Thomas French Jr1

#2793, (2 November 1689 - 26 July 1759)
Relationship1st cousin 7 times removed of William David Lewis
Father*Thomas French1 (1657 - 1733)
Mother*Mary Catlin1 (c 1664 - 1703/4)

Family

Joanna Field b. 1693
Children 1.Mary French8 (1719 - )
 2.Freedom1 French8 (1720/21 - 1727)
 3.Abigail1 French8 (1724 - 1727)
 4.Thomas1 French8 (1726 - 1727)
 5.Freedom French8 (1730 - )
 6.Thomas French8 (1732 - )
 7.Abigail French8 (1735 - )
 8.Joanna French8 (1740 - )
Birth*2 November 1689He was born on 2 November 1689 at Deerfield, Massachusetts.1 
29 February 1703/4He was captured in the Deerfield Raid on 29 February 1703/4 at Massachusetts, and returned by Ens. Sheldon in 1706; Deerfield French and Indian raid.2,3,4,5 
29 February 1703/4He was captured in the Deerfield raid, returned before Sept. 5, 1707; probably redeemed by Ens. Sheldon on 29 February 1703/4 at Massachusetts.1 
Marriage*11 June 1713He married Joanna Field, daughter of Capt. Joseph Field and Joanna Wyatt, on 11 June 1713 at Massachusetts.1,6 
Death*26 July 1759He died on 26 July 1759 at Massachusetts at age 69.7 

Citations

  1. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 2 (Deerfield: E.A. Hall and Co., 1896), p. 167-8.
  2. [S1512] John Williams, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (Boston: Samuel Hall, 1795). Reprinted Springfield, Mass.: H. R. Huntting Co., 1908, pp. 171-172. Hereinafter cited as Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion.
  3. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (Greenfield, Mass.: E.A. Hall and Co., 1895), 308, 309. Has Henry Nims as age 12. He was 22.
  4. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, p. 304-05.
  5. [S1230] Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760. Two volumes (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925).
  6. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Deerfield Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1920), p. 187.
  7. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, p. 284, "in his 69th y."
  8. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield II, p. 168. See also Vital Records of Deerfield, p. 62.