Would you like to know how our town got its name? Historian Charlie Thomforde has the
answers.

Moving English families thousands of miles over the ocean. Uncertain ocean travel. Putting
down new roots. An epidemic. And the vision and energy of one immigrant who guaranteed
that his family name would persist over the centuries. The convoluted story will be told by
Charlie, and he will display three of the original 17 th century purchase documents that were
contributed to the Yardley Historical Association by a Yardley family descendent.