Kathy Leigh Saw your post about an Edward French of Ipswich and I have one of them mentioned in my genealogy. My great uncle compiled "Ancestors and Descendants of Samuel French the Joiner of Stratford Connecticut in 1939. He has pretty good detail from Samuel but it is very sketchy back then as to others, for your perusal I include the following excerpt from our genealogy: "Many of the errors found on pages 1204 and 1205 of the "History of Old Stratford" by [Rev. Samuel] Orcutt, may be corrected from the information herein given. Whether Orcutt or Mr. Benjamin L. Swan, his collaborator, was responsible for the errors, their's was a labor of love and much of value has been preserved. The first three generaltions given on page 1204, namely 1. Lieut. William French, who came in 1635 to Cambridge, Mass., in the good ship "Defence"; 2. Francis French of Milford and Derby, Conn.; 3. . Sergt. Samuel French of Stratford were not closely related. No evidence has been found that Francis of Milford and Derby was a son of Lieut. William. Sergt. Samuel French of Stratford was undoubtedly that Samuel son of Thomas and Deborah (Button) French of Guilford, Conn. born Aug. 21 1667 in Guilford. Orcutt gives nine of the eleven children of Samuel French, the joiner, as children of Samuel French, junior, of Stratford and grandchildren of Sergt. Samuel French. To this genealogical tragedy of errors several professional and amateur genealogists have contributed by stating that Lieut. William French of Cambridge was baptized in Halstead, Essex Co., England, March 15, 1602 and was descended, through three generations of the name of Thomas, from Thomas Frenche, the elder of Wethersfield, County Essex, England, who died in 1599. Yet Mrs. Elizabeth (French) Bartlett, descendent of Lieut. William French, and "Record Searcher in England for the Committee on English Research of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908-1917", published in New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Vol 65, pp. 284-286, proof that the William French who was baptized March 15, 1603, in Halstead, Essex Co., England, died in London in 1621, unmarried, and that his estate was administered by his brother, John, and sister Elianor. Probably the New England immigrants, Lt. William of Cambridge, John of Dorchester and Braintree, Edward of Ipswich, Thomas of Guilford and Francis of Milford and Derby were from the large French family of seafaring folk of County Suffolk, and may have been quite closely related, as these names were frequently found in Saxmundham and vicinity, in Suffolk, in the 17th century. Sorry for the length of the except - didn't want to take too much out of contect. Bill French