BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



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sisters, Elizabeth and Sanih, and settled 

 in Darby township in 1082. His fatlier, 

 in his day, had borne "a fjood testi- 

 mony against ye false prophets, by 

 suffering imprisonment for tythes," and 

 it may be truthfully said, that the re- 

 maining members of the family, in 

 their new home, maintained with con- 

 sistency and propriety the doctrines 

 and practices for which he had been a 

 sufferer. Joshua Fearne was married to 

 Abigail Bats, of Newtown, in West 

 Jersey, in IG87, and died in IGO;^, leav- 

 ing two children, Joshua and Mary, to 

 survive him. He was a man of ability, 

 and during the short period his life 

 was spared, after his arrival in Penn- 

 sylvania, his time was much occupied 

 in public employments. He was ^'heriff 

 of the County, Clerk and also Justice 

 of the Court, and upon two occasions 

 was elected a member of the Provincial 

 Assembly. He was one of those select- 

 ed to testify against George Keith. 

 Abigail died more than two years be- 

 fore her husband. 



Fearxe, Josiah, was a younger son 

 of the immigrant Elizabeth Fearne, but 

 he did not arrive in this country till 

 some years after the elder members of 

 the family. In 1700 he was married j 

 to Sarah, the daughter of John Blun- 

 ston. Letitia Penn, the daughter of ! 

 the Proprietary, was present at the j 

 marriage, and signed the certificate. 

 Their children were Elizabeth, Sarah, 

 Martha, Joseph, Mary, Rebecca and 

 Josiah. They were all strictly in unity 

 with Friends. 



Fkw, Richard, came from Levington, 

 in the County of Wilts, England, and 

 settled in the Upper part of Chester 

 township before the first arrival of the 

 Proprietary in 1682. He was advanced 

 in years at the time of his arrival. In 

 religion he was a Friend, and by trade 

 a shoemaker. His son Isaac was mar- 

 ried to Hannah Stanfield, of Marple, in 

 1697. Richard Few died in 1688. He 

 was a purchaser of land in England in 

 conjunction with his son Richard, who 

 is not known to have migrated to this 

 country. Isaac removed to the neigh- | 

 borhood of Kennet. Ills children were 

 Richard, Isaac, James, Elizabeth, Dan- 

 iel, Joseph, William, Francis and 

 Samuel. ^ 



FisHBOURN, Ralph, a resident of Tal- 

 bot County, Maryland, was married ac- 

 cording to the usages of the Society of 

 Friends, to Elizabeth, daughter of John 

 Simcock, of Ridley, in 1G;»2. After the 

 death of his father-in-law, in 1703, 

 Riilph removed to Chester, where he 

 aj)pears to have entered into business 

 as an iiuporting merchant. He died 

 in 1708, and Elizabeth the year follow- 

 ing, without children. He was a man 

 of considerable wealth for the time in 

 which he lived, for in his will he speaks 

 of having given his son William, by a 

 former wife, " two plantations and two 

 negroes valued at 400 pounds sterling." 

 This William was a citizen of Chester in 

 1722. Ralph Fishbourn was for some- 

 time one of the Justices of Chester 

 Court. 



Flower, William, settled in or ad- 

 joining Marcus Hook as early as 1692, 

 and probably not much earlier. He 

 was then in membership with Friends, 

 and was that year married to Elizabeth 

 Morris, a member of Concord Meeting. 

 He died in 1717, leaving a widow 

 named Sarah, which shows that he had 

 been married a second time. He had 

 a son Enoch, and a daughter Mary, who 

 intermarried with John Flower, "to the 

 latter of whom he devised all his real 

 estate. Enoch Flower, the noted early 

 schoolmaster of Philadelphia, came from 

 a place in England called Brinkirorte. 

 William and John were doubtless re- 

 latives of Enoch, and probably came 

 from the same neighborhood. John 

 Flower, who resided in Chichester till 

 the time of his decease in 17.S8, left six 

 children, viz., Richard, John, Thomas, 

 William, Mary and Margaret. The 

 Flower family of Delaware County, and 

 many others, are descendants from John 

 and Mary Flower. 



Fox, Thomas, from Sulton, on the 

 Trent, County of Nottingham, England, 

 settled in Darby in 1684. Died in 

 1699, having devised his plantation in 

 Darby to his nephew, William Cook. 

 It is not certain that he w as a Friend. 



Fred, John, and family, emigrated 

 from the neighborhood of Carlow, Ire- 

 land, about the year 1712, and settled 

 in Birmingham, on the Brandywine. 

 They were in membership with Friends. 

 He had two sons, Benjamin and Nicho- 



