Grace Reed (Crosby) French (1779 - 1855)

Born 7 Aug 1779 in Jaffrey, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Nathaniel French — married 23 Oct 1803 in Amherst, New Hampshire, United States

Descendants

Died 12 Jul 1855 at age 75 in Sandwich, Carroll, New Hampshire, United States

Biography

Grace was born in 1779. She was the daughter of Joseph Crosby and Esther Lane.^[1]

1799 Octr. ye 20 Gracy Reed Crosby was baptized ^[2]

Mr. Nathaniel French of Sandwich married Miss Grace Reed Crosby of Amherst 23 Oct 1803, at Amherst, New Hampshire.^[3]

Death: Grace French 12 Jul 1855 at Sandwich, Carroll Co., NH^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ New Hampshire: Births to 1901, Deaths and Marriages to 1937. (From microfilmed records. Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014.) https://www.americanancestors.org/DB516/i/13797/38481/246080936
2. ↑ Amherst Congregational Church Records; Volume 1, 1741-1816 (https://www.nhhistory.org/Object?id=4b6983e8-2655-4fe4-8592-bc7ff0595ce0, New Hampshire Historical Society), Tuck Library, NH Historical Society, Concord, NH, image 45/96.
3. ↑ "Marriages by the Rev. Jeremiah Barnard, Amherst, New Hampshire., 1780-1829." New England Historical and Genealogical Register: 61:243 (1907)
4. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64934711/grace-reed-french

• New Hampshire marriages
• Daniel F. Secomb, History of the Town of Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (Concord, NH: Evans, Sleeper & Woodbury, 1883; facsimile, Somersworth, NH: NH Publishing Company, 1972), p 549.
• Town Clerk, Amherst, New Hampshire, Town Records (Original) Volume II 1791-1842 (Microfilm Roll 1 of 3, Filmed for the Historical Society of Amherst, NH; Location Amherst Town Library), Tuck Library, NH Historical Society, Concord, NH, p 410 marriage.

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