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             Husband: Joshua FRENCH (1)
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                Wife: Hannah (2)
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Children
01               (M): Frederick FRENCH
                Born: 15 OCT 1772 in Norwich, New London, CT (3)
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02               (F): Charity FRENCH
                Born: 22 JAN 1775 in Norwich, New London, CT (4)
                Died:
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03               (F): Hannah FRENCH
                Born: 31 OCT 1778 (5)
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04               (M): Walter FRENCH (6 7 8 9 10 11)
                Born: 05 JAN 1781 in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT (12 13)
                Died: 26 MAY 1865 (14 15)
             Spouses: Laura

Footnotes

  1. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 4933.
  2. Ibid., 4933.
  3. Ibid., 4923.
  4. Ibid., 4919.
  5. Ibid., 4923.
  6. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 657.
  7. Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, 86.
    French, William, died July 31, 1823, age 19 yrs.
    French, Washington, son of Walter & Laura, died Sept 14, 1821, age 5 weeks.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan86.html.]
  8. 1850 Westville, New Haven, CT Census.
    Laborer.
  9. 1860 New Haven Census.
  10. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 825.
    ... Walter French, at Humphreysville, a local Methodist preacher, made augers, and is believed to have been the first auger maker in Connecticut.
  11. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 238.
    ... pioneer in the manufacture of screw auger bits ...
  12. Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), 4933.
  13. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 238.
  14. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 463.
    ... Walter French, a resident of Humphreysville, received license to exhort, and afterwards to preach, and became a useful minister; having a good memory, a ready utterance, and often spoke with great persuasive influence. He died in 1865, aged over eighty years.
  15. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 238.

Revised: 04-Dec-08
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