William Yardley was an early settler of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and is the namesake of the borough of Yardley, Pennsylvania.
10 Facts About William Yardley
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William Yardley served as a justice of the peace for Bucks County and became a member of the Provincial Council.
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William Yardley was born in 1632 in Ransclough, England, located in Staffordshire.
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William Yardley was raised as an agriculturist, but associated with the mystic religious community in Renaissance England called the Family of Love.
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When William Yardley was 15, English Dissenter George Fox began preaching an unusual and uncompromising approach to English Puritanism.
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In 1656, at the age of 23, William Yardley began preaching on behalf of the Quakers.
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In one harsh imprisonment, William Yardley's only resting place for three months was the bare, unheated floor of his cell.
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William Yardley was an uncle of one of Penn's most trusted friends and counselors, Phineas Pemberton.
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The tract of William Yardley covered the site of Yardley, and, after his death, his son Thomas established a ferry there, called "Yardley's ferry," which the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly confirmed to him in 1722.
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In 1694, Thomas, the younger son of Thomas and nephew to William Yardley, came over with power of attorney to settle the estate.