An American Family History

Chronicle of the Yerkes Family: With Notes on the Leech and Rutter Families by Josiah Granville Leach

Sarah Yerkes (Herman2, Anthony1), eldest daughter and third child of Herman Yerkes by his wife Elizabeth Watts, was born in the Manor of Moreland, Montgomery (formerly Philadelphia) County, Pennsylvania, 15 July, 1716, married Jacob Hufty, of Abington.

He died in the latter part of 1750, or in January, 1750-51, as on the 30th of that month letters of administration on his estate were granted at Philadelphia unto his widow, Sarah Hufty, "during the minority of the minor children," her brother, Anthony Yerkes, being one of the sureties on the bond filed.

She was living 30 April, 1752, when she joined with some of her brothers and a sister in conveying to their brother, Josiah Yerkes, land of which their father had died possessed, and she is styled in the conveyance "of Moreland, widow." On the back of the administration bond the names of the children appear as follows:
33. Elizabeth Hufty.
34. Mary Hufty.
35. John Hufty.
36. Jacob Hufty.

Elizabeth Yerkes (Harman, Herman, Anthony), eldest daughter and second child of Harman Yerkes by his wife Mary Stroud, was born (probably in the Manor of Moreland) 5 September, 1753; married, 14 April, 1770, John Hufty, who is thought to have been her cousin, and son of Jacob Hufty by his wife Sarah Yerkes. The marriage is recorded on the books of the First Baptist Church, Philadelphia, and on the printed list of marriages of that church the name is erroneously given as "Huffdale."

John Hufty lived upon lands of his wife's father, and afterwards occupied and farmed the plantation of her brother-in-law, Major Reading Howell, on the Street Road in Warminster Township, Bucks County, later removing with his family to Greene County, Pennsylvania, where he is said to have died. They are said to have had two daughters,—Phebe, given below, and one whose Christian name is unknown.