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- . 1790 Oct 1, License #288; Jackson Brown French (J. B. French) & William Lawrence, both of the City of Burlington, bound to Hon'bl Elisha Lawrence, Esq'r, Vice President & Commander in Chief of New Jersey, £500 on 1 Oct 1790. a certificate of marriage between Jackson Brown FRENCH & Catharine Lawrence. Witnesses: Tho's Adams & Tho's Hewlings.
. 1800 Nov 23, Burlington, NJ, J B French:
Petition to the Legislative Council & General Assembly from inhabitants of Burlington City seeking a law to regulate the storage of gunpowder in populated places.
Ref: NJ Archives, Call # Box 1-17, Folder 85, P. 1, Family 5.
. 1800 Census Burlington Twp., Burlington Co., New Jersey
Jackson B French
Household Remarks:
Land (acres) 14; houses & lots 1; horses 1; cattle 2; shopkeepers 0; fisheries 0; grist mills 0; tanyards 0; ferries 0; singlemen & horse 0; singlemen 0.
. 1810 Census, Burlington Twp., NJ.:
Household Remarks:
Acres of improved land 17; houses & lots 10 acres & under: 1; horses: 1; cattle: 1; householders: 0; single men: 0; "Merchants, Shopkeepers &c": 0; fisheries: 0; grist mills: 0; toll bridge/ferry: 0.
Verify relationship to Thomas French 1639-1699.
Thomas French was baptized 3 November 1639 in the Protestant Episcopal Church of St. Peter & St. Paul, Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire, England. He married 1) Jane Atkins at the Parish Church of Whilton, England on 12 June 1660 and married 2) on 25 8 mo. 1696 Elizabeth Stanton of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. Thomas died in 1699 at Rancocas, New Jersey.
Thomas was the son of Thomas and Sara French, and although baptized in the established church in England, the family was Quakers & suffered for their faith numerous times. At one time Thomas was sentenced to 42 months in prison for refusing to pay tithes. Being a man of intense commitment, he signed the "Concessions &Agreements" at London in 1676 which provided for the settlement of New Jersey. Thomas arrived at Burlington, New Jersey 23 7 mo. 1680 bringing his wife Jane & their 4 sons & 5 daughters, the oldest child being 16 years.
Thomas was a cooper & settled his family on a tract of about 600 acres along the banks of the Rancocas, about 4 miles from Burlington. He held an influential place in the colony & was commissioner of highways 1684-85. In Burlington Monthly Meeting of Quakers, he became an active & courageous member, standing up for principles he cared about. His wife Jane died 5 8 mo. 1692 at Rancocas after the birth of their 13th child, who also died a few days later. Thomas married about 4 years later Elizabeth Stanton & they had one daughter.
A copy of French's will dated 3 May 1699 states that he was about to sail for England, where he owned land in Nether Heyford, Northamptonshire. He left a large estate of lands to his children, for he had about 1200 acres of improved land, & as he was a Proprietor of West Jersey, he also held about 2,000 acres as his unsurveyed proprietary share. Thomas & his first wife were buried in a private burial plot on the homestead plantation, the exact location now unknown. Elizabeth, his second wife, survived him & was devised the house & 420 acres which would revert to his daughters named.
Ref: Descendants of Founders of NJ, by Edsall Riley Johnston, Jr. #175
. 1811 Feb 23 - WILL of John M Hancelk Jr, Burlington City. Inventory List notes of Jackson B French.
. 1816 Mar 16, WILL of Lydia Riche of Burlington City, d/o Thomas Riche, b. Christ Church, Phila. Dwells west side of High Street. sister of Sara Redman. Wit. Jackson B French.
Mentioned as a son-in-law in the Land Petition of John Brown Lawrence d. Toronto.
. 1801 Apr 16: We learn from Norwich, that last Monday night between 12 & 1 o'clock, the house occupied by Mr. Jackson Brown was burnt, with all its contents & what is more distressing, one of his children, a girl about 6 years old, perished in flames.
Ref: Windham Herald Newspaper, Windham, CT.
. 1820 Jun 21, Burlington, Subscriptions for a new Church organ, Mr J B French $5.
. 1820 Jul 31 - Recd. from Jackson B Ranch, Treasurer of St. Mary's Church, $40 for my salary as Clerk to said Church for the year ending at East 1820, Signed, Thos. Airman, Collector & Clerk
. 1821 Aug 22, Wed. - Annual meeting of the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, in New-Jersey, the Right Rev. Bishop of the Diocese, clergy & lay deputies, assembled in St. Andrew's Church, Mount Holly, at 11 o'clock:
. Jackson B. French, Esqs. St. Mary's Church, Burlington; Robert Boggs & Wm. P. Deare, Esqs. Christ Church, New Brunswick;
Ref: Journal of Proceedings of Annual Convention of Episcopal Church, NJ. Vol 34-43.
Jackson B French, Burlington WILL Index # 11284, Page 128, Inventory 1826.
Recorded for further research:
. 1741 Feb 14. We have the melancholy News form NB, in NY. That a few days since, in the dead of night, a fire broke out in the famous new house of Philip French, which consumed the same, with all the furniture therein. Mr. French & his family hardly escaped with their lives, one of his daughters, to save her life, was forced out of a window 2 story high. No other house took fire from this, it being built at a small distance from Brunswick City. It was one of the largest & most complete houses in the Province, & had been built but little more than one year.
Ref: Boston Evening Post, published 1741.3.23.
. 1741 Feb 16 - New York. We hear from New Brunswick, that a most terrible fire has happened there which entirely consumed the Dwelling House of Philip French, a gentleman of that place & all the furniture etc. belonging thereto the people therein hardly escaped with their lives & a daughter of Mr. French being forced to jump out a window, 2 stories hight, how the fire began is yet unknown.
Ref: NY Weekly Journal.
. 1768, July 28: We hear from New Jersey, that last week died at Sandy-Hook, John French, Esq., late secretary to his Excellency Sir Henry Moore, Gov. of NY. Relation of Jackson B French?
Inscription, St. Mary's Church, Burlington:
Jackson Browne French, of the Island of St. Christopher's,* died March 4th 1826, Aged 71.
Note*: St. Christophers, St. Kitts & Nevis, Anguilla, West Indies.
Research & transcriptions by PJ Ahlberg. Thank you. - - - - - - [2, 3]
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1764 - 1826 (61 years)