1695 Hannah French and Mary French married Richard Buzby and Nicholas Buzby in a double wedding on August 30. "A double wedding was quite unusual among the Friends of that day and the event probably created quite a sensation in the quiet little Quaker settlement on the Delaware.". [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
1714 Charles French conveyed 250 acres to his brother-in-law, Nicholas Buzby, part of this descending to the latter's son, John Buzby, who devised the same, in 1754, to his son, John, who, in 1763 sold it to John Smith of Burlington. [6]
Research Notes:
[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] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 222, [HathiTrust].
[4] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 1 (1994), 50.
[5] George DeCou, The Historic Rancocas (1949), 219, [GoogleBooks].
[6] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 49, [HathiTrust].
[7] George DeCou, Burlington: A Provincial Capital (1945), 181, [GoogleBooks].
[8] George DeCou, The Historic Rancocas (1949), 10, 44, [GoogleBooks].