Richard Stites

1640 - 1702  (62 years)

• Name	Richard Stites  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	1640  [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1702	Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York   [1, 4]
  Person ID	I43664	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	22 Sep 2025

  
  

  Father	John Stites   d. 1717, Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York
  Family ID	F25507	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Underhill,   b. Bef 16 Aug 1640
  Marriage	14 May 1668  [2, 3]
  Notes	Date of license.
  Children	+ 1. William Stites,   b. 1676, Hempstead, Nassau, Long Island, New York d. 1727, Springfield, Union, New Jersey (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F25506	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Sep 2025

  
  

• Notes

  Richard Stites (1640-1702) = Mary Underhill (b. 1640) Benjamin Stites = Elizabeth George Stites = Esther George Stites Edith Stites = Henry Young Townsend Henry Townsend = Sarah Townsend Sarah Townsend = Swain Townsend Godfrey Reuben Somers Godfrey = LaDora T. Layton Elizabeth Layton Godfrey = Harold Godfrey Harold Godfrey = Mabel Frances Boardman Bonny Jean Godfrey = Donald Carl Jacobs Jill Tracy (Jacobs) (Stevenson) (Biden), First Lady of the United States 2021-2025

  
  

• Sources

  [S8672] Edmund J. James, "The Stites Family." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 28:165, 28:237, 1897. [S8676] Simon Parker-Galbreath, "Mary (Underhill) (Naylor) Stites of Gloucestershire, England, and New York: Her Parents and Her 'Cousin' Thomas Hall." New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 153:25, 2022. [S8677] Underhill Genealogy ed. Josephine C. Frost. Underhill Society of America, 1932. [S8669] The Woodruffs of New Jersey by Francis E. Woodruff. New York: The Grafton Press, 1909.