1739 On 6 of month 10, Charles French, bricklayer of Burlington County, and Ann Clement, daughter of Jacob Clement late of Gloucester County deceased, were married at Haddonfield meeting, Gloucester County. [1]
Charles and Elinor French were the parents of Charles French, husband of Ann Clement. [2] [3] [4]
1775 On 23 of month 11, Hugh Hollingshead and Eleanor French, daughter of Charles French of Waterford Twp, were married at the Great Egg Harbor monthly meeting. Witnessed by Charles French (not by Ann), and many others. [5] [6]
"Charles French, son of Charles and his first wife, Elinor, was born August 12, 1714, died January 15, 1785. He settled in Moorestown, New Jersey, about 1740, where he became a landowner and overseer of Chester Meeting, Moorestown, and active in the affairs of the Society of Friends. In 1771 he purchased one thousand acres of "land and swamp," with saw-mill, farm houses, etc., located about three miles from Mullica Hill, New Jersey. His will shows that at the time of his death he was a man of large possessions, and the records cite his intelligent attention to public affairs. He married Ann, daughter of Jacob and Ann (Harrison) Clement, a descendant of Gregory Clement, of London, England, member of the Cromwell Parliament, and one of the judges who tried and convicted Charles I. in 1648. Maternally she was a granddaughter of Samuel Harrison, mariner, of Gloucester county, New Jersey, who tradition says was a son or grandson of General Thomas Harrison, one of the signers of the death warrant of Charles I. and who was executed after the Restoration." [7]
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Marriage Certificates, 1681-1741, 81, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 284, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[3] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 131.
[4] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 268, [HathiTrust].
[5] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, 87, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 268, [HathiTrust].
[7] The American Historical Society, Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography, Vol. 1 (Memorial History Company, 1916), 15, of 15-6, [InternetArchive].