1670

Sir John Yeamans wrote to Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper from Barbados: “Sending 12 cedar planks as the first fruits of that glorious province (Carolina).”

Yeamans was well-known to the Carolina Lords Proprietors due to his success as a business man and landowner in Barbados. Yeamans looked down upon his new fellow English colonists as unexperienced. He was determined to use the Carolina venture as a means of elevating his statue and wealth in the New World.

Sir John Yeamans