Person:Thomas French (1)
Ensign Thomas French
chr.27 Nov 1608 Assington, Suffolk, England
d.8 Aug 1680 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 5 Sep 1608
  1. Ensign Thomas French1608 - 1680
  2. Alice French1610 - 1666
  3. Dorcas French1614 - 1697
  4. Susan French1616 -
  5. Anne French1617 -
  6. Margaret French1619 -
  7. John French1622 - 1697
  8. Mary French1624 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Ensign Thomas French1608 - 1680
  • W.  Mary ScudamoreAbt 1598 - 1681
m. 1630/31
  1. Thomas French1629 -
  2. Sarah FrenchBet 1630 & 1631 - 1680
  3. Mary French1633/34 - 1719
  4. Corporal John FrenchCal 1635 - Est 1706
  5. Samuel FrenchEst 1641 - 1688
  6. Ephraim FrenchCal 1643 - 1716
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3] Ensign Thomas French
Gender Male
Christening[1] 27 Nov 1608 Assington, Suffolk, England
Marriage 1630/31 Boston, Lincolnshire, Englandto Mary Scudamore
Emigration[1] 1632
Residence[1] 1632 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 6 Nov 1632 Admitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay.
Residence[1] 1635 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Military[1] 1637 "Had service in the Pequot War."
Will[1][2] 3 Aug 1680 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Death[1][2][4] 8 Aug 1680 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Estate Inventory[1] 25 Aug 1680 £217 15s. 6d. including £150 in real estate.
Probate[1] 28 Sep 1680 Will proved.
References
  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 Thomas French, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    1:703-06.

    "ORIGIN: Assington, Suffolk."
    "OCCUPATION: Tailor. John Stratton writes from Boston under date of 17 March 1633/4: 'I have put my sister a suit of mohair to making at Goodman French's. She were best get the tailor to take her measure and send per Jno. Gallop' (WP 3:157]. Thomas French's inventory included eleven yards of homemade cloth.
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admitted to Boston church as member #128, which would be no later than mid-1632 [BChR 14]; on 27 January 1638/9 'our brother Thomas French was with the consent of the congregation dismissed to the church of Ipswich' [BChR 22].
    FREEMAN: 6 November 1632 [MBCR 1:367]."
    "BIRTH: Baptized Assington, Suffolk, 27 November 1608, son of Thomas and Susan (Riddlesdale) French [Dudley Wildes Anc 64]."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 French, in Davis, Walter Goodwin, Compiler, and Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts. Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting, in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia (plus Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor and His Descendants). (Baltimore, Maryland, United States: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996)
    1:578-83.

    Ensign Thomas French was in New England as early as 1637 when he was a soldier in the Pequot War. In 1672 he petitioned the colonial government for a grant of land northwest of Salisbury, in behalf of himself and eight other Ipswich men who had seen service in that campaign. … Thomas French's chief public activities were military and judicial. He was a subscriber to Major Dennison's compensation in 1648. He is called Sergeant French until 1664, and Ensign French henceforth. In 1664 he testified to the mutinous behavior of Samuel Hunt and others during the training of the Ipswich troop on Wolfpen plain. He served on the trial jury of the County Court in 1651, 1652, 1657-1660, 1662, 1664, 1669, 1672, 1674-1675, and 1678, and on a jury of inquest in 1676. He is listed as a voter in town affairs in 1679 and as a commoner in 1678. Ensign French died August 8,1680. His wife Mary survived until May 6, 1681.

  3. ↑ Thomas French, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    2:207-208.

    "Thomas (French), Boston 1631, had, I think, by w. Alice, Mary, bapt. 23 Sept. 1632, wh. d. soon, and Mary, again, 2 Mar. 1634, freem. 6 Nov. 1632, was dism. from Boston ch. 27 Jan. 1639 to that of Ipswich, whither he had gone 1634, prob. d. 1639. Perhaps he came in the Lion with John Winthrop, the Gov.'s.; for his name is on the list of the ch. bef. the use of dates betw. those of young W. and his w. Martha.

    Thomas (French), Ipswich 1638, then call. jr. may have been of ar. co. that yr. and freem. 1674."

    NOTE: Savage has two sketches for the same man. This man's father, who came later, was the Thomas French who died in 1639.

  4. ↑ Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts to End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1910, 1919)
    2:561.

    "French, Thomas, Ens., [died] Aug. 8, 1680. (court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court.)"

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