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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. - - - - - -

Birth:
- from the Island of St. Christophers.

Died:
Buried from St. Marys Episcopal Church.

Jackson married Catharine KITTY LAWRENCE, .ii on 1 Oct 1790 in Burlington County, New Jersey. Catharine (daughter of John Brown LAWRENCE, Esq., U.E. and Martha TALLMAN) was born on 20 Apr 1764 in Burlington, Burlington Co., New Jersey; was christened on 20 Apr 1764 in Monmouth County, New Jersey; died on 8 Jan 1815 in Burlington County, New Jersey; was buried in St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Burlington, NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

. 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.

Notes:

Maria Frances, daughter. Jackson Browne French of Burlington, New Jersey.
Died. February 4 1832. A thin white marble monument on a raised brick foundation. Augustine, Florida, (much yellow mold 2011 covers the stone.)
by New England Historic Genealogical Society - 1894 New Eng. Historical & Genealogical Register, page 53. - - -

Birth:
Baptized, St. Mary's Church, Burlington

Died:
Buried Row 11, Head & footstones.

Buried:
Old Protestant Graveyard, Saint Augustine, Florida.

Notes:

. May 24, 1933. This is to certify that a lace sampler 8 x 8.5 came to me with the property of my Aunt, Charlott French Schenk: That the sampler came to my Aunt from her mother. Whether it was made by Katherine Lawrence French or Mrs. John Lawrence, the mother of Katherine, I am not able to state, but it was the work of one of the 2 ladies above mentioned.
Ref: Don't give up the ship, by Eugene Pool, 1942, from the collection of the Peabody Museum.

. Tuesday, 7th Inst. at Christ Church, Brooklyn,by the Rev. Dr. Stone,
David K Schenk of NY to Charlotte Seaton French, daughter late Jackson B. French of Burlington, NJ.
Ref: Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper, published 1843 Mar 9th.

Kitty Lawrence inherited 6 West Pearl when her husband Jackson Browne French died in 1826.

. 1796 Mar 18: The property passed to their daughter Charlotte Seton French. By this time Burlington's 'Green Banks' on the Delaware became a popular retreat. Over the course of Charlotte's 55 years of ownership she let the home to several families.
Ref: Letter from Oakey Hoagland to Jackson B. French, 18 March 1796, Trenton, N.J., New Jersey Archives, Deeds, Book D, 303.

(The deed bears earmarks of being a hastily drafted work to establish provenance of the property through 3 different transfers dating to Tench Coxe in 1791. The conveyance is also unusual in that it recites boundary markers that were stated to no longer be there at the time of the sale. The deed was written by
* James Kinsey, close friend and former law partner of the buyer's father John Lawrence.
Note: James Kinsey, Quaker, chief Justice of State of NJ, d. 1802.1.4th Burlington, 2nd wife was Hannah, sister to Jonathan Odell, Anglican priest. J Kinsey also lived on Pearl St. - John Lawrence. Jr. was witness to his Will on 1794.6.23.

Acknowledging certain irregularities the author states." Wherein the antecedent title to the several lots of land above described is more particularly set forth as by recitals and references to prior deeds and records respecting the same will more fully and at large appear." Those recitals and references have yet to be found.

Martha Tallman Lawrence died after giving birth to James. John Brown Lawrence, Mayor of Burlington during the revolution, went to Canada to avoid loyalist persecution, shortly after James' birth.
Ref: Wayne Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper: The Early Years. Their parent's row houses were next to each other on High Street, although the Cooper family left Burlington when the future author was one year old.

6 Pearl Street's history:
6 West Pearl St. High St. Historic District, Block 12, Lot 590, Burlington City (it is the backyard of 212 High St. (Near the Lawrence & Cooper Historical Houses.) 2.5 story brick house, gabled and stuccoed, with a combined footprint of 19 by 65 feet.
. 1693 - The Malt House, Barley turned into malt, building was 34 feet long.
. 1693 Brew House - Malt brewed coppers, aged and packaged Located in the middle of the property.
. 1717 Mill House 1717, raw grains were threshed & ground.
. 1717 Granary - Threshed grins were store in the granary until sufficiently fired for malting.
. 1717 Bolting house for grinding flour and added a bakery.
. 1778, July 28, 22 gallons of beer, cherry brandy, cherry rum West India Rum are flavored in the barrels here.

The old 6 Pearl house was sold to Todd & Kristin Kimmel in 2001. They initiated a renovation, gutting much of the 20th century interior fabric of the house. They ceased the rehab midway through the demolition, however, and put it up for sale in 2008. Current owner John Brady bought 6 West Pearl in 2010, continuing the rehabilitation of the house and conducting the research that has led to this nomination as a historical house.
Ref: US National Register of Historic Places, 2013. - - -

Birth:
Baptized, St. Mary's Church, Burlington

Died:
Veirfy

Charlotte married David K SCHENK on 7 Mar 1843 in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York. David was born est 1801 in Brooklyn, Kings Co., New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Baptized St. Mary's Church, Burlington