Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY AND IMMEDIATE FAMILY. This chapter was written by Hon. George H. Yeaman. The additions of the Author appear in brackets. E earliest allusion I have seen to the name Yeaman, was many years ago in a list of early Scotch poets, where Robert Yeaman was mentioned, I think, as of the 14th or 15th century. As I never heard of him before or since, I infer that he was neither a Walter Scott nor a Robert Burns. I am informed that the name appears in England and Scotland to this day. I saw a notice of the election of George Yeaman to the House of Commons by a constituency in the North of England, nearly forty years ago. John Yeaman, mayor of one of the smaller cities of England was hanged by the Roundheads for adhering to Charles I. His son, John Yeaman, after the Restoration, was knighted by Charles II, and sent out as governor of the Carolinas, in early colonial days. The name also appears officially in the history of the English West India Islands, and in the colonial history of Massachusetts, John Yeaman was a prominent, influential and public spirited citizen of that colony. Whether Moses Yeaman, our remotest known ancestor, was related to any of these, and if so, in what degree, has not been ascertained. He seems to be heard of first on Long Island. In New Jersey he married Miss Clark, before the Revolution. She was a neice of Abraham Clark, one of the "signers" from that state. From New Jersey the family moved (just when I do not know) to Southwestern Pennsylvania, then called the "Red Stone Country." There Samuel Court- land Yeaman, son of Moses Yeaman, married a Miss Minor, a descendant of General Otho Williams of the Revolutionary War. There the oldest son of that marriage, Stephen Minor Yeaman, was born in 1799' He once told me that his earliest rec...