Richard Buffington and Alice Palmer

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Husband Richard Buffington ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1654 - Buckinghamshire, England
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           Died: Jan or Feb 1747/48 - ? Chester Co, PA
         Buried: 

       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Ann [Unk] (      -Aft 1695) 1

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   Other Spouse: Frances Vane (      -Aft 1712) 1 4

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Wife Alice Palmer ¹

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           Born: 
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           Died: Aft Feb 1748
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Children

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General Notes: Husband - Richard Buffington

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His ancestors were Quakers or Friends, who left England several years before William Penn, and in 1677, five years before the arrival of Penn, we find one of them, Richard Buffington, among the list of taxables at Upland, which same Richard was the father of the first-born child of English descent in the Province of Pennsylvania. From Hazard's Annals, page 468, as well as from the Pennsylvania Gazette from June 28 to July 5, 1739, we learn that, "on the 30th of May past, the children, grandchildren and great-grand-children of Richard Buffington, Sr., to the number of 115, met together at his home in Chester county, as also his 9 sons and daughters-in-law, and 12 great-grandchildren-in-law. The old man is from Great Marle upon the Thames, in Buckinghamshire, in Old England, aged about 85, and is still hearty, active and of perfect memory. His eldest son, now in the 60th year of his age, was the first-born son of English descent in this Province."

He purchased land in East Bradford (in conjunction with William Vestall) in 1696, and removed to that neighborhood within a few years after. Feb. 25, 1720-1, he conveyed his lands to two of his sons, Thomas and William, reserving a life interest therein, and this was probably on the eve of his last marriage. He appears to have settled at a later period on 200 acres immediately in the forks of Brandywine, but never owned the land, which, however, his son Joseph afterwards purchased from the heirs of Isaac Norris, of Philadelphia.

It is not clear that all of his children were with his first wife.

1 J. Smith Futhey & Gilbert Cope, History of Chester County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Louis H. Everts, 1881), Pg 489.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 324.

3 —, Jefferson County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Company, 1917), Pg 111.

4 —, Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (J. H. Beers & Co., 1903), Pg 48.