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- Wife unknown. Died testate in Virginia in 1743. Names of other children unknown.
"George Yates III is supposed to have died intestate in Caroline County about 1743. On February 10 [18?], 1743/44, George Yates, who is identified as his minor son and orphan, selected William Conner as his guardian. No record has been found of the probation of his will in Caroling County, nor a record of the inventory of the personal estate being recorded at court.
"The fact of the record of only one child having been placed under guardianship would seem to indicate that the other children were of legal age. This supposition is proved later as a fact by the will of the testator's (George Yates III) grandson in 1788. It would seem to indicate that the wife of George Yates had predeceased him.
"The wife of George Yates III has been of considerable interest in this study. While several clues were developed, the lack of such specific instruments as deeds and wills prevented any definite proof. No references were found to a first name. It is possible, however, to approximate the date as well as whether the marriage occurred in Maryland or Virginia.
"The very significant will of George Yeats [son] of Michael, dated March 3, 1788, and admitted to probate in Culpeper Co., Va., on June 16, 1788, is perhaps the best instrument for speculation. In it, George Yeates of Michael, states,'Whereas my Grandfather George Yates, deceased, did in his lifetime make me a deed of gift for certain lands...in the County of Caroline....'
"As the death of George Yates III (grandfather to George Yates of Michael) is definitely placed by Court Record as 1743/44, it is therefore self-evident that George Yates of Michael was born in or prior to to the year 1743.
"It is also known that George Yates III was of middle age at his death with a minor son, George IV, between the ages of 14 and 18 years. Knowing that George Yates of Michael was born prior to or in 1743, and considering that his father was aged at least 22 years at the birth of the son, therefore, Michael Yates (the father) was born in or about the year 1722.
"These facts and circumstances would place the marriage of George Yates III about the year 1720.
"It is estimated that George Yates III was about 17 years of age at the time of his father's death in 1717. And it is not impossible to imagine that George Yates III left home almost immediately. A precocious lad of 17 or 18 years out on his one initiative, and therefore it is probable that George Yates III settled in Virginia at a date earlier than had been originally thought.
"In in 1730 [38?] when George Yates III conveyed land in Baltimore County, Maryland, no wife waived dower, which would indicate that he was a widower at that time.
"Circumstances place the Marriage of George Yates II about 1720 or 1721, and everything points to King William County, Virginia, as the place." -- Newmann, p. 11
"George Yates III, Son and heir of George Yate II and his wife, Rachael Warfield, was born at the parental dwelling-plantation, near Elk Ridge, then in the county of Baltimore, but now in Howard County. He is mentioned as the eldest son in the will of his father in 1717, all the children at that time being minors.
"This George Yate III is supposed to have been born about 1701, perhaps earlier. He did not dispose of his Maryland birthright until the year 1728.
"He settled in the Western part of King William County, Virginia, (later Caroline County) and it is known that the early Virginia home of George Yates was in the southeastern portion of present Caroline County. This George Yates was in Maryland in March 1729, and conveyed March 8, 1729 to John Warfield, of Anne Arundel County, a portion of Warfield's range, which had been granted, according to deed, to Rachel for 180 acres. The deed further stated that 'John Warfield was father to the John Warfield the grantee and party to the deed.' As the wording is somewhat ambiguous, it meant that John Warfield who bought the land from George Yeates was a son of John Warfield who patented the land jointly with Richard Warfield, the said son of John Warfield. The tract was situated on the Middle River.
"Thus George Yates disposed of the last piece of realty in Maryland and that which he had inherited through his mother, Rachael, who had been willed it by her father, Richard Warfield, Sr. This is the last reference made in Maryland records to George Yates III.
"Owing to the destruction of the Caroline County records, there are only two proved children of George Yates III." -- Newmann p. 13
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Taylor Family Genealogy
Abt 1701 - Abt 1743 (~ 42 years)
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