Surnames Starting With (  Y )

Complete Revision of:

A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
showing three generations of those who came before May 1692
on the basis of John Farmer`s Register

Volume 1 originally published Boston 1860-62

Second revision published by James Savage 1965
Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Company 1965
History of Congress Catalog Card no. 65-185451  

Edited for easier and friendly internet-search of names, by
Donald F. Day, Ottawa, ON, Canada
February 2014

PREFACE

John Farmer`s original continuous text has been found by many genealogists to be quite cumbersome, not easy to follow with his constant use of abbreviations, and in places almost impossible to interpret.  Over the past 18 months I have painstakingly sifted through Farmer`s condensed text, editing, rearranging, and reformating in the hopes of aiding researchers in their quest for family histories. 

I cannot guarantee that my interpretations are correct, so like any professional genealogist using resource materials, I would suggest that other sources be used in your search for exactness.

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DAVID YALE Boston, came probably with his father-in-law, Governor Eaton, in 1637, by wife Ursula (perhaps brought from Wales, where was the home of his father David Yale, yet more probable that he took her in Boston, though we know not her father) had Elizabeth, born May 1644, died in few weeks; David, 18 September 1645; Theophilus, 14 January 1652, and soon after removed, perhaps home to England.  He owned some land at New Haven, and may have lived there two or three years, and even have had Joseph there, as on page 24 of the "Yale family" Is presumed though to me is seems not probable how Farmer was led to make him a freeman 1640, is strange, for his name is not on the list, nor was he a member of the church of Boston, but he sympathized with the opponents of our community which probably induced him to abandon our country.  Governor Hopkins who had married his sister Ann, in his will, made at London, 17 March 1657, left him £200. 

ELIHU YALE New Haven, son of the first Thomas Yale, as Dr. Stiles positively says, though in more recent times, some at New Haven have doubted it, and offer very good presumption that he was son of David Yale, quoted the entry of the Merchant Taylor's school in London, where he was administered 1 September 1662, went home in his youth, and about 1678, preceeded to the East Indies, there resided twenty years, and went home with large estate, and three daughters, two of whom married into noble families, and he died in London, 22 July 1721.  His monument is at Wrexham, in County Denbigh, bordering on Cheshire. The assiduary antiquary, N.B. Shurtleff, in Genealogical Registrar IV. 245, in a brief, but comprehensive notice, slightly varying from Stiles, that is given in note to Winthrop II. 217, shows how he was Governor of the East Indies Company, and by his munificent legacy gained the enduring credit, of founder of the flourishing institute of Yale College in his native city.  

JOHN YALE, New Haven, eldest son of Thomas Yale of the same, is in the list of proprietors 1685, and that was all that could be seen of him before the appearance of the Genealogy 1850, by a descendant of the same ancestor.  In that tract we learn, that, by wife Rebecca, whose surname is not told, he had John, born 3 June 1694, when both parents had acquired mature age (and of this son it is carefully told, that he died 11 December 1711, aged 17 years 6 months and 7 days); Elihu, 30 March 1696; Abigail, 16 November 1697; and David, 8 October 1699; and died 16 December 1711, so few days after his son of the same name, aged 65.  His widow died 17 October 1734, aged 78. 

NATHANIEL YALE, New Haven, son of Thomas Yale of the same, was a proprietor 1685, but little more was known of him, until in the family Genealogy it is related that he married 21 October 1692, Ruth Bishop, daughter of Honorable James Bishop, had David, born 25 September 1693; James, 31 July 1695, died at 4 years; Ann, 21 August 1697; and Nathaniel, 31 December 1702; and died 29 October 1730.  His widow died June 1738 or 9, the Genealogy leaving the year uncertain. 

THEOPHILUS YALE, Boston, son of David Yale of the same, had very slight connection I believe, at any time, with his native place, except that, in 1675, he advanced passage-money for Edward Kidder, a shoemaker of Derbyshire to come over, who should serve therefor four years.

THOMAS YALE, New Haven, son of David Yale, born in Wales, came probably in 1637 to Boston, with Theophilus Eaton, who had married for his second wife the widow mother of Thomas, and with his father-in-law, went in 1638 to plant at New Haven; there signed the plantation covenant, 1639, married Mary Turner, eldest daughter of Captain Nathaniel Turner, had John, born about 1645; Thomas, about 1646; Elihu, said by Dr. Stiles to have been born 5 April 1648, but some doubt, whether he was son of Thomas Yale, or even born in New Haven, suggested that he may have been son of the brother David Yale, or even brother, but the town record contains not the birth of either of the three; Mary, 16 October 1650; Nathaniel, 3 January 1653; Martha, 6 May 1655, baptized 18 March 1660, who died under 16 years; Abigail, 5 May 1660, baptized perhaps, 22 July following; Hannah, 6 July 1662; and Elizabeth, 29 January 1667.  Was Representative 1672, and died 27 March 1683.  His estate by inventory of 7 May following was £479, and in 1684 it was distributed to the widow, three sons (Elihu not named but he may have declined to partake) and four daughters of whom Mary had married January 1673, Joseph Ives; Hannah, married 9 May 1682, Enos Talmadge; and Elizabeth married 30 July 1688, Joseph Pardee.  His widow died 15 October 1704. 

THOMAS YALE, New Haven, son of the preceding, was made freeman 1668, married 11 December 1667, Rebecca Gibbard, daughter of William Gibbard, had Hannah, born 27 July 1669; and removed to Wallingford, had there Rebecca, 2 October 1671; Elizabeth, 25 July 1673; Theophilus, 13 November 1675; Thomas, 20 March 1679; Nathaniel, 12 July 1681; Mary, 27 August 1684, died under 19 years; and John, 8 December 1687.  Took second wife 8 February 1689, Sarah Nash, daughter of John Nash, who died 27 May 1716, and he took third wife 31 July following, but had no children by either, and died 26 January 1736.

JOHN YARDLEY, Braintree 1688, as found by Felt.      

FRANCIS YATES, Wethersfield, removed 1641 to Stamford, says Hinman, but I judge him the same who was of Hempstead 1647, made a freeman of Connecticut 1658, and perhaps at last a resident at West Chester, in the Province of New York, where he made his will, 1682, probated and recorded in New York by whom are named five children Mary, John, Dinah, Jonathan, and Dorothy.

GEORGE YATES, made a freeman of Connecticut 1658, may have been brother of the preceding.

HENRY YATES, Guilford 1669, there died January 1705, in his will given all his property to the church and to Deacon John Meigs, and thus we may assume though the amount was only £61, that he had no wife nor children.

JOHN YATES, Duxbury, by wife Mary, had John, born 15 August 1650; perhaps removed to Eastham, and died soon, for his widow married October 1651, Richard Higgins of Eastham. 

JOHN YATES, Eastham, perhaps son of the preceding, married 11 January 1700, Abigail Rogers, probably daughter of Lieutenant James Rogers.

JOHN YATES, perhaps the same, if the spelling of the name on the roster, Yeates, may mean the same (as in the Boston record we call Yeale, Yale), was a soldier in Moseley's Company December 1675. 

WILLIAM YATES is the name of a passenger aged 14, in the Abigail from London 1635, of who no more is known.

TIMOTHY YEALES, Weymouth, married at Boston, Naomi Frye, daughter of George Frye of Weymouth, had Ann, born 25 April 1673, died probably young; Ann, again, 7 May 1679; and Nehemiah, 17 September 1689; perhaps others.

ROGER YELINGS, Boston, by wife Elizabeth, had John, born 30 August 1680; and David, 12 August 1682.

JOHN YELL, or JOHN YEAL, Ipswich, married says Mr. Felt, 27 July 1690, Joanna Smith, had Elizabeth, born 15 June 1691; and John, 20 June 1694; and died 20 January 1701.

SAMUEL YEO, or SAMUEL YOW, I find in the Essex record 1653, as is also Allen; but the name is given Yew, and sometimes is spelled Yeow, and in Drake's valuable history of Boston, 800, is Yow. 

THOMAS YEO, or THOMAS YOW, Boston, married Sarah Phippen, daughter of David Phippen or David Phippeny of Hingham, before November 1650, as the will of Phippen calls him son-in-law, but Elizabeth, born 1 October 1652; and Thomas, 24 April 1654; perhaps more.  Our Colony record IV, shows that in 1652 he was one of the projectors of the conduit in Ann Street, long a valuable supply of pure water, and discontinued in the present century.  I think he had a brother Charles Yeo, at Bristol, England.

EDMUND YEOMANS, Charlestown, by our Colony record III, had wife Susanna, and sold beer in 1650; but he is not seen as a householder there in 1658.  He may be the man of Haverhill, 1666, by Coffin, in Genealogical Registrar VIII. 168, called Edward Yeomans. 

EDWARD YEOMANS, Boston, married 21 June 1652, Elizabeth Joslin, daughter of Thomas Joslin, Thomas Jocelin, or Thomas Josselin, had Edward, born 6 May 1657; and perhaps other children, but he died not long after, for his widow married 9 May 1662, Edward Kilby. 

EDWARD YEOMANS and JOHN YEOMANS, early settler of Plainfield. about 1700, may have been son of the preceding.

RICHARD YESCUTT, Ipswich, with wife Alice, given me by Mr. Felt, probably came to New England too late for administration in this work.

BENJAMIN YORK, or BENJAMIN YORKE, Dover, son of Richard York, probably of the same, was first taxed there 1677. 

JAMES YORK, or JAMES YORKE, Stonington, had first lived at Braintree, where his son James York was born 14 June 1648; was a freeman of Connecticut 1666, but when he died is not heard. 

JAMES YORK, or JAMES YORKE, Stonington 1670, son of the preceding, a freeman 1673, sold the year preceding his estate in Boston, and died early, perhaps in 1678, for his widow Deborah married 12 March 1679, Henry Eliot. 

JOHN YORK, or JOHN YORKE, Dover, probably son of Richard York of the same, took oath of fidelity 1669, had wife Ruth, perhaps was of North Yarmouth 1684. 

RICHARD YORK, or RICHARD YORKE, Dover 1648, was probably father of Benjamin, Edward, and John, and died early in 1674, his inventory being of 27 March.  He left widow Elizabeth. 

SAMUEL YORK, or SAMUEL YORKE, Gloucester, by wife Hannah, had John, born 1695, but some years before had lived at North Yarmouth.  This son and another (Thomas York) died says Babson, 1699, and the father died 18 March 1718, aged 73.  But in his will he mentioned other children all probably elder.  Samuel, who had three sons: Samuel; Benjamin; Richard; besides three married daughters.

PHILIP YOUDALL, Gloucester, of who nothing good is told by Babson, and no wife or children mentioned, nor any date given by him, 183, except that of 1648 in connection with some offence.

CHRISTOPHER YOUNG, Salem 1638, came from Yarmouth, County Norfolk, by wife Priscilla, had Sarah, baptized 2 December of that year; Ruth, March 1641; Judith, 1 January 1643, died soon; and Christopher, 18 February 1644; and died at Wenham 1647, between 19 June, date of his will, and 8 July, when it was probated.  See Essex Institute II. 6  By our Colony record II. 272, it is seen that discretion in our Court controlled the affection of the testator, by whom he directs his children to be sent to England.  Coffin, in Genealogical Registrar VIII. 169, has some slight variation from the names and dates, but my baptisms are sure.  Sarah married 20 March 1662, I suppose, John Marsh. 

DAVID YOUNG, Eastham, son of the first John Young of the same, married 20 January 1688, Ann Doane, daughter of John Doane of the same, had Abigail, born 28 December following; Rebecca, 24 October 1689; Ann, 5 October 1691; Hannah, 6 September 1693; John, 20 March 1695; Priscilla, 26 June 1697; Dorcas, 16 December 1699; David, 25 September 1701; Lois, 2 November 1704; Esther, 16 November 1708; and Henry, 23 March 1711.

EDWARD YOUNG Boston 1675, a fisherman, perhaps is the same, who by Coffin is mentioned at Newbury, having wife Hannah, and children Thomas, born 17 January 1691; and Richard, 7 September 1693. 

GEORGE YOUNG, Scituate 1660, married 15 January 1662, Hannah Pinson, daughter of Thomas Pinson, had Thomas, born 5 November 1663; Hannah, 1666; Margery, 1669; Elizabeth, 1671; and Patience, 1673; as Deane, 393, tells. 

GILES YOUNG, Boston, by wife Ruth, had Susanna, born 5 July 1672; and Naomi, 16 December 1680. 

HENRY YOUNG, Concord, was of Wheeler's Company, and 2 August 1675, at Brookfield, mortally wounded by the Indians at the same time with Captain Edward Hutchinson. 

HENRY YOUNG, Eastham, youngest son of the first John Young of the same, by wife Sarah, had Martha, born 28 July 1695; Elizabeth, 18 January 1698; Reliance, 3 March 1700; Moses, 15 November 1702; Thomas, 24 October 1705; and the father died 26 April following. 

JOHN YOUNG, Plymouth 1643, had perhaps the George Young, before mentioned, and John, born 9 November 1649. 

JOHN YOUNG, Salem 1638, removed probably to Charlestown, and died 29 December 1672. 

JOHN YOUNG, Eastham, by wife Abigail, married 13 December 1648, had John, born at Plymouth (where his wife had lived), 16 November 1649; Joseph, 12 November 1651, died soon; Joseph, again, December 1654; Nathaniel, April 1656; Mary, 28 April 1658; Abigail, October 1660; David, 17 April 1662; Lydia, 1664; Robert, April 1667; Henry, July 1669, died in few months; and Henry, again, 17 March 1672; and died 29 January 1691.  His widow died 7 April 1692.  Mary married 3 March 1677, Daniel Smith; and Abigail married 3 January 1683, Stephen Twining. 

JOHN YOUNG, Portsmouth, had John, born 1649, perhaps others. 

JOHN YOUNG, Southold, Long Island, 1662, had, perhaps, been of Windsor 1641, whence he removed before 1650, and in that year sold his estate at Windsor, was by son employed as agent to manage affairs with Connecticut jurisdiction, and Hammond has in his Index, marked him as Representative, but not so printed him in the body of the volume, was a Captain, and so much betrust, by the General Court of Connecticut, that he was made a magistrate over that part of Long Island where the people of Connecticut hoped to extort from the weakness of the Dutch; and he was, in 1663, by act of the Court put in nomination for an Assistant.  That he was never chosen was probably the consequence of the conquest of New York from the Dutch, and royal graduate to the Duke of York.  Often this man's name appears in Connecticut Colony record without the u and once an addition es is seen; and I am much inclined to believe that he was son of the Reverend John Youngs. 

JOHN YOUNG, Exeter, perhaps son of John Young of Portsmouth, took oath of allegiance 1677, was killed by the Indians 10 June 1697. 

JOHN YOUNG, Eastham, eldest son of John Young of the same, married Ruth Cole, daughter of Daniel Cole of the same. 

JOSEPH YOUNG, Salem 1638, of who I know only that he was one of a Committee in early days, to adjust the line of boundary between Salem and Ipswich.  See Colony record II. 

JOSEPH YOUNG, Eastham, brother of the preceding, married 23 October 1679, Sarah Davis, probably daughter of Robert Davis of Barnstable, had Samuel, born 23 September 1680; Joseph and Isaac, twins 19 December 1682; James, 4 April 1685; and perhaps others. 

MATTHEW YOUNG, Hartford, apprentice of William Williams to learn the trade of a cooper, in 1658 assented to transfer to another master; and that is all I hear of him. 

NATHANIEL YOUNG, Eastham, son of the first John Young of the same, left widow Mercy, who married 10 June 1708, Nathaniel Mayo of the same. 

PAUL YOUNG, Boston, died 1641, perhaps suddenly, at least we see in Colony record I. 318, that a Commission to settle his estate was given by the General Court.

RICHARD YOUNG, by Farmer given as the freeman of 1652 at Kittery, but was of Cape Porpus, when he died, left widow Margery, who returned inventory 18 February 1673, for £124.

ROBERT YOUNG, York, perhaps brother of Rowland Young, took oath of allegiance 22 March 1681.

ROBERT YOUNG, Eastham, son of the first John Young of the same, married 22 March 1694, Joanna Hicks, whose father is not told, had Robert, born 11 April 1695, died at 2 months; Robert, again, 11 December 1696; Lydia, 29 May 1699; Joanna, 1 June 1703; and Jennet, 22 May 1708. 

ROWLAND YOUNG, York, a freeman 1652, swore allegiance 22 March 1681, may have been father or rather grandfather of the Rowland Young, a boy, prisoner in Canada, 1695, who is called of Dover. 

THOMAS YOUNG, perhaps of Warwick, married Elizabeth Harcutt, daughter of Richard Harcutt of Warwick, but he may have come from Long Island, or at least went thither. 

THOMAS YOUNG, Scituate, son of George Young, married Sarah White, eldest daughter of Peregrine White, who long outlived him, and died 9 August 1755, aged almost 92 years, had George, born 1689; Joseph, 1692, died young; Sarah, 1695; Thomas, 1698, died young; Thomas, again, 1700; Joseph, again, 1701; Ebenezer, 1703; Joshua, 1704; and Isaac, 1706; and died 25 December 1732.  See Boston Newsletter of 29 August 1755. One Thomas Young I find of New Hampshire among the petioners in February 1690, for protection of Massachusetts.  Farmer counts the graduates of this name at Harvard five, Yale four, and other New England Colleges four, up to 1834.

JAMES YOUNGLOVE, Brookfield, died without family, and his brother John Younglove had administration on his estate, returned inventory 13 January 1667. 

JOHN YOUNGLOVE, Hadley, perhaps son of Samuel Younglove of Ipswich, was appointed, as appears by Colony record IV. part 2d in 1667, with John Pynchon of Springfield, a Committee for Quaboag, after named Brookfield, a freeman 1676, with prefix of respect, as he had preached there a year or two, with no great satisfaction school-master at Hadley six or seven years, and was a preacher at the settlement of Suffield 1681, in that County, and there met no better accepted than at Brookfield.  Died 1690, leaving widow Sarah and children, four sons and three daughters: John; Samuel, born 10 February 1677, at Hadley; James; Joseph, 6 November 1682, at Suffield; Mary, wife of Thomas Smith; Hannah, who became 1695, wife of George Norton; and Lydia, who married 1693, George Granger.  But he had also Sarah, who married 1682, John Taylor, and died next year with new born child, probably he was never ordained, and when the Court advised him to cease preaching, it may derogate nothing from his moral worth, for as my correspondant says, "he may have had an unhappy temper, but it is not unlikely that the temperature of the people was worse than his."  The widow died 17 January 1711. 

SAMUEL YOUNGLOVE, Ipswich, came in the Hopewell, Captain Babb, in the autumn of 1635, aged 30; with wife Margaret, 28; and Samuel, 1 year; probably had other children after arriving, perhaps James; certainly Joseph; and died in 1668, then called 62 years old.  As Coffin gives it in Genealogical Registrar VIII. 169, with the name of Simon Younglove. 

SAMUEL YOUNGLOVE, Ipswich, son of the preceding, born in England, wheelwright, was administered a freeman 1671, married 1 August 1660, Sarah Kinsman, had Sarah, born 5 February 1663; Samuel, 30 October 1665, died soon; Mary, 17 March 1668; Samuel, again, 27 July perhaps for the year is indistinct) 1671; Mercy, 25 May 1676; and John, 29 August 1677.  On his estate administration was granted 23 January 1707, when the widow was called Mary, and she soon after sold to the same John her share of the property.  Sarah married 20 June 1684, John Shatswell.

FRANCIS YOUNGMAN, Roxbury, married 2 December 1685, Ann, widow of the third Isaac Heath of the same, had Jonathan, born 9 October 1686; Cornelius, 1 September 1688; Ebenezer, 2 November 1690; Ann, 1 December 1695; Elizabeth, 17 January 1699; and Leah, 4 May 1701, died the same month; besides John, whose birth is not seen, but his death is on the record 26 July 1711; as is also that of the father 23 July of next year.

JOHN YOUNGS, or JOHN YONGS, Southold, Long Island, a minister of St. Margarets, County Suffolk, aged 35, with Joan, his wife 34, and six children John, Thomas, Ann, Rachel, Mary, and Joseph, would have come to Salem, in New England, in the Mary Ann from Great Yarmouth, May 1637, with many other passengers of who was the widow of learned William Ames, the Professor at Franequer, as is seen in a collection of records at Westminster, with copy of who her majesty's keeper of those treasures favored me; and in the margin of this part is inserted  "This man was forbyden passage by the Commissioners and went not from Yarmouth."  Probably the scrivener had no idea of a negative pregnant, as the lawyer says, in his mind, when he made that entry, but may have supposed that the power of the great archbishop, the imperious and foolish Laud, would forever restrain that migration.  As the whole complication of ecclesiastic impolicy was overthrown three years after the puritan's desire was then, if not earlier gratified.  One report places him at New Haven 1638-40.  I presume that Wood, in his history of Long Island where he makes Youngs a minister at Hingham, England, and to come to New Haven with part of his church in 1640, and to begin the settlement of Southold, in October of that year following tradition of the neighbor and may be more trustworthy, as Farmer quotes him, where he says, he died 1672, in his 74th year. 

JOHN YOUNGS, or JOHN YONGS, Southold, Long Island, eldest son of the preceding, (who is duly commended under Young), was, in 1681, under the government of the Duke of York, sheriff of the whole insular territory, as Wood tells, and died in his 75th year 1698. 

JOSEPH YOUNGS, or JOSEPH YONGS, Southold, Long Island, senior.

JOSEPH YOUNGS, or JOSEPH YONGS, junior of the same, administered freemen of Connecticut 1662, were probably brother and son of the Reverend John Youngs, or possibly son and grandson though less probable.

ROBERT YOUNGS, or ROBERT YONGS, York, killed by the Indians between York and Kittery 16 or 22 August 1690. 

THOMAS YOUNGS, or THOMAS YONGS, Greenwich 1673, and of Oyster Bay, on the opposite coast of Long Island 1682, may have been son of Reverend John Youngs, brought from England.