Capt. William French

Abt 1604 - 1681  (~ 77 years)

• Name	William French  [1]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	Abt 1604	of Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Nov 1681	Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Person ID	I22988	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2023

  
  

  Marriage	3 Jul 1603	Bures St. Mary, Suffolk, England   [3]
  Family ID	F22880	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Mary Lathrop,   b. 4 Oct 1640, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts d. Aft 1734 (Age > 95 years)
  Marriage	6 May 1669	Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [3, 4, 5, 6, 8]
  Children	1. Hannah French,   b. 25 Jan 1676, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 2 Jan 1766 (Age 89 years)   2. Sarah French,   b. 29 Oct 1671, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. Between 8 Jul 1727 and 29 Dec 1727, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 55 years)
  Family ID	F13845	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2023

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth   d. 31 Mar 1668, Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Marriage	Bef 1623  [3]
  Children	1. Sarah French,   b. Mar 1638, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F13984	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Apr 2023

  
  

• Notes

  He arrived in Massachusetts in 1635 on the Defence, along with his wife Elizabeth and his children Francis, Elizabeth, Marie, and John. At the time of his emigration he was a servant to Roger Harlakenden (b. 1611). Said to have been the first representative of Billerica to the General Court in 1666.

  
  

• Sources

  [S5307] Simon Crosby the Emigrant: His English Ancestry, and Some of His American Descendants by Eleanor Davis Crosby. Boston: Geo. H. Ellis, 1914. [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. [S6881] Kory L. Meyerink, "The English Origins and Family of Brothers William1 French and John1 French of Cambridge, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177:31, Winter 2023. [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. [S692] The Scott Genealogy by Mary Lovering Holman. Boston: 1919. [S505] A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in This Country by E. B. Huntington. Ridgefield, CT: J. M. Huntington, 1884., date only. [S3036] Richard Hawes of Dorchester, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants by Frank Mortimer Hawes. Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1932. [S756] Early New England Families Study Project: Accounts of New England Families from 1641 to 1700 by Alicia Crane Williams. Online database, New England Historic Genealogical Society.