An American Family History

Titus Yerkes was born in 1731 in the Manor of Moreland which is now Moreland Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.. His parents were Herman Yerkes and Elizabeth Watts.

He was a farmer and a miller. He owned a farm of seventy acres located in what is now Terwood in Moreland Township. He was a member of Union Library Company of Hatboro.

He married Margaret Paul. Their children were Jonathan Yerkes (1759) and Titus Yerkes (1762).

Titus died in 1762 in Moreland. After he died, Margaret married John Nesmit. Margaret died on January 16, 1823.

Chronicle of the Yerkes Family by Josiah Granville Leach published by Printed for private circulation by J.B. Lippincott, 1904

Titus Yerkes (Herman2, Anthony1), eighth son and tenth and youngest child of Herman Yerkes by his wife Elizabeth Watts, was born in the Manor of Moreland, Montgomery (formerly Philadelphia) County, Pennsylvania, circa 1731; died there in 1762, and letters of administration on his estate were granted, 13 October of that year, unto his widow, Margaret Yerkes.

He was a farmer and miller, and owned a farm of seventy acres, since known as the "Factory Farm," located in what is now Terwood, in Moreland Township. Two streams met upon the farm, the united water- power of which was utilized by Titus Yerkes to turn his saw-mill.

He married, about 1757, Margaret Paul, who was no doubt a descendant of Joseph Paul, the founder of the well-known Paul family of Philadelphia. After the death of Mr. Yerkes she married, as second husband (license issued 4 January, 1764), John Nesmith, a miller of Moreland, and she died 16. January, 1823, in the eighty-eighth year of her age.

On 17 September, 1764, a few months after her second marriage, as the administratrix of Mr. Yerkes's estate, she presented a petition to the Orphans' Court of Philadelphia County for leave to sell the plantation and saw-mill of her late husband. Mr. Yerkes was a member of the Union Library Company of Hatboro.

Children of Titus8 and Margaret (Paul) Yerkes; born in Moreland:
93. Jonathan Yerkes', born 8 December, 1759; died 27 March, 1835; married Elizabeth Jarrett.

94. Titus Yerkes', born 15 November, 1762; died 15 June, 1846; married Mary Streper.