Enoch Yardley (abt. 1661 - abt. 1702)

Born about 1661 in Rushton Spencer, Staffordshire, England

Ancestors

Died about 1702 at about age 41 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Enoch was the first born son of William and Jane Yardley. He immigrated with his parents William and Jane Yardley , brothers William and Thomas and a servant (Andrew Heath) in 1682 on a ship called Friends' Adventure which arrived at what is now called borough of Yardly on the Delaware river. They settled on 500 acres that was called Prospect Farm, that Enoch's father purchased from William Penn in 1681 just 16 days after Penn received the grant of Pennsylvania from Charles II.

In 1697 Enoch married Mary Fletcher daughter of Robert Fletcher and with her had three children who all died very young Jane (1698-1698), Mary (abt 1699-1702), and (1702-1702). ^[1]

Enoch was a member of the Colonial Assembley in 1699.

Enoch died in 1702 (small pox epidemic that according to information on the town of Yardley took all of the family of William Yardley) ^[2]

Enoch Yardley was a William Penn fleet passenger.

Enoch Yardly is recognized as an ancestor approved for membership by the Welcome Society.

Sources

1. ↑ Genealogy of the Yardley family, 1402-1881 by Yardley, Thomas W., 1826-1900 published in 1881 Publisher Philadelphia : W. S. Schofield https://archive.org/details/genealogyofyardl1881yard p.15
2. ↑ Genealogy of the Yardley family, 1402-1881 by Yardley, Thomas W., 1826-1900 published in 1881 Publisher Philadelphia : W. S. Schofield https://archive.org/details/genealogyofyardl1881yard p.17

Ancestry Family Trees (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry.com, Database online. Record for William Yardley.[ http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=40078152299&indiv=try]

History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921 published in 1905 by the Lewis Publishing Co. https://archive.org/stream/historyofbucksco03davi#page/122/mode/2up/search/Yardley

Information on the Yardley Borough web page at http://yardleyboro.com/history.php