1707 Robert French, son of Thomas French, was born in the 6th month. [1] [2]
1716 Hannah Cattle, daughter of Jonas Cattle, was born on 7th day 6th month. [3] [4]
1737 Robert French married Hannah Cattel at Chester meeting, Burlington County. [5]
The births of their children were recorded in the Great Egg Harbor meeting minutes. [6]
1739 Robert French voted in an election in Burlington County, New Jersey. [7]
1745 Robert French, perhaps this one, was a freeholder in Chester Township, Burlington County, New Jersey. Dated April 15. [8]
1747 Elizabeth French, daughter of Robert French and Hannah Cattel, was born of the 28th of 2nd month 1747. She departed this life Elizabeth Ferguson 10th of the 3rd Mo 1767. [9]
1781 Ann French, daughter of Robert and Hannah French of Chester Twp, married Samuel Carr, son of Caleb and Sarah Carr on 20 of month 12. Witnessed by Hannah French, Robert French, and others. [10]
1791 Barzillai Scott, son of Thomas and Leah Scott, married Mary Carr, daughter of Samuel and Ann Carr (daughter of Hannah) on 17th day, 9th month. Witnessed by Hannah French and others. [11]
A biosketch reports [12] [13]:
Robert French was born in the township of Chester, and county of Burlington, West Jersey in the year of our Lord 1708. His parents were religious members of the Society of Friends, whose pious labours on his behalf through the Lord's assisting grace were blessed. He was religiously inclined from his youth and grew in favour with his heavenly Father, and in the esteem of his Friends. His natural abilities were not great, yet his innocent exemplary life aud faithfulness in discharging the duties laid upon him, made his way open with all the lovers of the Truth. Having received a gift in the ministry of the gospel he was often led to exercise it, generally briefly, but in a lively manner, to the comfort of the well-minded. He was often engaged to exhort to love, and was himself a good example of that christian virtue, watchful over his own spirit, and living good measure agreeable to his profession therein. His removal was a loss to the meeting he belonged to, yet we are fully satisfied it is his gain. His decease took place Ninth mo 6th day, 1760, he being fifty two years of age and having been a minister twenty two years.
[1] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 135.
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 135.
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] John Clement, Sketches of the first emigrant settlers in Newton Township, Old Gloucester County, West New Jersey (Camden, NJ: Sinnickson Chew, 1877), 403, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[6] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] John J. Thompson, "Poll Book of an Election in 1739, Burlington County, New Jersey," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 18 (1894), 185-193, at 190, column 1, [GoogleBooks].
[8] Carlos E. Godfrey, "A List of the Freeholders for the City and County of Burlington," The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 29 (1905), 421-26, at 425, [InternetArchive].
[9] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Marriages, 1779-1794, 11, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[11] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Mount Holly Meeting, Births, Marriage Certificates and Burials, 1753-1827, 226, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] The Friend, A Religious and Literary Journal 33 (1860), 28, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[13] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 254, [HathiTrust].