Display Patriot - P-325945 - Jonathan Paul YERKES

Jonathan Paul YERKES

SAR Patriot #: P-325945

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State of Service: PA      Qualifying Service: Private
DAR #: A129580

Birth: 05 Dec 1759 Moreland / Montgomery / PA
Death: 27 Mar 1835 Damascus Twp / Wayne / PA

Qualifying Service Description:

Private in Andrew Buskirk's 3rd Company, commanded by Colonel George Smith of the Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Militia (1786)


Additional References:
  1. Linn, John B. and William Hegle, Pennsylvania Archives Second Series, Volume XIII, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, State Printers, 1896, pg 248
  2. Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, Pennsylvania Archives Sixth Series, Volume I, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1906, pg 645

Spouse: Elizabeth Jarrett
Children: Jacob; Titus; Mary Ann; Hannah;
Members Who Share This Ancestor
Date Approved Society ACN SAR Member Info Lineage via Child View Application Detail
1996-03-11 MO 204146 David Frank Hayes (146088) Jacob   
1997-02-26 MO 202027 Edwin Frank Hayes (147810) Jacob   
1997-05-07 AZ 201385 Herbert Edwin Davis (148208) Jacob   
1997-11-06 MO 200930 Shawn Wesley Hayes (149166) Jacob   
2001-03-20 NJ 8635 Paul Nelson Gilbert (154653) Jacob   
2002-03-11 CO 12276 Fred Lewis Davis (157482) Jacob   
Burial:
Overlook Cemetery (C-0371724)
Location:
Damascus / Wayne / PA / USA
Find A Grave Cemetery #:
45721
Grave Plot #:
Grave GPS Coordinates:
n/a
Find A Grave Memorial #:
29811261
Marker Type:
vertical stone
SAR Grave Dedication Date:

Comments:
  • Upright stone that is contemporary with the death of the Patriot
  • Find-a-Grave memorial (https://www.Find-a-Grave/memorial/29811261/jonathan-paul-yerkes) has one photo of the headstone


Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

The cemetery is located southeast of the Cochecton Turnpike on River Road. Very visable from the road



Author: Mark Andrew Davis

Jonathan Paul Yerkes was born on 5 December 1759 at Moreland, Pennsylvania, the son of Titus and Margaret (Paul) Yerkes. He made his living as a farmer and miller. After moving his family to Wayne County, he constructed a sawmill and, later, a gristmill.

His name is found on one Muster Roll for the Company of Captain Andrew of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Militia, commanded by Colonel George Smith. The handwritten muster roll says Montgomery County; however, the Pennsylvania Archives Sixth Series, Vol I, page 645, says Philadelphia County. It must be noted this muster roll is dated 1786, three years after the end of the Revolution. It would be advisable to search for additional rolls from 1783.

He was married about 1789 to Elizabeth Jarrett. Their known children: Joseph, born 11 September 1790; Titus, born 25 December 1791; Jacob, born 9 February 1794; Mary Ann, born 24 January 1798 (wife of Elijah Clark); Nathan, born 16 July 1800; Margaret, born 28 December 1802; Sebastian, born 11 June 1805; David, born 23 April 1807; and Hannah, born in 1811 (wife of Daniel Sherwood).

Jonathan died on 27 March 1835 in Damascus Township, Wayne County, Pennsylvania, and is buried at Overlook Cemetery.

 

Sources:

  1. Linn, John B. and William Hegle, Pennsylvania Archives Second Series, Vol. XIII, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Clarence M. Busch, State Printers, 1896, page 248.
  2. Montgomery, Thomas Lynch, Pennsylvania Archives Sixth Series, Vol. I, Pennsylvania. Harrisburg: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1906, page 645.
  3. Find-a-Grave memorial.
  4. Leach, Josiah Granville, Chronicle of the Yerkes Family with Notes on the Leech & Rutter Families, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: privately published, 1906, pages 48-49.

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