Thomas French, Ill, of Ipswich

Thomas French

• Birth: ABT 1635 in Boston, Suffolk, MA [10]
• Death: 1711 in Ipswich, MA [Nancy L. Dodge]
• Parents: Thomas French , Jr. b: BEF 27 NOV 1608 in Assington, Suffolk, England {Parish Record} and Mary
• Spouse: Mary Adams - married 28 FEB 1659 at Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Family

https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/152726/I11607/thomas-french/individual

Marriage

Mary Adams was born 1643 in England, or in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She married Thomas French on 28 FEB 1659 in Ipswich, Essex, MA [10]. She was the daughter of William Adams.

Children of Mary Adams and Thomas French:

1. Thomas French b: 30 NOV 1661 in Ipswich, Essex, MA. Died young.
2. Mary French b: 9 MAR 1663 in Ipswich, Essex, MA. Married John Stiles.
3. Thomas French b: 21 MAY 1666 in Ipswich, Essex, MA. Married Elizabeth Belcher.
4. Abigail French b: 27 JUN 1668. Died 17 OCT 1703.
5. Hannah French b: 30 JAN 1671 in Ipswich, MA [Ipswich VRs--R. Rhodes]
6. William French b: 30 NOV 1673 in Ipswich, Essex, MA [HDF].
7. Hester French b: 2 JAN 1677 in Ipswich, Essex, MA

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/French-505

Thomas French died intestate around January 1710/11. On the 11th of that month, his widow Mary and son Thomas were granted letters of administration under their own bond, and inventory was taken by John Denison and Jonathan Lumas (Loomis).[1]

In 1687, he was constable in Ipswich and took an active part in the rebellion against the tax policy of Gov. Andros under the leadership of Appleton and Rev. John Wise. He was arrested September 15, 1687, arraigned on September 21, and sentenced to pay a fine of 15 shillings, give a bond of 500 shillings for good behavior, and be ineligible to hold public office. [citation needed]

On 7 December 1714, Thomas French of Ipswich, William French of "Exetor", Jno. Styles of Boxford and Esther French of Ipswich agreed to mutually support their mother Mary of Ipswich, who was "grown into years and incapable of maintaining herself,"[2] and on the 17th Thomas French, William French, John Styles in right of Mary his wife and Esther French agreed on a division of the estate.[3]

Notes

Note: Brian Berry [10]: M. Mary Adams on 28 Feb. 1658/9 at Ipswich. Age given as 22 in Dec. 1658 and 32 in Feb. 1666/7. Served in Narragansett campaign in 1676/6.

Records

Vital records of Ipswich, births - FRENCH
https://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/aBirthsF.shtml

1. Thomas, s. Thomas, Nov. 30, 1661. CTR
2. Mary, d. Thomas, Mar. 9, 1662. CTR
3. Thomas, s. Thomas, May 21, 1666. CTR
4. Abigaill, d. Thomas, June 27, 1668. CTR
5. Hanah, d. Thomas, Jan. 30, 1670. CTR
6. William, s. Thomas, Nov. 30, 1673. CTR
7. Hester, d. Thomas, Jan. 2, 1676. CTR

CTR = court record, Essex Co. Quarterly Court

• Thomas French
• Birth: 1636 Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• Death: unknown
• THOMAS, 4th child of Thomas & Mary French, was born about 1636 (deposed aged 22 in 1656, deposed aged "about forty-seven" in March 1683, deposed aged "about forty-eight" about March 1684). He married at Ipswich 29 February 1659/60, Mary Adams.
• Family links:
• Parents:
• Thomas French (1608 - 1680)
• Mary Scudamore French (____ - 1681)
• Siblings:
• Mary French (1632 - ____)*
• Mary French Smith (1634 - 1719)*
• Thomas French (1636 - ____)
• Sarah French (1638 - ____)*
• Samuel French (1641 - 1688)*
• Ephraim French (1645 - 1716)*
• Burial: Unknown
• Find A Grave Memorial# 54698645
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54698645

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• ADAMS, Mary
• b. ABT 1638 Cambridge, Middlesex, Mass.
• d. 6 MAY 1681 Ipswich, Essex, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: ADAMS, William
• Mother: WALFORD, Frances
• Family:
• Marriage: 28 FEB 1658/9 Ipswich, Essex, Mass.
• Spouse: FRENCH, Thomas
• b. ABT 1633 Ipswich, Essex, Mass.
• d. 14 DEC 1710 Ipswich, Essex, Mass.
• Parents:
• Father: FRENCH, Thomas
• Mother: SCUDAMORE, Mary
• Children:
  • FRENCH, Michael
  • FRENCH, Thomas
  • FRENCH, Abigail b. 27 JUN 1668 Ipswich, Essex, Mass.
  • FRENCH, Hannah b. 30 JAN 1669/70 Ipswich, Essex, Mass.
  • FRENCH, William
  • FRENCH, Hester b. 2 JAN 1675/6 Ipswich, Essex, Mass.
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_63b.htm#32

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• Specific Ancestral Lines of the Boaz, Paul, Welty & Fishel Families By Adrienne Boaz
• https://books.google.com/books?id=zzjxBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA528&lpg=PA528&d...
• Pg.402 is not part of this book preview.
• .... The ships departed on March 29, 1630, and arrived at the New World in a staggered fashion, as the first ships landed on June 12, and the last to arrive, the Success, anchored at Salem Harbor on July 6, 1630 BA11. Of the seven hundred passengers, only seventy names were recorded by John Winthrop, and Thomas French was not among the list BA11.
• Nevertheless, Thomas was a freeman in the colony on November 6, 1632 AN3, LI3, BE6, and became the 128th member AN3 of the First Church of Boston .... etc.
• He was a tailor BE7, AN3, LI3 but he was also a sergeant .... etc.
• He moved to Ipswich, Massachusetts after living in Boston for approximately six or seven years; .... etc.
• .... Thomas created his will on August 3, 1680 TH28, AN3, and he died five days later on August 8, 1680 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts MA26, AN3, LI3, DA12. A copy of his will stated TH28:
  • .... etc.
• Pg.405 is not part of this book preview.
• Pg.406
• Mary Scudamore (William, Margery) was born at Tedgewood, Upton Bishop, Hereford, England SK1 by the year 1598 or 1599, because her father died in December 1598 BE6. This indicates that she was at least ten years older than her husband, if the assumption that Thomas was baptized shortly after his birth is correct.
• She was the mother of a daughter named Mary, born September 1632 in Boston, but this child did not live very long AN3, BE6. She was also the mother of another daughter named Mary, sons, John, Thomas, Samuel, and Ephraim, and of Sarah French, who in September 1656 accused Hackaliah Bridges of impregnating her (AN3, AN6, BE6, DO13. Hackaliah Bridges was the son of Edmund Bridges (see page 495). In a deposition given by Thomas French on December 23, 1658, Thomas stated that he was twenty-two years old, and in another deposition dated December 30, 1658, Ephraim was said to have been about fifteen years old DO13. Her son, Thomas, may have been the Thomas French who served in King Philip's War under Captain Samuel Appleton; this Thomas was mentioned in lists of men, one of which was dated June 24, 1676, which included Jonathan Emery (see page 283) and Mosses Pengrie BO2.
• Brian J.L. Berry, in his work "Was Mary French a Scudamore?" and Warren Skidmore, in his work, "Mary Scudamore (ca 1598-1681), Wife of Thomas French of Ipswich, Massachusetts; An Old Debate Newly Resolved" present evidence for their argument that Mary French was the daughter of William Scudamore. A brief synopsis of these two articles follows, which together entail three key points, but a great portion of Brian Berry's rationale involves the interrelationship of individuals of several families, specifically with regard to property in Upton Bishop; a summation of his article is insufficient and for this reason should be read independently.
• Firstly the pedigree of William Scudamore V was documented by Thomas May in The Visitation of the County of Gloucester, 1682-1683, and this pedigree stated that the daughter of William Scudamore was "Mary wife of ____ French of Boston in New England" MA36.
• Secondly, Mary's brother, William Scudamore IV of Gloucester (who ws the father of the aforementioned William V), created his will on November 14, 1636 BE6, SK1, and in this will he mentioned his sister BE6:
  • I William Scudamore of The Citty of Gloucester... I doe give unto all the nowe children of Mary French my sister, to each of them five pounds apeace to be paid att their severall ages of one and twenty yeares.
• There were three men named Thomas French in the Boston area in the 1600s: two of them were the subjects of biographies in this book, and
• Pg.407
• another married a woman named Mary Button and relocated to Guilford, Connecticut BE6. Another man, Stephen French of Weymouth, Massachusetts, was married to a woman named Mary, but they had just begun to have children circa 1635 (their first child was said to have been born about that year) AN3. In his will, William Scudamore IV used the word "children", as opposed to "child", and so it is doubtful that Mary, the wife of Stephen French, was William's sister. This essentially leaves just Mary, the wife of Thomas French, who must have been the sister of William Scudamore IV BE6, SK1.
• Lastly, property transactions in Upton Bishop, England link William Scudamore III with Isabel Redverne in Ipswich, then to the Pengry brothers in both Ipswich and Gloucester, then later still to William Scudamore V, who owned the Manor of Bishop's Upton and purchased "Tedswood" in 1679/80 BE6. William Scudamore III purchased two farms in Upton Bishop, Herefordshire, England; one was called Tedgewood (also known as Testwood or Tedswood) and the other was called Thornes BE6. Later, at least part of Tedgewood was owned by Isabell Redverne of Ispwich, Massachusetts, and in her will created in 1650, she bestowed shares of the farms to Moses and Aaron Pengry BE6 (Pingry TH31), also of Ipswich BE6, TH31. These two Pengry brothers requested that their brother, Thomas (who lived in Gloucester, England), control the farm operations AS1:
  • .... etc.
• The argument that Mary French was the daughter of William Scudamore III, then, can be concluded in this fashion: the daughter of William Scudamore III was referred to as Mary French of Boston, and the sister of William Scudamore IV of Gloucester was referred to as Mary French, who had more than one child in 1636. Thomas and Mary French were acquainted with the Pengry brothers because the Pengry brothers and the French family resided in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Moses and Aaron Pengry had ties back to
• Pg.408
• Upton Bishop and Gloucester in England, and the Scudamore family had already been associated with those areas. Finally, Giles Lye was the cousin of William Scudamore V and the brother-in-law of Thomas Pengry, which firmly links those two families. _____________
• THOMAS FRENCH IS APPARENTLY IS GIVEN THE WRONG DEATH DATE HERE?
• Thomas French1
• M, #162733, b. circa 1635, d. 14 December 1661
• Father Thomas French1 b. 27 Nov 1608, d. 8 Aug 1680
• Mother Mary Scudamore1 b. c 1595, d. 6 May 1681
• Thomas French was born circa 1635 at of Ipswich, Essex, MA.1 He married Mary Adams, daughter of William Adams and Elizabeth Kemp, on 29 February 1660 at Ipswich, Essex, MA.1,2 Thomas French died on 14 December 1661 at Ipswich, Essex, MA.1
• Family Mary Adams b. c 1638, d. c 1676
• Child
  • Michael French+1 b. c 1661, d. c 1719
• Citations
• [S11597] Ancestry.com, Submitted by iankate2.
• [S14] Unknown author, New England Marriages Prior to 1700, by Clarence Almon Torrey., p. 285.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p5418.htm#...

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Origins

Children of Thomas French and Mary:

1. Mary, bp Boston 23 Sep 1632; d soon
2. Mary, bp Boston 2 Mar 1633/4; m by 1657 Robert Smith
3. John, b abt 1635; m by 1657 Phebe Keyes, dau of Robert Keyes
4. Thomas, b abt 1636; m Ipswich 29 Feb 1659/60 Mary Adams
5. Sarah, b abt 1638; on 30 Sep 1656 "Hackaliah Bridges, accused by Sarah French of his getting her with child..." if she was a dau of Thomas French, she apparently died without issue prior to 1680 as she is not named in his will.
6. Samuel, b abt 1641; convicted for fornication 26 Mar 1667; d Ipswich 1688, apparently unmarried.
7. Ephraim, b abt 1643; d Enfield CT Sept 1716, unmarried.

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References

1. “Thomas French” in the New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635. Page 703 - < AncestryImage >; Page 709 (Family) < AncestrySharing >
2. French Family Association: The Official Website of the Surname French. Chart #1, Thomas French, 1584, Assington, Suffolk, England. Ipswich, Essex Co., MA. < link >
3. “Three French Daughters and Their Husbands: Three Unrecorded Marriages from Early Ipswich, Massachusetts. Amy (French) Gage, Susan (French) Kingsbury, and Anne (French) Hardy.” Melinde Lutz Byrne and John Edward Hardy. NEHGR, 2021. (document attached)
4. https://wc.rootsweb.com/trees/152726/I11607/thomas-french/individual
5. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/French-505 cites
   1. Essex County, Massachusetts, probate records and indexes 1638-1916. Old Series : Probate records, vols. 309-310, Book 9-10, 1705-1713,image 373, citing Essex 310:301. < FamilySearch >
   2. Probate record, estate of Thomas French. Agreement between the children of Thomas French to support their mother Mary, 1714. case 10191:7. Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.) < AmericanAncestors >
   3. Essex County, Massachusetts, probate records and indexes 1638-1916. Old Series : Probate records, vols. 311-312, Book 11-12, 1713-1719, image 115, citing Essex 311:207. < FamilySearch >
   4. Hugh Darrell Miller, comp., "Ethel Peters Miller / Hugh Darrell Miller," manuscript dated 1985.