Mary FRENCH

Alternative birth 22 Mar 1634/1635. W.G. Davis 1927, The Ancestry of Lieut. Amos Towne 1737-1793 of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine, pp. 26 and 50. She survived her husband, dying about 1719. GenServe files, 23 Jul 1998: ILIFTO1; SHUO6JA; ALDB7KB; CANC6GA; CRAA6HB; and SMIA7MT. 1684 and 1719 dates both cited for death -- which is correct? Jen Herron, 6 Nov 2000, post to GenForum Smith Family Genealogy Forum. Died 1719. From the "selvage1" database at WorldConnectns. BIRTH: The suggest birthdate of Mary French as being 2 Mar 1633 is questionable, due to the fact that the previous child of Thomas French and Mary Scudamore also named Mary and her stated birthdate being 2 Sep 1632. That is only 6 months apart. What makes this more difficult to determine is the fact that the Puritans of this time period used the Julian Calendar and did not use month names to identify the month (ie, May or Jun). To complicate things even more the new year did not begin until around Mar, so the 1st month of 1632 was not Jan 1632 but rather Mar 1632. So if the 1st Mary French was born in the 8th month (Sep) then she really was born in around Nov 1632. So PLEASE do not accept these dates as being factual unless you refer to the original documents and recalculate from the Julian calendar to the Georgian calendar. No date can be completely trustworth before 1752 when the Georgian calendare was made the universal standard, unless both Julian and Georgain dates are listed. DEATH: According to Claire Dietz database, Mary French, died 22 Mar 1683/84 in Topsfield, Essex Co., Massachussets. Again, further research is needed to resolve the conflicting data. (MHJ - 8/26/02) Since this is a work in progress, please do not assume that all the information contained is correct. If you feel that some information that I have listed is inaccurate, please feel free to contact me and I will be more than happy to update the information - Matthew H. Jeffers.

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