Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate Birth: 11 Sep 1705, Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
• Migration: 1748, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Migration: 1769, Springfield Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Notes:

The Youngest child of Francis Yarnall, Mordecai, was born September 11, 1705, and in conjunction with his brother Amos, received a warrant for 500 acres in Willistown township, patents for the same being issued January 29, 1738, ten years later, he removed to Philadelphia. He was a noted Minister of the Society of Friends and his descendants were all men and women of prominence in public affairs.

In 1769 he removed to his native Chester County, settling in Springfield where he died May 17, 1782. He was three times married, first in 1733 to Catherine Meredith whose death took place in 1741. August 8, 1745 he married Mary Roberts, daughter of Edward Roberts, May of Philadelphia from 1739 to 1740. Following the death of his second wife, he married March 3, 1768 Ann Maris, widow of Joseph Maris.

Mordecai married Roberts, Mary on 8 Jun 1745 in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. Mary was born in 1714 in Willistown, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 6 Oct 1763 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; was buried after 6 Oct 1763. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mordecai married Maris, Ann on 3 Mar 1768 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Ann was born in UNKNOWN; died in 1780; was buried in 1780. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mordecai married Meredith, Catherine in 1733 in Willistown Township, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. Catherine was born on 22 Sep 1712 in Radnor, Delaware, Pennsylvania, USA; died on 4 Aug 1741 in Pennsylvania, USA; was buried after 4 Aug 1741 in Pennsylvania, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]