Person:Thomas Youell (2)

Information on Thomas Youell

Thomas Youell made a deposition stating his age at 40 years old in 1655:

Depositions on record in Westmoreland show the following ages:

Thomas Youlle, aged 40 in 1655

Source: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/westmoreland/court/misc0002.txt

From "William & Mary's Quarterly",' page 41:

"Capt. Thomas Ewell or Yowell, b. in 1615, [?] m. Anne, daughter of Thomas Sturman, cooper. She married secondly John Hull, and died in 1670/72 [1671]. Capt. Ewell had 1, Capt. Thomas b. 1644) m. Anne, daughter of Col. Richard Lee; 2, Richard; 3, Anne.

From Clark S. Yowell's "Yowell's, A Genealogical Collection", page 33:

The first member of the Yowell family to migrate to the New World was Thomas Yowell, who, according to his deposition given on Kent Island, Maryland, May 20, 1640, was born in the parish of Wilbarson, Northamptonshire, England. No data is available on this parish, but we find recorded the marriage of Steven Ule, of Stowe, to Margaret Lewes on October 4, 1590. Also, in Castor Parish, June 5, 1592, is recorded the marriage of Jeremy Yowle and Joane Sergeant. "Further information derived from the aforementioned deposition is that Thomas Yowell was born in 1618 and arrived at Kent Island with William Claiborne in July, 1634. William Claiborne, of an ancient and honorable family in Westmoreland, England, was first in Virginia in 1621. He was the discoverer of Kent Island and founded a settlement there about 1631, the first settlement within the present bounds of Maryland. One authority states Thomas Yowell was brought into Virginia by William Claiborne, which would place his arrival in 1631, at the age of thirteen years. At any rate, he arrived first in Virginia, later going to Kent Island in company with Claiborne. Thus we find Thomas Yowell starting his career at an early age with the later Secretary of State of Virginia and one of the State's most noted characters. "A further perusal of the aforementioned deposition throws much light on condidtions on Kent Island at that time. It is herewith produced in part, as taken from the "Maryland Archives": "'20 May 1640. Thomas Youall de Insul Kent in Provincia de Maryland . . . . That att his (this deponents ) arrivall on the articulate Iland being in July 1634 there was great want of trucking stuffe and that the said Claiborne did provide a pinnace and boates, with men and things necessary in expectation of Trucke as this deponent believeth to goe a trading with the Indians....signed: The mark of THOMAS (x) YOUALL.'" "On September 7, 1640, William Medcalf and Thomas Yewell, of the Isle of Kent, ask the Maryland authorities for a confirmation to them of Mattux Neck, 'which they now hold by grant from Capt. William Clayburn, and Thomas Yewell asks 500 additional acres for services with Captain Clayburn.' On September 25, 1640, the Neck was laid out for them.' "On November 1, 1641, James Calther leased to Thomas Sturman, of the Isle of kent, cooper, and Thomas Uell of the same Isle and Province, Planter, a house and plantation in St. Maries Hundred. Thomas Yowell evidently took up his residence in St. Marys at that time, as we find him, April 3, 1643, appearing before the St. Marys Court as attorney in fact for John Smith of Kent Island. There also, two days later, he assumed all the debts of Steven Thomas (probably thereby saving a friend from debtors' prison). On June 14 of the same yar Thomas Yewell made oath that Capt. William Clayborne had made certain promises to Robert Cooper in his presence on Palmer's Island, which was probably the site of the aforementioned "services with Captain Clayborn." Further records in St. Marys reveals the suit of Thomas Uell against Mrs. Margaret Brent under date of November, 1649. "Within the next two months Thomas Youelle removed to Virginia, having established his residence in Northumberland County following the loss of Claiborne's cause in Maryland. A deposition given by Thomas Youelle on February 16, 1650, was read in a court in St. Marys in a case in which John Sturman was plaintiff. The deposition was attested before an officer in Northumberland County, Virginia. On January 10, 1651, William Hardwick, of Nominy, Virginia, gave a power of attorney to John Sturman of St. Marys, which was witnessed by Tho. Youell in Nominy. This portion of Northumberland was set off as Westmoreland County in July, 1653. John Sturman was a son of Thomas Turman (Sturman) and brother of Anne (Sturman) Yowell, wife of Thomas Yowell.