"Ephraim (French), b. about 1643; he deposed that he was fifteen years old in 1658; admitted an inhabitant of Enfield, Conn., in 1687, but in 1690 there is an entry in the town book that his grant is to be forfeited 'if he come not'; he came, and in 1690 his nephew Richard French of Topsfield was induced to follow him, and, in return, for companionship and labor, became his uncle's heir; d. Sept., 1716, s. p."
