mighty volume known as "natten's
Emigrants we find the muster of Sir
George Yeardley. who arrived in the
Deliverance in 1910. SO we are up
against it. Rolfe. unfortunately. died
before this census was taken. and how
he came is not known. Which is the
third family. Rolfc or Yeardlcy? With
only the means of deciding within our
reach we cannot tell. 1t is not i'm
possible that some hidden manu-
script may reveal 1t. but quite i'm
probable. IT might be that forgot
ten paper will arise and cry, MIR. John
Rolfe leaped from the Patience and
stood upon the green shore at James
town one half hour before Mr.. George
Yeardley leaped from the Dcliverance,
or vice versa. In that case. this mo-
mentous question might be solved. We
do not expect to read that manuscript,
therefore we snail treat Mr.. Rolfc and
Mr.. Yeardlcy as Withstand oven then
we are not able to place them as Isaac
was able to place Jacob and Esau--and
we shall have TO list them thus; /,
Savage; .. Proctor; 3. Rolfe and
Yeardley, Place Sir George after Mr..
Rolfe merely because ''Y" comes after
And it is our opinion that 1t Is tho
best anybody can do. The descend
ants of Thomas Savage have the adj
vantage every way, for therc is tho
name-so Savage IL first; pure and sim
plc--"rcverent" as they say OF Alco-
and Ycardiey prospective tho
third famllies-but their descendants
are not descendants pure and simple
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS nobody bears tho
name. We hate to call them third
families diluted"--it does not sound
niee---but liz there some torn which,
will express Ghlgd families with none
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