HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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3. Rebecca, born 7 mo. 27, 1710, never 

 married. 



4. Sarah, bom 7 mo. 30, 1712, married 

 (first) Benjamin Canby, (second) David 

 Kinsey. 



5. Joyce, born 10 mo. 3, 1714, never 

 married. 



6. William, born 3 mo. 25, 1716, died 

 8 mo. 3, 1774. 



7. Hannali, born 11 mo. 13, 1718-19, 

 never married. 



8. Thomas, born 11 mo. i, 1720-1, died 

 3 mo. 12, 1803, married Mary Field. 

 Entered military service of the Province 

 and was disowned by Friends therefore 

 in 1756. 



9. Samuel, born 4 mo. 16, 1723, died 

 8 mo. 12, 1726. 



10. Samuel, born 7 mo. 13, 1729, died 

 1759. married Jane. 



Thomas Yeardley was returned as a 

 member of the Provincial Assembly in 

 1715 and again in 1722. He was commis- 

 sioned a justice of the several courts of 

 Bucks county, May 12, 1725, and contin- 

 ued to serve as such until 1741. He was 

 one of the most prominent and active 

 of the judges, being present at nearly 

 every sitting of the court. He became 

 a very large land holder, acquiring in 

 1726 five hundre(| acres adjoining Pros- 

 pect Farm, and in T733 a tract of six- 

 hundred acres in Newtown township. 

 He also acquired title to the Solebury 

 Mills, erected by Robert Heath in 1707. 

 He died in 1756. He devised his Make- 

 field lands to his sons William an'd 

 Thomas, and his Solebury property to 

 his son Samuel. 



William Yardley, born 3 mo. 25, 1716, 

 married 4 mo. 20, 1748, Ann Budd, of 

 New Jersey, and had: Ann, born 4 mo. 

 10, 1749, married Abraham Warner. 

 Sarah, born 2 mo. 17, 1751, married 

 Timothy Taylor. Margaretta, born 12 

 mo. 6, 1752, married Stacy Potts, of 

 Trenton, New Jersey. Anna (Budd) 

 Yardley died 1753, and William married, 

 3 mo. 31, 1756. Sarah, daughter of Mah- 

 lon and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride. Mah- 

 lon Kirkbride was the son of Joseph, 

 before mentioned, by his second wife, 

 Sarah, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca 

 (Ely) Stacy, who were married at Cinder 

 Hill, near Mansfield. Yorkshire, Eng- 

 land, in 1668, and emigrated to Nevv 

 Jersey in 1676. Mahlon Stacy was the 

 first settler at the present site of Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey, where he built a mill 

 which was the sole resources for the 

 farmers on the Pennsylvania side of the 

 Delaware for many years. Mahlon Stacy 

 was a prominent official of the Prov- 

 ince of West Jersey, while Joseph Kirk- 

 bride, his son Mahlon, John Sotcher, 

 father of Mary Kirkbride, and Penn's 

 steward at Pennsbury, and William 

 Biles, all ancestors of the subject of this 

 sketch, were all members of Colonial 

 Assembly and justices of the court at 

 different times. The children of Will- 



iam Yardley and his second wife Sarah 

 Kirkbride were: 



Mary, born i mo. 27, 1757, married 

 Jonathan Woolston. 



Hannham, born 3 mo. 19, 1758, mar-- 

 ried 1779- John Stapler. 



Achsah, born 2 mo. 17, 1760, married 

 1794, Thomas Stapler. 



Letitia. born 7 mo. 12, 1762, married 

 1782. Jonathan Willis, of Philadelphia. 



Thomas, born 10 mo. 2, 1763, married 

 1785, Susanna Brown. 



Mahlon, born 7 mo. 17, 1765, married 

 1787, Elizabeth Brown. 



Samuel, born 2 mo. 28, 1767, died in 

 infancy. 



William, born 6 mo. 8, 1769, married 

 1793, Elizabeth Field. 



Joseph, born 3 mo. 19, 1771, married 

 1798, Sarah Field. 



Sarah (Kirkbride) Yardley, died i mo. 

 21, 1783. 



William Yardley, served as sheriff of 

 Bucks county from October 4. 1752, to 

 October 4, 1755; and as justice of the- 

 courts of Bucks county December 7, 



1764, to 1770. He died 8 mo. 3, 1774. 

 Mahlon, son of William and Sarah 



(Kirkbride) Yardley, born 7 mo. 17, 



1765, married 4 mo. 26, 1787, Elizabeth, 

 daughter of John and Ann (Field) 

 Brown, of Falls township. (Benjamin 

 Field, father of Ann Brown, was a mem- 

 ber of Provincial Assembly 1738-45.) The 

 children of Mahlon and Elizabeth 

 (Brown) Yardley, were: 



Sarah, born 4 mo. 16, 1788, married 

 1813, Joseph Paul. 



Ann. born 2 mo. 6, 1790, married 1812, 

 Jesse Lloyd. 



Achsah, born 9 mo. i, 1792, married 

 1834, Richard Janney. 



John, born 12 mo. i, 1794, married' 

 1823, Frances Hapenny, 1841, Anna Van 

 Horn. 



Hannah, born 4 mo. 25, 1797, married 

 1819, Samuel Buckman. 



Robert, born i mo. 18, 1799, married 

 1829, Ellen Field. 



Charles, born 8 mo. 4, 1802, married 

 Anna Warner. 



Elizabeth, born 7 mo. 21, 1807, married 

 1831. Mahlon B. Linton. 



Elizabeth (Brown) Yardley, died i 

 mo. 22. 1824. 



Mahlon Yardley died in Makefield, 

 II mo. 17, 1829. 



John, son of Mahlon and Sarah (Kirk- 

 bride) Yardley, born 12 mo. i, 1794. 

 married, i mo. 23, 1823, Frances Hap- 

 penny. Their children were: Mahlon, 

 born 2 mo. 4, 1824, married 12 mo. 11, 

 1850, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen 

 Brock. Strickland, born 10 mo. t8, 1826. 

 married Martha Johnson. Franklin, 

 born 6 mo. 26. 1830, died in infancy, 

 John Yardley, married (second) Anna" 

 Van Horn, 6 mo. 16, 1841; their children 

 were: Fannie, born 12 mo. 10. 1S44. Hon. 

 Robert M., born 10 mo. 9, 1850, member 

 of congress, Seventh District. Mary 



