this is taken from The Encyclopedia of Canada, Newfoundland supplement 1949 Hayman, Robert (d. 1631?), epigrammatist, was a native of Devonshire. At Exeter College, Oxford, he acquired some reputation as a poet and became a B.A. He succeeded John Mason (q.v.) as governor of Guy's colony, and in letters to the King he predicted failure of the colony unless large grants were forthcoming. After returning to England he published, in 1628, in one volume called Quodlibets, four books of translations, epigrams and verse which he had written at Harbour Grace. In 1628 he set out to settle a plantation in Guiana, and is thought to have died there in 1631. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Cole" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 8:53 PM Subject: [NFLD-LAB] Robert Hayman, Governor of a Newfoundland colony. > 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?] > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >