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• "Richard's oldest son, RICHARD FEW, JR., married Susanna ___, and they were the parents of a daughter SUSANNA. Two sons and two other daughters died young.  Richard Few, Jr's wife died and was buried 7, 10 mo., 1680 at Devizes, a village in Wilshire.  He probably married again as the Chester Monthly Meeting record, entitled 'Burialls, Beginning the 23th Day of the 10th Month 1682' (page 6), related: 'Mary Widdow of Richard Few Jun:  Departed this Life the 30th of ye 1st month 1686' (Chester Monthly Meeting, Deaths, 1682-1884, mfm, Swarthmore College Library, Swarthmore, PA)."
  --  Descendants of Richard Few, Genealogy.com, http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/m/i/Walter-Smith-4/GENE5-0001.html
  
  The genealogy life events report that Richard Few Jr died in Wilshire, England, before1682 (the first year of record for his father Richard's residence in Pennsylvania), but a history cited in this genealogy reports that Richard came to Philadelphia separately shortly after his father and stepmother moved there with his brother Isaac.  He did die before his wife there in Chester.  Her death, reported in the Quanker meeting records cited iabove, reported that Mary, Richard's widow, died 30 January 1686.  So Richard died sometime before that date.
  
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  More About RICHARD FEW:
  Burial September 1688, Pennsylvania [note the historical source above, on his will, has date of will proving in court as March 1689 (1688).]
  Church Quaker
  Emigration June 02, 1681, Left England
  Immigration Bef. September 12, 1682, Arrived in America
  Occupation Shoemaker
  More About JANE WHITFIELD:
  Burial April 1674, England
  More About RICHARD FEW and JANE WHITFIELD:
  Marriage Bet. 1640 - 1667, England
  More About RICHARD FEW and JULIAN UNKNOWN:
  Marriage England
  
  Children of RICHARD FEW and JANE WHITFIELD are:
  i.              JOANE FEW, b. January 22, 1650/51, Wiltshire, England; d. Unknown, Unknown; m. (1) UNKNOWN, b. Unknown, Unknown; m. (2) ROBERT SILVESTER, Unknown, Unknown; b. Unknown, Horsely, County of Glouchester, Mercer; d. Unknown, Unknown.
  Marriage Unknown, Unknown
  2.      ii.             RICHARD JR. FEW, b. December 26, 1653, England; d. Bef. 1682, Wiltshire, England. [Quaker records above report he was in Chester Pennsylvania and his widow died there on 30 Jan 1686.  So Richard died in Pennsylvania some time before then.]
  iii.            WALTER FEW, b. July 03, 1656, Wiltshire, England; d. Unknown, Unknown.
  iv.             DANIEL FEW, b. November 20, 1660, Wiltshire, England; d. Unknown, Unknown.
  3.      v.              ISAAC FEW, SR, b. April 06, 1664, Wiltshire, England; d. 1734, Kenneth, Chester County, Pennsylvania.
  vi.             JOSEPH FEW, b. February 21, 1665/66, Wiltshire, England; d. Bef. 1682, Wiltshire, England.  Burial Bef. 1682, England
  --  Descendants of Richard Few, Genealogy.com, http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/m/i/Walter-Smith-4/GENE5-0001.html
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  Birth James Bailey Gordon
  SAR Membership 83156
  Application Date 6 Feb 1958
  Descended directly from Fews and Stanfield
  Earliest Ancestors cited Richard Few, died 1688 and wife Jane (maiden name unknown)
  Same generation ancestors:
  Francis Stanfield, b England, died 1692 Pennsylvania
  Grace (maiden name unknown) , b England, died 1691 Pennsylvania
  Isaac Few, son of Richard and Jane, b 6 April 1664 in England, died 1734 in Pennsylvania
  Hannah Stanfield, dau of Francis and Grace, b 1683 in England, married 1697 or 1699
  Joseph Few, son of Isaac and Hannah, 20 June 1708, d 1761
  Mary Astor, no borth or death info, married February 1733
  Mary Few, dau of Joseph and Mary, b 12 September 1741, d 22 November 1808, mar 1 August 1759
  Joseph Buffington, b 20 July 1737 in Pennsylvania, d 12 August 1798 in Spartanburg, South Carolina
  Descends further from Mary Buffingotn, dau of Joseph and Mary, who married Thomas Gordon

Sources

• 1. Genealogy.com Trees
• 2. Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970