| Richard was a very active Friend. He was involved in Missionary work as well as involvement with his meeting. A memorandum in the family bible of Thomas ffrench says: "December the first about ten at night my son Richard was born 1665. Th Lord give him grace that hee (sic) may continually walk before him." Richard was 15 when the family emigrated to America. He was a farmer and purchased 450 acres in Mansfield Township, Burlington County. He was a faithful and zealous Friend. In 1715 he was an overseer, Elder and minister. He was active in preaching and travelled to New England and the South in his ministry. In 1701 he was a tax collector. He raised a large family, all ten of his children reaching marriageable age. The particular phraseology of his recorded papers shows a mind exceedingly careful of details, with a just and kindly spirit. His monthly meeting testified, after his death, that in the exercise of his gift in the ministry, "he labored faithfully in his declining age, and travelled much in North America." |