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From: "Melissa Alexander" <>
Subject: RE: [MDSTMARY-L] Martin French b. Galway, Ireland
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 19:49:53 -0700
In-Reply-To: <397B9334.14B904C4@erols.com>


Thanks for the info. Not all French's are related-since French was often
given to families from France who settled in the British Isles. I have no
idea which line the VA Daniel French is tied to-a question for the French
list!

Melissa Thompson Alexander
Edmonds, WA USA


-----Original Message-----
From: diana rock [mailto:]
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2000 5:52 PM
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Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY-L] Martin French b. Galway, Ireland

Chip,
I live on Mason Neck, VA just south of Mt. Vernon. The Geo. Mason
Plantation, Gunston
Hall is on this Mason Neck peninsula. We are directly across the Potomac
River from
Mattawoman Creek, in Chas. Co., MD. I am a minor archivist for very local
history
(its all in my attic) and the FRENCH family, along with the Masons &
Washingtons were
prominent families locally in the mid 1700's. Daniel FRENCH is mentioned in
a book by
Beth Mitchell, titled Beginning at the White Oak. There is also a large map
of the
period that accompanies it. There is also a book by Mary Edith Sprouse
called,
Colchester, Colonial Port on the Potomac.
I purchased both at the Fairfax County Gov't Center in their book store.
Daniel
FRENCH was also on the vestry at (Ibelieve)Pohick Church. I believe there
are FRENCHs
buried in the Pohick Church Cemetery. It is located in Lorton on the corner
of Rte. 1
& Telegraph Rds. He was definitely on vestry of the Truro Parish in the
area. Geo.
Mason & Geo. Washington were also. He did a lot of trading at the town of
Colchester,
also here on Mason Neck. Colchester had a couple of devastating fires in
colonial
times, so there is really nothing of the old town left but a lot of history
&
archaeology.
I don't know where you live, but it is definitely worth your while to come
to Fairfax
City, VA and make 2 stops. One at the Gov't Center to check out the local
historical
publications (not a big selection but will have what you are looking for)
and then to
the VA Room at the main branch library in Fairfax City.
As a native Marylander, now living 'on the other (VA) shore' I have come to
find so
much traversing across the Potomac throughout history.
Check it out...good luck.
Diana Langley Rock

Chip White wrote:

> Linda,
> I always thought the FRENCH family of Fairfax Co., VA, came from Southern
MD.
> My wife was raised next door to Mt. Vernon on the old FRENCH property
that
> bordered Mt.Vernon. At 19 I was care taker of the Bryant Masion 126a. on
the
> Potomac (Douge Creek) which was on the South border of the property.
Before they
> chopped up the property for housing, they did a study on the estate...I
had to show
> the group anround the property and thats how I learned of the FRENCH
family. Their
> are still Fairfax and French families living around the City of Fairfax
according
> to a clerk at the Loyd House (genealogy) library in Alexandria last year.
> Chip
> Reno wrote:
>
> > I've never heard of a son named Francis. Do you have anything else on
him?
> >
> > You state that Mary French d. 8/21/1724. I have nothing on that either.
Could
> > you fill me in?
> >
> > Robert Thompson d. in St. Mary's Co.
> >
> > I have that Charles Daft was born before 1650.
> >
> > And I have that Martin French, son of James m. Mary Brown, dau. of Peter
Brown
> > who d. 1758 (this according to Mary Louise Donnelly).
> >
> > Linda Reno
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Anyone know anything more about this Martin French line that went to
St.
> > > Mary's Co., MD?
> > >
> > > Francine Conn Halter
> > > ===
> > > Descendants of Martin French
> > >
> > > 1 Martin French b: in Galway, Ireland
> > > 2 James French b: 1650 in Galway, Ireland d: Bet. March
18 1733
> > > - 1734 in St. Mary's Co., MD
> > > ...... +Elizabeth Meekin
> > > ...... 3 Francis French b: Bet. 1640 - 1675 d: Aft. 1685
> > > ...... 3 [1] Mary French b: Bet. 1665 - 1670 in St. Mary's Co., MD
> > > d: August 21, 1724 in St. Mary's Co., MD
> > > .......... +Robert Thompson b: Bet. 1640 - 1665 in Kirkfenton,
> > > Yorkshire, England or Maryland m: Bef. 1685 in St. Mary's
Co., MD
> > > d: Bef. November 01, 1697 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel Co.
or St.
> > > Mary's Co., MD
> > > ...... *2nd Husband of [1] Mary French:
> > > .......... +Thomas Cissell b: Bet. 1662 - 1664 in Newtown Hundred
of St.
> > > Mary's Co., MD m: Abt. 1698 d: Bef. March 28, 1701 in
St.
> > > Mary's Co., MD
> > > ...... *3rd Husband of [1] Mary French:
> > > .......... +Charles Daft b: Abt. 1680 m: Abt. 1701 in St.
Mary's
> > > Co., MD d: Abt. April 22, 1721 in St. Mary's Co., MD
> > > ...... 3 Martin French b: Bef. 1682 in St. Mary's Co., MD d:
April
> > > 04, 1716 in St. Mary's Co., MD
> > > .......... +Mary d: Bef. 1716

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