Lt. Col. Benjamin Berringer

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From St. Nicholas Abbey - Owner's History Berringer, hailing from an influential aristocratic family and a member of the Barbados Council, came to Barbados in 1624.  He found success in Barbados as a planter and built the Jacobean great house in 1658 as a family home for his wife, Margaret, daughter of local Reverend John Foster, and their three children, Mary, Symon and John.

Yeamans, a Colonel in the Royalist Army in England, emigrated to Barbados in 1650.  He was also a member of the Barbados Council, and, a widower, supposedly competed with Berringer for Margaret's affections.

In January 1661, Benjamin and Margaret Berringer had a heated argument, compelling Berringer to leave the plantation for Speightstown, a busy seaport located on the West Coast of Barbados.  It is said that Yeamans arranged for a third party to poison his business partner and romantic rival during this visit; Berringer subsequently died in his friend Mr. Dickinson’s house.  Yeamans and Margaret were married in April that year, while Margaret was pregnant with Benjamin's fourth child, a daughter she would also call Margaret.  Upon their marriage the two plantations merged into one property named Yeamans Plantation.