1770 Uriah French was born on 13 of month 7. [1]
1789 Isaac Ivins petitioned to be appointed guardian of his minor children under the age of fourteen: Barzillai, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, and Ann Ivins. He was appointed guardian until they achieved age 14 upon posting of bond. Dated in the November term of the Burlington County Orphans Court. [2]
1791 The account of the estate of Isaac Ivins [married to Mary Hopkins] named his 32 living children and grand-children, including son, Isaac Ivins, and his grand-children: Barzillai, Thomas, Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, and Ann as children of Isaac. [Photocopy, Estate account of Isaac Ivins naming children and grand-children.] [3]
1802 Uriah French married Mary Ivins on 3 of month 6. [4] [5]
Uriah French, eldest son of Samuel and Sarah (Heulings) French, was born July 13, 1770, died September 27, 1825, "fifty minutes past three o'clock in the afternoon." He was his father's assistant for several years on the farm and saw-mill property located near Mullica Hill, New Jersey, and although inheriting this property in 1814, he sold it within the same year. About 1817 he moved to Swedesboro, New Jersey, where he engaged in mercantile business and resided until shortly before his death in 1825. His home and store was a large brick building with commodious basement built about 1784, a wharf a few feet from the basement door extending into Raccoon creek affording facilities for receiving and shipping goods. He married Mary, daughter of Isaac (3) and Hannah (Tilton) Ivins, of Salem county, New Jersey. Her great-grandfather, Isaac Ivins, for half a century kept a general store and trading post at Georgetown, which was the resort of Indian and white trappers. Mary Ivins French survived her husband, and spent her widowed years at Mullica Hill. Sarah Heulings, daughter of Uriah and Mary (Ivins) French, married Jeremiah J. Richards, of previous mention.
[1] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 386, [HathiTrust].
[2] New Jersey Probate Records, 1678-1980, Burlington, Orphans Court Minutes 1-66, [FamilySearchImage].
[3] Burlington County, New Jersey, Miscellaneous Probate Papers 1778-1815, book I, image 94, [FamilySearchImage].
[4] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 2 (1913), 80, [GoogleBooks].
[5] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 386, [HathiTrust].
[6] The American Historical Society, Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography, Vol. 1 (Memorial History Company, 1916), 16, [InternetArchive].
[7] John W. Jordan, Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 4 (New York: Lewis Publishing, 1915), 1158, [InternetArchive].