Jasper Yeates (1745-1817)
Jasper Yeates, lawyer and judge, was born to a Philadelphia merchant family on 9 or 17 April 1745. A graduate of the College of Philadelphia, he gained admission to the bar and established a practice in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In 1767 he married Sarah Burd (1748-1829); they would have ten children. Yeates held several local positions during the Revolutionary War and sat in the state convention that ratified the U.S. Constitution.
"Jasper Yeates." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310000109/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=3d85141e. Accessed 17 Aug. 2023.
Hon. Charles I. Landis, “Jasper Yeates and His Times,” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 46, Number 3 (1922), 199–232.
“To George Washington from Thomas Smith, 9 February 1785,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-02-02-0245-0002. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Confederation Series, vol. 2, 18 July 1784 – 18 May 1785, ed. W. W. Abbot. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1992, pp. 356–358.]
John Hill Martin, Martin’s Bench and Bar of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: Rees Welsh & Co., 1883).
Lancaster Intelligencer, 22 March 1817, page 3, column 1.
Jasper Yeates in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S., Mennonite Vital Records, 1750–2014 (Ancestry.com).
Capt Jasper Yeates at Find a Grave.
Honorable Jasper Yeates at Family Search.