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]
  Siblings	4 siblings
  + 1. Ensign Thomas French ,   b. Bef 27 Nov 1608   d. 8 Aug 1680, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age > 71 years) ▻ Mary ,  m. Bef 1632 + 2. Alice French ,   b. Bef 9 Apr 1610   d. 26 Jun 1666, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age > 56 years) ▻ Thomas Howlet ,  m. Bef 1637 + 3. Dorcas French ,   b. Bef 31 Jul 1614   d. 30 Dec 1697, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts  (Age > 83 years) ▻ Christopher Peake ,  m. 3 Jan 1637 + 4. Susan French ,   b. Bef 22 Apr 1616   d. 21 Feb 1679, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age > 62 years) ▻ Henry Kingsbury + 5. John French ,   b. Bef 26 May 1622   d. 1 Feb 1698, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts  (Age > 75 years) ▻ Freedom Kingsley ,  m. Abt 1654
  Person ID	I23247	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2021

  
  

  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, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
  Family ID	F11657	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Christopher Peake,   b. Abt 1612   d. 23 May 1666, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 54 years)
  Marriage	3 Jan 1637	Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Jonathan Peake,   b. 17 Dec 1637, Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F13983	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2019

  
  

• 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. [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.