[2] He was their second son, after John, who lived in North Yarmouth, in today's Maine, before moving south to Scarborough.
[1] His other siblings were Samuel, Elizabeth, Rachel, Benjamin and Grace.
[2] In 1670, he purchased land in Pejepscot (today's Topsham, Maine), although the outbreak of King Philip's War, shortly thereafter, forced him to move to Gloucester, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
[1] In 1730, in the depositions of John Lane and Nathaniel Wharf, it was testified that York owned a "lot of land near Mussel Cove in Casco Bay and built a house and possessed by virtue of a town grant more than fifty years ago."
The location of York's home was recorded in the United States Coast Survey map.