Charles and Elinor French were the parents of Charles French, husband of Ann Clement. [1] [2] [3]
1714 Charles French, child of Charles French and Elenor French, was born on October 12.
1720 Ann Clement, child of Jacob and Ann Clement, was born on November 24. [4]
1739 Charles French, bricklayer of Burlington County, and Ann Clement, daughter of Jacob Clement late of Gloucester County deceased, were married on 6 of month 10 (October 6, 1739) at Haddonfield meeting, Gloucester County. [5] [6]
The births of several children of Charles French and Ann Clement were recorded in Quaker records:
1745 Jacob French, child of Charles French and Ann French, was born on August 28 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [7]
1748 Samuel French, child of Charles French and Ann French, was born on July 17 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [8]
1749 Elizabeth French, child of Charles French and Ann French, was born on April 18 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [9]
1753 Charles French, child of Charles French and Ann French, was born on October 25 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [10]
1756 Elener French, child of Charles French and Ann French, was born on March 19. [11]
1775 Hugh Hollingshead and Eleanor French, daughter of Charles French of Waterford Twp, were married on 23 of month 11 at the Great Egg Harbor monthly meeting. Witnessed by Charles French (not by Ann), and many others. [12] [13]
1785 Charles French died on January 15, 1785 in Burlington County, New Jersey. [14] [15]
1785 The estate of Charles French of New Jersey, USA was administered. The will was dated November 13. The administration took place on March 29, 1785 in Waterford, Gloucester County, New Jersey. The will named Charles French and Jacob (Son). [16]
A biosketch reports [17]:
Charles French, son of Charles and his first wife, Elinor, was born August 12, 1714, died January 15, 1785. He settled in Moorestown, New Jersey, about 1740, where he became a landowner and overseer of Chester Meeting, Moorestown, and active in the affairs of the Society of Friends. In 1771 he purchased one thousand acres of "land and swamp," with saw-mill, farm houses, etc., located about three miles from Mullica Hill, New Jersey. His will shows that at the time of his death he was a man of large possessions, and the records cite his intelligent attention to public affairs. He married Ann, daughter of Jacob and Ann (Harrison) Clement, a descendant of Gregory Clement, of London, England, member of the Cromwell Parliament, and one of the judges who tried and convicted Charles I. in 1648. Maternally she was a granddaughter of Samuel Harrison, mariner, of Gloucester county, New Jersey, who tradition says was a son or grandson of General Thomas Harrison, one of the signers of the death warrant of Charles I. and who was executed after the Restoration.
[1] Richard Haines, Ancestry of the Haines, Sharp, Collins, Wills, Gardiner, Prickett, Eves, Evans, Moore, Troth, Borton, and Engle Families (1902), 284, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[2] Charlotte D. Meldrum, Early Church Records of Burlington County, New Jersey, Vol. 2 (1995), 131.
[3] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 268, [HathiTrust].
[4] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Births and Deaths, 1682-1853, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[5] Quaker Meeting Records, Haddonfield Monthly Meeting Marriage Certificates, 1681-1741, 81, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[6] Jordan Dodd, New Jersey Marriages, 1684-1895, [AncestryRecord].
[7] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Births and Deaths, 1682-1853, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[8] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Births and Deaths, 1682-1853, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[9] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Births and Deaths, 1682-1853, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[10] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Births and Deaths, 1682-1853, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[11] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Births and Deaths, 1682-1853, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[12] Quaker Meeting Records, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Second Record Book of Births and Deaths, 1729-1883, 87, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[13] Howard Barclay French, Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas French, Volume 1 (1909), 268, [HathiTrust].
[14] Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935, Evesham Monthly Meeting, Births and Deaths, 1682-1853, [AncestryRecord], [AncestryImage].
[15] The Ridge Runners: A Magazine of Migration, Vol 13, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[16] New Jersey, U.S., Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817, Vol.36, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[17] The American Historical Society, Cyclopedia of New Jersey Biography, Vol. 1 (Memorial History Company, 1916), 15, of 15-6, [InternetArchive].