- GB-2014-WSA-18802
- Person
- ca. 1714-1778
YONGE, HENRY, brother of Philip Yonge (adm. 1718, qv); b.; adm. (aged 12) Feb 1726/7; in under school list 1728; Surveyor in South Carolina, North America 1743; Assistant Surveyor, Georgia 29 Mar 1749, Member of Council and Joint Surveyor-Gen., 6 Aug 1754, Surveyor-Gen., Dec 1756; member, House of Assembly, Georgia, for South Sea Islands Jan 1575, Christ Church Jan 1761, Vernonberg 1763; granted 5000 acres in Christ Church as a reward for his services as Surveyor-Gen., 14 Mar 1770; Treasurer of Council, Georgia 2 Jul 1771; supported the British government on the outbreak of the American Revolution, and was attainted and banished 1777; on his passage to the Bahamas he was captured by an English privateer and landed at St Augustin, Florida; m. 1st, Elizabeth, dau. of William Bellinger, South Carolina; m. 2nd, 1767 Mary Ann, dau. of Edward Stedman, Aston Munslow, Shropshire; m. 3rd, 14 Sep 1774 Christiana, dau. of James Bullough, Georgia; d. at St. Augustin, Florida May 1778. [Perhaps bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden, London 28 Aug 1712, son of Francis Young (sic), and Elizabeth --- ]