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An American Family History |
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Josiah Yerkes |
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"[L]iberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our Maker. But if we had not, our fathers have earned and bought it for us, at the expense of their ease, their estates, their pleasure, and their blood." -- John Adams, 1765 |
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Josiah Yerkes was born about 1751 in the Manor of Moorland. He was the son of Josiah Yerkes and Mary Walton. In 1793 when his father died, he received 30 pounds. He served as a a private in the American Revolution. He married Rachel Brooks Edwards on December 23, 1783. Rachel was born about 1855 in Pennsylvania. Josiah and Rachel's daughter was Elizabeth Yerkes Hogeland (1784). He died on December 2, 1791 in Pennsylvania |
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Chronicle of the Yerkes Family: With Notes on the Leech and Rutter Rutter Families
By Josiah Granville Leach
Published by Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott, 1904 |
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JOSIAH YERKES4 (Josiah8, Herman2, Anthony1), was a son of Josiah and Mary Yerkes, and was, doubtless, born in the Manor of Moreland, but the date of his birth or death has not been ascertained. He was a Revolutionary soldier, and he married, 23 December, 1783, Mrs. Rachel Edwards, whose maiden name was Brooks. Of this marriage only one child is known, and the fact that he had such child is obtained from "The Hogeland Family in America," page 226, where it is noted that " Elizabeth Yerkes, daughter of Josiah and Rachel (Brooks) Yerkes," married Joshua Hogeland. Mr. Yerkes is said to have died when the daughter Elizabeth was " only a few years old." It is possible that he went to reside with his daughter, and died at her home. |
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