YEAMANS, SIR JOHN
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(1605 -1676 ), born in England, was Governor of an unsuccessful colony called "Clarendon," founded in 1665 on Cape Fear River. He was Governor of South Carolina from 1671 to 1674, and introduced the first slaves into that colony in 1671.
By John Franklin Jameson
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