Sources for Reece, Yarnall and Baker genealogies:

1: Caleb Reece born 1774 was born too late to be the father of Daniel referenced
in Deep River, NC Quaker monthly meeting minutes
(Daniel, b. 1 Sep 1777, Deep River, son of Caleb Reece and Mary)
source for these minutes and birth date: William Wade Hinshaw's Encyclopedia
of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I, Baltimore Publishing Co., page 790

2: Chester County, Penn. Will #3153 in reference to Caleb Reece and Hannah Yarnall

3: Most sources show this Caleb as born 1756. Some show him as the one married to
Mary Riggs in 1806. If true, that would mean he waited until age 50 to marry Mary Riggs,
or that this was a later marriage. Other genealogies show the Caleb married to Riggs as
born 1786, a much more chronological fit. Some sites also show Caleb Jr. as being Thomas'
son, instead of Caleb Sr.'s son, but that creates too much of a generation gap. In fact, the
age dfference suggest that there might be yet a generation that is missing here.

4: This Francis Yarnall emigrated to Pennsylvania, leaving from Bristol, England, on May 26, 1683,
aboard the Bristol Comfort, and arrived in the new Quaker colony of Pennsylvania in October 1683.

5: The establishment of this Daniel as the same as the one born 1777 in Deep River is partially based upon the co-location
of this family with the Williams, Van Hooser, and Yarnall families as they migrated to other other Quaker communities,
as evidenced by land grants, militia rosters, and census records. This is somewhat speculative, since no firm
source such as Caleb's will provide any names such as Daniel's or other family members. However, this is the only Daniel Reece
found in census records with otherwise unidentified parents who is traceable from Deep River to Tennessee to Madison County, Illinois
via militia, census (1818, 1830 and 1840 Illinois) and other records.
The 1830 census lists him as too young, but the 1840 census brackets him in the correct age range.

6: 1812 War Record: War of 1812 Service Records (database on-line), Provo, Utah. The Generations
Network, Inc., 1999. Original data: National Archives and Records Administration. Index to the
Compiled Military Service Records for the Volunteer Soldiers Who Served During the War of 1812.
Washington, DC: National Archicves and Records Adminiistration, M602, 234 rolls.

7: Religion: Quaker: deep River Monthly Meeting Minutes, p. 90.

8: Note that President Lincoln was NOT a Yarnall descendant and thus not a cousin to this genealogy
It was other members of the Lincoln family who married into the Yarnall family.

9: Some genealogies show this Francis Yarnall as the same who married Mary Baker, but that conflicts with dates and other
Yarnall family histories. Likewise, there remains controversy about the exact Lincoln genealogy. There are so many Francis Yarnalls
and even Abraham Lincolns that it has obscurred what is fact and what is simply family folklore. I cannot vouch, therefore, that the
Lincoln and Yarnall lineages are correct as shown, even though the general family descent from the earlier generations is consistent.

10: Will of David Reece, dated 6 Jun 1745, prove date 17 Sep 1745, naming wife Jane, brother Caleb, sons, John and Joseph
father Thomas Reece and father-in-law Francis Yarnall. Some sources list Thomas as born in Chester, PA, but Chester, the oldest city in Pennsylvania was not incorporated until 1682, making Thomas's birth there in 1680/1681 unlikely.

11: Will of Francis Yarnall, dated 8 Aug 1775, prove date: 21 Sep 1778, names wife Mary, daughter Hannah as wife of Caleb Reece,
brother William Yarnall, and names grandchildren Caleb Reece, and Thomas, Francis, David, Hannah, Joseph and William (Reece) as Caleb's
siblings. Also names a deceased son Joseph Yarnall with wife Elizabeth and with children Isaac and Jane. Also names a daughter Mary (Yarnall)
and her husband Joseph Thomas who are to provide for their daughter Jane (Thomas), wife of William Williams, and their daughter
Hannah (Thomas) Reece's son John Reece. Also names Thomas's brother William Yarnall's children: Lydia, Hannah, Nehemiah and William Yarnall.

12: Corrections & Additions to " A Partial genealogy of the Name Yarnall-Yarnell, 1683-1970" (publ. 1970, by Harry H. and Ruth Yarnall)p. 157.

and: Our family ancestors, by Potts, Thomas Maxwell, b. 1836, which specifically names the youndge Francis Yarnall as the son of Francis, Sr, and Hannah Baker.
However, another record at LDS' Familysearch.org lists the marriage date as 15 Feb 1732. 13: 1721 Will of Francis Yarnall of Willistown Twnship, Chester County, (Pennsylvania), naming children and witnessed by his brother Philip.

14: 1775 Will of this Francis Yarnall, Jr. specifically names his stepson John Morris, proving that this Francis Yarnall had a second marriage to Mary
Morris. The Mary referred to in the will is Mary Morris, not Mary Baker, who was by then deceased.

15: This Mary Lincoln is frequently specified as the same Mary Lincoln who was the daughter of Mordecai Lincoln and
Hannah Salter. A minority of researchers account for this by suggesting that the Francis who fisrt married Mary Baker is actually
the son of Peter Yarnall and grandson of Francis Yarnall and Hannah Baker, rather than the son (of Francis, Sr.), but this is
inconsistent with Francis Sr.'s will, and the vast majority of research. In actually it appears that the two Francis Yarnalls
(b. 1694\95, and b. 1719) both married women whose maiden names were Mary Lincoln. Both women appear in many sources to have been born
in 1719, (althought the one married in 1742 shows an unknown date of birth). While the one who married in 1734 was
certainly previously married to a Morris and had a son named John Morris (as proven by the Will of Francis Yarnall Jr.), I have
found no strong support outside individual familiy reserachers published genealogies (beyond a confusion that the two women were the same)
that the Mary who married in Oley Township in 1742 was also previously married to a Morris. Further, it is virtally impossible that the two Mary
were the one-and-same daughter of Mordecai Lincoln and Hannah Salter. It is not possible that the one who married Hannah (Baker) Yarnall's son, Francis
was the same one who married Alice(Worrilow) Yarnall's son also named Francis. Alternative genealogies propose that the Mary Lincolne married in 1742 was
the daughter of either Jacob Lincoln, of Hezekiah Lincoln, Mordecai Lincoln, or even others. While most sources seem to indicate that the Mrs. Mary
Morris (m. 1733\1734) was Mordecai's daughter, another (most likely) possibility is that she was the widow Mary (Phillips) Morris, (b. 1694\95) daughter of
Phillip Phillips and Phebe Evans, and that the other Mary was indeed Mary Lincoln, daughter of Mordecai Lincoln and Hannah Salter.

16: Old family unpublished family notes and correspondence (by Lilly Bailey, Mrs. Ed Dolezakl and others) establishing a link between William Reece
born 1791 to Sarah (Ozbun) Reece and his (half-)brother Daniel Reece (b. 1777) to Mary (MNU) Reece.

*** The co-location\migration of the Daniel Reece\Mary "Polly" VanHooser family with other individuals, Quaker families and related branches in this
genealogy (migration of parents from Delawrae and Chetser Counties in Pennsyvalnia and Wythe County, Virgina to Deep River, Guilford, County, NC to Grainger
County, Tennessee, and to Indiana and finally to Madison County, Illinois serves as circumstantial but helpful information in verifying the identities (via censuses,
militia records, land records, cemetery records, marriage recorsd and Quaker Monthly Meeting minutes) of other branches and individuals, and in supporting
the sparse documentary evidence connecting the Daniel born in 1771 in Deep River, to the one who died in 1848, in Madison County, Illinois.

Special acknowledgements to Debbie Reynolds House for assistance digging through hundreds of pages of documents related to the Yarnall, Baker and
Reece families, to Edward L. Fleming of Salina, Kansas, for Bailey family notes on the Reeces, and to
Kyle Ayers for initial hints from his genealogy that pointed us in the right direction.


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