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Notes for Hugh Sharp and Rachel French

1664 Rachel French was born on March 24. Rachel was baptized on April 3 at Church S.S. Peter and Paul, Nether Heyford. [1]

1687 Rachel French and Mathew Allen were married. [2]

1702 Rachel Allen, widow of Chester Township, Burlington County, and Hugh Sharp, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, were married on February 9 [twelfth month called february] at Camden, New Jersey. Witnessed by Mary French [perhaps Mary Allen French wife of Thomas French], Thomas French, Charles French, and others. [3] [4]

1730 Elinor Wright, daughter of Jonathan Wright of Burlington, married Isaac Connarro on October 22 at the Burlington Monthly Meeting. Witnessed by Hugh and Rachel Sharp and others. [5] [6]


Footnotes:

[1] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 64, 83, [HathiTrust].

[2] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 64, 83, [HathiTrust].

[3] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Certificates of Removal Marriage Certificates, 1681-1741, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[4] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 64, 83, [HathiTrust].

[5] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Burlington Monthly Meeting, Minutes, 1677-1777 (includes many different types of records), 233, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].

[6] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 277, 209, [HathiTrust].