John French

Abt 1635 - 1706  (~ 71 years)

• Name	John French  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	Abt 1635	of Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts   [4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Abt 1637  [6]
  Death	25 Jan 1706  [6]
  Alternate death	Between 5 Mar 1706 and 25 Jan 1707  [7]
  Person ID	I33734	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2022

  
  

  Father	Ensign Thomas French,   b. Bef 27 Nov 1608   d. 8 Aug 1680, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 71 years)
  Mother	Mary   d. 6 May 1681, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 1632	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [8, 9]
  Family ID	F19882	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Phebe Keyes,   b. 17 Jun 1639, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 13 May 1701, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1664  [3, 10, 11]
  Children	+ 1. Sarah French,   b. 1 Mar 1665, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts d. Aft 20 Jan 1713 (Age > 48 years)
  Family ID	F19880	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Mar 2022

  
  

• Notes

  According to Walter Goodwin Davis (citation details below), "John founded the French family of Topsfield and built the house which is the nucleus of the fine French-Andrews house near the Nerburyport turnpike."

  
  

• Sources

  [S3421] Vital Records of Topsfield, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1903. [S2005] The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes 1759-1820 of Topsfield, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1959. [S6265] Randy A. West, Robert Battle, and Robert Charles Anderson, "The English Connection of Robert1 Keyes of Watertown and Newbury, Massachusetts, and John1 Swett of Newbury." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 176:5, Winter 2022. [S3311] The Ancestry of Lieut. Amos Towne, 1737-1793, of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1927., place only. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., date only, from GMB entry for Thomas French. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990. [S5386] Carrie C. Edgett, "John French of Topsfield, Mass., and Some of His Descendants." Historical Collections of the Topsfield Historical Society 13:153, 1908. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., year only. [S5870] Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy, "Three French Daughters and Their Husbands: Three Unrecorded Marriages from Early Massachusetts, Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 175:104, 2021. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011., date given in entry for Robert Keyes. Earlier entry for Thomas French says "by 1657". [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990., "about 1660".