This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Yate, Yates, Roper, Collington, Colleton, Seaborne Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kgDBAEB/715 Message Board Post: Captain William ROPER of Accomack, received a grant for 150 acres at Old Plantation Creek, in Accomack, on 06 Sep 1636 for the transportation of three persons: Himself, William YATES, and George COLLINGTON (COLLETON). Given the identities of the persons shown on the Patent, this WIlliam YATES seems almost certainly to be of the family of Francis YATES, of Lyford, Berkshire. Bear in mind that it was at the home of Francis YATES (then imprisoned) that jesuit priest Edmund CAMPION was discovered and betrayed fifty-five years earlier on Sunday, 16 July 1581. Amongst the residents of Lyford Grange then in residence was the Catholic priest Father John COLLINGTON/COLLETON. CAMPION was betrayed by George ELLIOTT a former steward of Mr. ROPER, of Orpington, Kent, who used his previous employment by the ROPERs and acquaintance with the YATE's family's ccok (who had apparently known ELLIOTT while in the employ of the ROPERs) as a basis for inclusion in the secret and forbidden Mass conducted by CAMPION at the YATES residence. Here we find the same families allied in an adventure to America. For details of the capture of Edmund CAMPION see http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hadland/tvp/tvp8.htm and/or http://www.cin.org/campcapt.html . For details regarding Captain William ROPER's Patent, see: http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/GetLONN.pl?first=375&last=&g_p=P1&collection=LO Patent Or you can search for it with this key reference information: William ROPER Patent Dated 06 SEP 1636 Land Office Patents No. 1, 1623-1643 (v.1 & 2), p. 375 (Reel 1) "150 acres a Small Neck of land lying between the land of John Dennis and the land of Henry Charlton." http://ajax.lva.lib.va.us/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas30&local_base=CLAS30 There are three YATES Patents the same year -- those to a John YATES -- for land on the Elizabeth River on 04 May 1636 for 200 acres, on 04 May 1636 for 150 acres and on 24 Nov 1636 for 150 acres. There are a variety of other early Virginia Patents to Johanna / Joane YATES (1652, 1661), James YATES (1654, 1657, 1668, 1687) and Richard YATES (1664, 1667). These are mostly on tributaries of the Eliizabeth River and/or in Nansemond County, but there are also a couple of grants on the Rappahanock. John YATES' Virginia Patent of 04 May 1636 was in consideration of the transportation of: Mary YATES, Nicholas SEABORNE, John SEABORNE, Richard KNIGHT The second John YATES Patent of 04 May 1636 was for the transportation of: William WHEELER, tho LEAGEN??, Rich? WEST John YATES' Patent of 24 Nov 1636 was in consideration of the transportation of: John YATES, Joane YATES, Richard YATES John YATES' transportation of Nicholas SEABORNE and John SEABORNE is of enormous significance as a clue to the identity of Captain William ROPER. For some years, I have believed that the single best English candidate explaining Captain WIlliam ROPER is the William ROPER born to Christopher ROPER, 2nd Baron, Teynham, of Kent, and Katherine SEABORNE. It may also be of interest to ROPER family historians that the names YATES, ROPER, COLLINGTON, and SEABORNE reappear together in the subsequent generation at All Hallowes Parish, South River, Anne Arundel, Maryland. And YATES is also a name found on the Patent of my ancestor John ROPER, whose 1714 Patent for the plantation on the Chickahominy in Charles City County, was for the transportation of persons to include Elizabeth YATES. ROPERs from the North Carolina lines will no doubt recognize the YATES name as that of a family with whom the ROPERs intermarried during the Revolutionary period. But by that time the ROPER and YATES families seemed to have already been allied -- as Catholic recusants and early Colonists of Virginia and Maryland -- for two hundred years! I would suggest that all ROPER family historians very carefully review their records in consideration of these findings regarding the YATES and ROPER family alliance!