The Fews on the Eno
Some Few Facts Few land grants in ERSP The brothers Few , James (1703-1787) and William (1714-1794) arrived on the banks of the Eno River in Orange County, NC in 1758. Odds are good that one or both had previously visited the area to scout out land. It is also likely that, being Quakers themselves, they were acquainted with or even associates of Herman Husband (1724-1795), a Quaker real estate hawker, later, a leader in the Regulator movement. They arrived in Orange at a pivotal moment in that county’s history involving a contest of wills between the 99% and the 1%. When the Fews arrived, North Carolina’s governor, Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765), keeping a promise made during his job interviews, was in the midst of establishing Anglicanism as the colony’s official religion in a colony in which Anglicans were a miniscule minority. Perhaps he became governor owing to his family’s long experience doing this sort of thing in Ireland. His zeal for his church and his class woul