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Joseph French (1654–1683), son of Joseph French and Susanna Stacy
Sarah Eastman (1655–1745), daughter of Roger Eastman and Sarah Unknown
Joseph French was born on 16 March 1654 in Salisbury. [1] He died on 14 December 1683 in Salisbury. [2] He married Sarah Eastman on 13 June 1678 in Salisbury. [3][4]
Sarah Eastman was born on 25: 7m: 1655 in Salisbury. [5] She died on 1 December 1745. [6] She married second Solomon Shepherd on 4 August 1684 in Salisbury. [3]
Sarah is referred to as Sarah Shepherd in her father's will of 6 June 1691. She contested the proceedings on 5 May 1703. [8]
Joseph died intestate, leaving his wife and three young children—Joseph, Timothy and Samuel[!]. The inventory of Joseph's estate was presented and administration was granted to the widow Sarah on 25 March 1684, who did not post a bond. On 29 July 1684, when she was about to remarry, her father-in-law Joseph French and her father Roger Eastman petitioned the court to require that Sarah post a bond and to appoint guardians for her young children. On 30 September 1684 the court ordered that the widow of Joseph French, Sr. of Salisbury, together with her new husband Solomon Shepherd, were bound for administration of Joseph's estate. The children were to be maintained without disposing of the land. The court ordered the grandfather Joseph French and Sarah's brother Benjamin Eastman to be guardians of the children. [9]
Children of Joseph French and Sarah Eastman:
i. Joseph French was born on 25 or 26 March 1679 in Salisbury. He married Abigail Browne.
ii. Timothy French was born on 16 June 1681 in Salisbury. [1] He might be the Timothy who died on 8 May 1742 in Salisbury or the Timothy who died on 19 June 1745 in Salisbury. [2] He married Mary Harriman of Haverhill after 16 December 1704 (intention) in Salisbury. [3] Mary, the widow of Timothy, died on 12 January 1748 in Salisbury. [2]
Timothy was a weaver and a husbandman. [10]
Timothy, May 8, 1742
iii. Simon French was born on 26 August 1683 in Salisbury. [1] Simon, referred to as "of Kingston" married Sarah Heard on 24 November 1709 in Salisbury. [3]
Simon was a cordwainer and a husbandman. [10] He was a resident of Kingston, New Hampshire in 1708 and 1747. [10]
Children of Solomon Shepherd and Sarah Eastman:
iv. Sarah Shepherd was born on 25 March 1686. [11] She married William Long. [11]
v. Bethiah Shepherd was born on 13 March 1688. [11] She married Joseph Kimball. [11]
vi Solomon Shepherd was born on 15 April 1691. [11]
vii. Israel Shepherd was born on 7 March 1693. [11] He was baptized on 6 May 1694. [11] He or Jeremiah married Sarah Kimball on 27 August 1724. [11] Sarah, the daughter of John and Hannah (Gould) Kimball, was born on 15 November 1700 in Amesbury. [11]
viii. Jeremiah Shpherd was born on 10 August 1698. [11]
References:
1. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 104–12.
2. Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1915), 563–6.
3. Vital Records of Salisbury, 335–8.
4. George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, digitized volumes (Salem Witch Project: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project : http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/Essex/index.html), 7:102.
5. Vital Records of Salisbury, 75–8.
6. Lucius Root Eastman, "Genealogy of the Eastman Family," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 21 (1867): 229–37.
7. Vital Records of Salisbury, 478. Sarah is referred to as "the widow [torn] French."
8. "Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1631–1881," database with images, AmericanAncestors, 8489.
9. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9:202, 332–3.
10. Carol Clark Johnson, A Genealogical History of the Clark and Worth Families (n.p.: privately printed, 1970: 181–3.
11. Guy S. Rix, History and Genealogy of the Eastman Family of America (Concord: Ira C. Evans, 1901): 13.
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