This is just a reminder to anyone who has been researching John and Grace French of Braintree, that an excellent source of connections for related Chart #5 families can be found online at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dyer/french.htm The cited references have been an invaluable source to me in making other family connections, but I squinted over the Sprague microfilm at the NEHGS before Frank Dyer made the info available on line. Here is an excerpt from Frank Dyer's (The New England Dyer Connection) site: "Home to the "Genealogies of the Families of Braintree, Ma." 1640-1850 by Waldo Chamberlain Sprague(NEHGS) This micro-film was compiled by Waldo Chamberlain Sprague of Wollaston (Quincy), Mass. and includes families from 1640-1850 from "old" BRAINTREE and the modern towns of RANDOLPH, HOLBROOK and QUINCY after the separation from Braintree in 1792-3. The original hand written records by Sprague were put on 6,196 5x8" index cards and they were micro-filmed. This micro-film is one of the most asked for at the N.E.H.G.S. in Boston and also at the Quincy, Mass. Hist. Society. I have copied to Word Perfect "ALL" cards and made an index which consists of over 33,000 "GIVEN" names which has been sent to the New England Historic Genealogical Society to publish this collection in a CD format (SOMEDAY!!!) ============ "Vital Records of Braintree, Massachusetts 1640-1793 Edited by Samuel A. Bates 1886 Braintree Births 1640-1793 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Surname Given Gender Birth Date Father Mother Page Errata, Comments French Anna F Jan 15 1687/88 John Experience 665 French Dependance M 07m 01d 1648 John Grace 634 Ffrench French Elizabeth F 07m 29d 1655 John Grace 634 French John M Sep 20 1686 John Experience 664 French John M Mar 10 1688/89 Dependance Rebecka 665 French Mary F Mar 30 1684 Dependence Mary 662 French Samuel M 12m 22d 1659 John Grace 642 French Samuel M 07m 13d 1688 Samuel Hannah 665 French Temperance F 01m 30d 1651 John Grace 634 French Thomas M Jul 10 1643 * John Grace 634 * Sprague French William M 01m 31d 1653 John Grace 634 ==========