1751 On May 10, William French was born. [1]
1753 On 28 July, Rachel Rickey was born. [2]
1777 Rachel Rickey, daughter of Thomas Rickey, of Lower Makefield, Bucks County, married William French, son of William French of Burlington County on September 17, at the Falls meeting. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
1779 On 3 of month 3, William (Jr) and Rachel French requested a transfer from the Falls meeting in Bucks County to the Chesterfield meeting, Burlington County, New Jersey. [12]
William French and wife Rachel Rickey and 7 children were named as member of the Upper Springfield meeting. [13]
[1] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting 541, Members (1783-), births and deaths (1717-1833), 38, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[2] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting 541, Members (1783-), births and deaths (1717-1833), 38, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[3] Anna Miller Watring and F. Edward Wright, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Church Records of the 17th & 18th Centuries, V2, Quaker Records: Falls and Middletown Monthly Meetings (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2003, ISBN 1-58549-270-1), 48.
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Bucks County Pennsylvania, Marriages and Births, Book B, 120, [AncestryImage].
[5] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 1015, [HathiTrust].
[6] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. 2 [NJ and Pennsylvania] (1938), 1023, [HathiTrust].
[7] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 20.
[8] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 231, [HathiTrust].
[9] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 330, [HathiTrust].
[10] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 3 (1995), 39.
[11] John B. Linn and William Henry Egle, Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Volume 9. (Marriages to 1810, Volume 2) (1890), 237, [InternetArchive], [GoogleBooks].
[12] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, H Record of Certificates of Removal, Makefield Preparative Meeting, Bucks County, PA, [AncestryImage].
[13] U.S. Quaker Meeting Records, Upper Springfield Monthly Meeting 541, Members (1783-), births and deaths (1717-1833), 38, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].