HAYMAN: Flourished 1620 (p223. Prince's 'Worthies of Devon') Mr Robert Hayman, probably of Bideford. Mercantile family. Governor of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland c.1620. Later settled in Guiana. Writer and translator. xxxx HAYMAN, ROBERT, poet, colonizer, governor of Bristol's colony in Newfoundland; baptized 14 Aug. 1575, son of Nicholas Hayman and Alice Gaverocke; m. 21 May 1604 Grace Spicer at Exeter; d. Nov. 1629 in Guiana where he was buried. Hayman spent his early life in Totnes, Devon, where his father, a merchant, was prominent. by Gillian Cell http://www.biographi.ca/EN/Results.asp xxxx [TC Note- Was John Prince wrong about Robert Hayman's Bideford origins? He said probably of Bideford! Gillian Cell is more accurate when she says Wolborough and Newton Abbot. Is there a close family relationship with the Hayman/Hamond of Bideford?]