Adonejah FRENCH [1][2][3][4][5] was born [6] 7 Feb 1773. He died [7][8] 22 Oct 1850 and was buried [9] in Pines Bridge Cemetery, Beacon Falls, New Haven, CT. Adonejah married [10][11] Polly COOK on 23 Feb 1803.
↑ Compiled by Carole Magnuson, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - Oxford 1798-1850., General Editor, Lorraine Cook White, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2000, p. 36. " ... by Adonijah French, J.P."
↑ Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 721.
↑ Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 722. "Was a justice of the peace and representative of Woodbridge."
↑ Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 4929.
↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 3, p 625.
↑ David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery (Pines Bridge Cemetery), #23. http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan23.html.
↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 625.
↑ David Davis & Levi L. Glasson, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Pines Bridge Cemetery, #23. "Cook, Prudence, wife of Jesse, died Oct. 9, 1829, aged 88.
Seidel, Aldolph, died 1873.
French, Cook, son of A. & P., died Dec. 6, 1840, age 29.
French, Adonejah, died Oct. 22, 1850, age 73.
French, Polly, died March 23, 1863, age 83.
Cook, William, died April 25, 1851, age 55." http://oxfordpast.net/pbcemscan23.html.
↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 3, p 625.
↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 2, p 445.
Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 7 May 2020), "Record of David French", Ancestor # A042349. Meehan-411
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