Thomas French

Bef 1584 - Bef 1639  (< 55 years)

• Name	Thomas French  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 11 Oct 1584  [3, 4, 5]
  Baptism	11 Oct 1584	Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 5 Nov 1639	Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Person ID	I19356	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JMF
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Jacob French,   b. Abt 1555   d. Bef 11 Nov 1615 (Age ~ 60 years)
  Mother	Susan Warren,   b. Abt 1555
  Marriage	27 Sep 1579	Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England   [3, 9]
  Family ID	F11658	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Susan Riddlesdale,   b. Bef 20 Apr 1584   d. Aug 1658, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 74 years)
  Marriage	5 Sep 1608	Assington, Suffolk, England   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10]
  Children	+ 1. Ensign Thomas French,   b. Bef 27 Nov 1608   d. 8 Aug 1680, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 71 years) + 2. Alice French,   b. Bef 9 Apr 1610   d. 26 Jun 1666, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 56 years) + 3. Dorcas French,   b. Bef 31 Jul 1614   d. 30 Dec 1697, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age > 83 years) + 4. Susan French,   b. Bef 22 Apr 1616   d. 21 Feb 1679, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 62 years) + 5. John French,   b. Bef 26 May 1622   d. 1 Feb 1698, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts (Age > 75 years)
  Family ID	F11657	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He and his wife emigrated and settled in Ipswich sometime not long before 25 Jul 1638, when a planting lot of Thomas French the elder is mentioned as a bound to land at the Reedy marsh. Four of their children preceded them to New England. Thomas and Alice almost certainly came with the Winthrop fleet in 1630, and Dorcas and Susan came together in 1633 or 1634, sent by Gov. John Winthrop's brother-in-law Thomas Gostlin to be servants in the Winthrop family. Dorcas became a maidservant in the elder Winthrop's household until she married Christopher Peake in 1637, and Susan served the younger John Winthrop's family for several years.

  
  

• Sources

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