Ann Yard

Not the same as Ann Reeder Yard

Ann was born about 25 Apr. 1721 based on her age at death (see below), the daughter of Robert Pearson Jr. and Elizabeth Tindall and the twin of John Pearson. Presumable her birth occurred in Nottingham Twp., old Burlington Co., NJ (now Hamilton Twp., Mercer Co.), where her parents resided. She married Benjamin Yard on 18 July 1744. They had 10 children together. She is presumed to have died at her residence in Trenton, old Hunterdon (now Mercer) Co., NJ.

Her husband Benjamin Yard made the following entry regarding her death in the family Bible record:

"This Day october ye five Day one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy two on Monday about twelf a Clock at night Departed This Life my Dear wife Ann Yard, Aged fifty one years five months & Ten Days, Married to me twenty Eaigh [eight] years two months Seventeen Days. On wensday ye Seven Day Parson Spencer preach[ed] her funeral Sarmon the Text was Job 7 Chapt and 16 Verse."

See: "Family Records: Benjamin Yard" by Joseph R. Klett, The Genealogical Magazine of New Jersey 64:137-143 (Sep. 1989).

Note: "Parson Spencer" was Rev. Elihu Spencer, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton.

Also, Ann's and her twin brother John's birth date is reported as 5 Feb. 1722 by genealogist Charles R. Hutchinson in his 1917/19 manuscript Pearson genealogy (at New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, and available on FHL microfilm). As his source for this date is unclear, Ann is shown with the birth date calculate from her age at death as recorded by her husband.

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