The source set forth below theorizes that the John FRENCH, a mason who died in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, NJ in 1713, had moved there from Cambridge, Middlesex County, MA. Is there any merit to this theory? * * * Monnette, Orra Eugene, First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey, Los Angeles, CA: The Leroy Carman Press, 1932, part 4, p. 267: JOHN FRENCH (Vide, ante, PART ONE, p. 98.) First Settler of W. [Woodbridge]. He was there, 1670, or before, called "a mason," (ARCH., Vol. XXI, p. 15). In 1687, he was of Staten Island, called the same, (idem, p. 205; and Vol. XXIII, p. 28), and had a wife, SUSANNAH, as in 1688, when they were witnesses to the will of THOMAS BARTLETT of "Barcla's (BARTLETT) Point over against Perth Amboy." (idem, p. 22). Myles Forster, then of N. Y. was the heir, suggesting kinship. Apparently allied, in the same records, sev. ref. are RICHARD FRENCH, and THOMAS FRENCH of BURLINGTON, bef. 1700. In 1709-10, JOHN FRENCH and wife, ANNE, (err. for Susannah), were in the recs. at W., (vide, ante, PART ONE, p. 91), for (idem, p. PART TWO, p. 268), JOHN FRENCH, Jr. Aug. 4, 1705, m. MARY BOWNE, (dau. of Judge James Bowne, and) sister of ELIZABETH, who m. JUDGE HENRY FREEMAN, (vide, ante, this PART, p. supra). Children: Susanna, b. June 11, 1706; William, b. Jan. 15, 1707; Mary, b. June 4, 1710; Sarah, b. Nov. 25, 1712, et al., (as later W. recs. show). A sister to the last above, JOHN FRENCH, Jr., was Anne, who m. June 29, 1711, JAMES LEITH, (vide, ante, PART THREE, pp. 249, 256-7), and dau., Margaret, b. Feb. 6, 1712-3. From will, (ARCH., Vol. XXIII, p. 173), of JOHN FRENCH, of W., dated 1711-2, January 31, proved Mar. 20, 1713, wife, Susannah, it is very evident that he was the father of the last above, "Anne, wife of James Leith," and Richard, with JOHN FRENCH, Jr., (supra), omitted from the will. It also appears from the same and similar parallels that John French, Sr. was a son of the first RICHARD FRENCH, of N. J., of which there is important genealogy, (AM. & ENG. GEN., p. 433). The latter was that RICHARD FRENCH, first of Cambridge, Mass., who left in 1654, brothers of WILLIAM and JOHN FRENCH, of the same, and evidently rem. to N. J., and SAVAGE credits him with a son "certain JOHN," etc. (Vol. II, p. 207), and (CAMBRIDGE, Paige, pp. 551 and 2). They were playmates of the FRANCIS Family from the same place, (qui videt, supra).