Jane (Heath) Yardley (abt. 1638 - 1691)

Born about 1638 in Leek, Staffordshire, England

Wife of William Yardley — married 1660 in Leek, Staffordshire, England

Descendants

Died 1691 at about age 53 in Lower Makefield, Bucks, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Jane (Heath) Yardley was born in England.

Jane was a Friend (Quaker)

Jane (Heath) Yardley migrated from England to Pennsylvania.

The pioneer emigrant of the family was William Yeardley, who with wife Jane and three sons, Enoch, William and Thomas and a servant Andrew Heath, emigrated from Ransclough, near Leake, in the county of Stafford, and arrived in the river Delaware in the good ship "Friends' Adventure," 7 mo. 29, 1682. ^[1][2]They located on five hundred acres of land purchased of William Penn 3 mo. 30, 1682, (just sixteen days after Penn received the grant of Pennsylvania from Charles II). This tract was located on the Delaware river, near the present site of the borough of Yardley, and was called "Prospect Farm." William Yardley was fifty years of age on his arrival in Bucks county. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and had been called to the ministry among them in his twenty-third year. He had traveled through different parts of Eng- land preaching the Gospel, and had suffered imprisonment and fines for his- faith. He became at once and continued to his death one of the most prominent men of the province. He was a member of the first Colonial Assembly in 1682, and again in 1683; member of Provincial Council in 1688-9; justice of the peace and of the courts of Bucks county, April 6, 1685, to January 2, 1689; sheriff, February 11, 1690, to April 29, 1693. He died 5 mo. 6, 1693, aged sixty- one years.

Name

Name: Jane /Heath/^[3]

Birth

Birth:

Date: 1658

Place: Leek, Staffordshire, England^[4]

Residence

1682

Philadelphia^[5]

Death

Death:

Date: 1691

Place: Lower Makefield, Bucks, Pennsylvania, USA^[6]

Marriage

Husband: William Yardley

Wife: Jane Heath

Child: William Yardley

Child: Mary Yardley

Child: Thomas Yardley

Marriage:

Date: 1660

Place: Leek, Staffordshire, England^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Gale Research, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s (Provo, UT, USA, The Generations Network, Inc., 2006), www.ancestry.com, Place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Year: 1682; Page Number: 223. Record for William Yardley. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pili354&h=3384045&indiv=try
2. ↑ A PARTIAL LIST OF THE FAMILIES WHO RESIDED IN BUCKS COUNTY, Pennsylvania, prior to 1687, with the Date of Their Arrival." In The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 9:3 (July 1885), pp. 223-233
3. ↑ Source: #S97 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
4. ↑ Source: #S97 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
5. ↑ Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1994 (Provo, UT, USA, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014), Ancestry.com, Record for William Yardley. http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=QuakerMeetMins&h=2033766&indiv=try
6. ↑ Source: #S97 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.
7. ↑ Source: #S97 Data: Text: Online publication - Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.

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