Life History

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  Quaker Monthly Meeting minutes provided a brief account of the events in the lives of Isaac Few and his Wife Hannah Stanfield.
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  Ten years later, January 27, 1699, Isaac Few and Hannah Stanfield of Marple -- marriage intentions allowed, " was recorded.
  
  A move from Chester Township to Kennet after Isaac's father's death read, " 3, 11 mo., 1708, Isaac Few requested certificate to Kennet, Newark.  "On 16, 2 mon., 1709, he deeded 180 acres of land in Chester to John Faucett ("Chester County, Deed Book C, page 94").
  
  Isaac Few was amoung the first to take up land in Kennet.  The first surveys had been made about 1686, but there were few settlements until after 1700.Isaac Taylor's list of land surveys in 1703 showed Isaac Few owned 600 acres on Brandywine Creek ("Futhey and Cope, Chester County, Pennsyvania, Page 179).
  
  He died intestate in 1734.  After the oldest son Richard assigned his rights of administration to his brother James, letters of administration were granted to James on his posting £1,500 bond with Daniel Webb and John Pasomon, 22 October 1734 ("Chester County administration Docket 1, page 145")
  
  Chester County Deeds Book "C" Page 95:
  "Thiis indenture made the 16th day of 4th month called April in the 7th year of the Rein of our sovereign Lady Queen Anne of Great Brittain, France and Ireland Anno Dom 1709.Between Isasc Few late of the town of Chester of the one part and John Fawcett of the Township of Rigley, Carpenter of the other part witnesseth.£160 good current silver money- all that messuage or demesne where the said Isaac did lately dwell situate in the township of Chester afsd [aforesaid]. with tract of land belonging to said messuage along Chester creek to Ridley Brook- 180 acres, signed Isaac Few, Witnesses Henry Hollingworth, John Simcock, James ??
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  BooK "E" Page 176:
  13 April 1726:  James Few and Dorcas his wife to William Harvey of Kenneth, Mauleteer. £51 [English money] same 47 acres, signed James Few, Dorcas Few.
  --  Descendants of Richard Few, Genealogy.com, http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/s/m/i/Walter-Smith-4/GENE5-0002.html
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  U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970
  Birth James Bailey Gordon
  SAR Membership 83156
  Application Date 6 Feb 1958
  Descended directly from Fews and Stanfields
  Earliest Ancestors cited Richard Few, died 1688 and wife Jane (maiden name unknown) [Joan or Jane Whitfield]
  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 birth 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 Buffington, dau of Joseph and Mary, who married Thomas Gordon

Sources

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