Yarnall, Peter, 1754-1798

p. 106. Peter Yarnall and Zebulon Pike were in the same military company during the Revolutionary war.

vol 1, pp. 191-192. Peter Yarnall, M.D., b. Philadelphia, Pa., 2 mo. 17, 1754; d. Byberry, Pa., Feb. 25, 1798; the son of Mordecai and Mary (Roberts) Yarnall.... Peter Yarnall was apprenticed by his father to learn the trade of tanner and currier. His employer giving up his business, he was apprenticed in 1770 to another master in Chester Co., Pa. He was granted a certificate, Philadelphia MM, Pa., 10 mo. 26, 1770, to Uwchlan MM, Pa. He ran away from his second employer, went to New York, and enlisted in the British Army. Because of this act he was disowned 9 mo. 10, 1772, by Uwchlan MM, When release from the Army was procured by the efforts of his father, he went to Trenton, Mercer Co., N.J., where he lived until his majority. Then he went to Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., where he worked as a tanner and started to study medicine at the Pennsylvania Hospital. He was commissioned a Surgeon’s Mate of the 3d Pennsylvania Battalion, Feb. 7, 1776. In August, 1776, he transferred to the U. S. Navy. He returned to the Army May 22, 1777, as Surgeon’s Mate of the 4th Continental Dragoons and resigned four months later, Sept. 15, 1777. He resumed his professional studies and in 1779 was graduated from what is now the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He was restored as a member of Uwchlan MM 12 mo. 7, 1780. He lived for some years at Concord, Delaware Co., Pa. He went to York, Pa., in 1785; to Hatboro, Montgomery Co., Pa., in 1791, and to Byberry, Pa., in 1797. His will was dated 2 mo. 17, 1798; a codicil was dated 2 mo. 19, 1798, and his will was probated Mar. 5, 1798.

p. 419-424. Died 1798-02-20 at his house in Byberry in the 45th year of his age, after a short illness; son of Mordecai Yarnall; spent some time in the army around the time of the Revolution, but gave up these habits and was called to the ministry; moved into the boundaries of Horsham Monthly Meeting shortly thereafter.

p. 179, image 319. I, Peter Yarnall, of the township of Concord in the county of Chester in Pennsylvania, practitioner of physic, do hereby set free from bondage my mulatto boy named Job, aged about thirteen years, when shall arrive at the age of twenty one years... in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand... this fifteenth day of the eleventh month anno domini one thousand seven hundred and eighty four.