Dorcas French

Bef 1614 - 1697  (> 83 years)

• Name	Dorcas French
  Birth	Bef 31 Jul 1614  [1, 2]
  Baptism	31 Jul 1614	Assington, Suffolk, England   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Death	30 Dec 1697	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Person ID	I23247	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Thomas French,   b. Bef 11 Oct 1584   d. Bef 5 Nov 1639, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age < 55 years)
  Mother	Susan Riddlesdale,   b. Bef 20 Apr 1584   d. Aug 1658, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts (Age > 74 years)
  Marriage	5 Sep 1608	Assington, Suffolk, England   [1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Family ID	F11657	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Christopher Peake,   b. Bef 29 Apr 1607   d. 23 May 1666, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age > 59 years)
  Marriage	3 Jan 1637	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Children	+ 1. Jonathan Peake,   b. 17 Dec 1637, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F13983	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Griffin Crafts,   b. Abt 1603   d. 4 Oct 1689, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 86 years)
  Marriage	Aft 1679  [3, 4]
  Family ID	F24205	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  She was a maidservant to John Winthrop the elder. Her younger sister Susan, with whom she arrived in New England in 1633 or 1634, was a servant in the family of John Winthrop Jr.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1889] The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass., and Their Ancestors and Descendants by John William Linzee. Boston, 1913. [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. [S7769] Randy A. West, "The English Ancestry of Christopher1 Peake of Roxbury, Massachusetts. The American Genealogist 87:204, 2015. [S92] John B. Threlfall, "Thomas French of Assington, Suffolk, England, and Ipswich, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 142:250, 1988, and correction at 142:393, 1988. [S933] Fifty Great Migration Colonists of New England and Their Origins by John Brooks Threlfall. Madison, Wisconsin, 1990. [S1923] John Brooks Threlfall, "John Wyatt of Ipswich, Massachusetts and His Wife Mary (_____) Riddlesdale." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 143:213, July 1989. [S2005] The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes 1759-1820 of Topsfield, Massachusetts by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Anthoensen Press, 1959. [S2280] The Granberry Family and Allied Families, Including the Ancestry of Helen (Woodward) Granberry based on data compiled by and for Edgar Francis Waterman and compiled by Donald Lines Jacobus. Hartford, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman, 1945.