1695 Hannah French and Mary French married Richard Buzby and Nicholas Buzby in a double wedding on August 30. Witnessed by Charles French and others. [1] [2]
Charles and Elinor French were the parents of Charles French, husband of Ann Clement. [3] [4]
1699 Charles French inherited his father's property. A later deed stated that that the estate was thereafter to be know as "Strawberry Hill".
A fire at Charles French's meeting House destroyed most all records regarding Charles, his descendants and their lives. He was an active member of the Waterford Township Meeting.
Charles French married Elinor a member of the Shrewsbury Meeting.
1699 Charles French returned to England to look over the lands left him there on 4/5/1699 & 7/6/1703.
1702 Richard French and Mary King were married on January 13, 1701/02 at the house of Harmenus King, Nottingham Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. Witnessed by Charles French and others. [5]
1702 Hugh Sharp of Pensbury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania married Rachel Allen of Chester Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey, widow, on 9 of month 12 called February, at the house of the aforesaid Rachel Allen. Witnessed by Charles French and others. [6]
1701/02 On 13 of 11th month (January), Charles French witnessed the marriage of Mary King and brother Richard French at the house of Harmanus King in Nottingham Twp, Burlington County, New Jersey. [7]
1703 Charles French was granted a removal from Burlington Meeting to England on 6th day, 7th month. [8]
1704 "To all captains & other military officer concerned" ... Charles French was listed as a Quaker excused from military duties in Wellingboro, Burlington County. [9]
1704 Charles French signed a document in 11/1/1704 that he was a member of the Quaker Society and could not in good conscience join the militia or bear arms.
1709 On 19 of month 3, Charles French, and others, witnessed the wedding, at Chesterfield, Burlington County, New Jersey, of Isaac Horner, of Mansfield, and Elizabeth Sikes, of Chesterfield. [10]
1714 Charles French sold 250 acres of the estate on Rancocas Creek to Nicholas Buzby, his brother-in-law. The land then passed into the hands of the great grandfather of Benjamin Franklin, Governor Franklin. The Franklin's in turn sold the property to Robert Morris, the patriot financier of the American Revolution. [11] [12]
1719 Charles' second wife was an "outsider", name unknown. He was reprimanded by the Society representative Hugh Sharp(his brother-in-law) 6/3/1719.
1889, Richard Buzby, a descendant of either Mary or Hannah French, Thomas' daughters, purchased the property back into the French family possession. [13]
"Charles French, third son of the founder and his first wife, was born in England, March 20, 1671. He administered his father's estate, and in this connection visited England in 1699 and several times thereafter. He was a prosperous farmer, a man of prominence, and had interests in both Burlington and Gloucester counties. He was twice married, and left male issue."[14] [15]
[1] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 284, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[4] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 148, [HathiTrust].
[5] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 56, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Marriage Certificates, 1681-1741, 28, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[7] Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, Burlington, New Jersey, Births and Deaths, 1675-1750, Vol. K, Marriages, 1684-1724, 56, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 47.
[9] U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1678-1737, left, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] "Early Minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting," Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 2 (1902), 93-171, at 66, [HathiTrust].
[11] George DeCou, The Historic Rancocas (1949), 219, [GoogleBooks].
[12] George DeCou, Burlington: A Provincial Capital (1945), 182, [GoogleBooks].
[13] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 49, [HathiTrust].
[14] Mary Depue Ogden, ed., Memorial Cyclopedia of New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1921), 15, right column, [HathiTrust].
[15] The American Historical Society, Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography, Vol. 1 (Memorial History Company, 1916), 15, of 15-6, [InternetArchive].