Hello Morgana, Would you happen to have a living male with the surname of French from this line who could do the DNA test. We are trying to test all the lines of early NJ to sort them out. Julia French Wood (Not the Julia who changed the story) <g> In a message dated 3/1/2007 2:40:20 PM Central Standard Time, morgana08037@comcast.net writes: My grandfather was Thomas E. French' His lineage goes back to the infant, Thomas E. French born in 1776. William French attempted to sail as loyalist out of Long Island to Barbados where he had property and family; when a storm wrecked the ship off New Gretna/Tucherton (Julia changed the story to fit her aspirations for patriotism). Because Thomas E. French was one of the originally founders of the West Jersey colony, he had already contacts down here. Here they stayed until now. MORGANA