Walter French (1781 - 1865)

Born 5 Jan 1781 in Norwalk, Fairfield, CT, USA

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Walter was born in 1781. Walter French ... He passed away in 1865.

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Sources

• 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 657.

• Arthur Walker, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Seymour Methodist Cemetery, p. 86. "French, William, died July 31, 1823, age 19 yrs.

French, Washington, son of Walter & Laura, died Sept 14, 1821, age 5 weeks." http://oxfordpast.net/mecemscan86.html.

• 1850 Westville, New Haven, CT Census. "Laborer."

• 1860 New Haven Census.

• Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), p. 825. " ... Walter French, at Humphreysville, a local Methodist preacher, made augers, and is believed to have been the first auger maker in Connecticut."

• Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), p. 238. " ... pioneer in the manufacture of screw auger bits ..."

• Compiled and edited by Jacqyelyn Ladd Ricker, The Ricker Compilation of Vital Records of Early Connecticut (Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2006), p. 4933.

• Sharpe, Seymour Past and Present, p. 238.

• Samuel Orcutt, History Old Town of Derby, Connecticut 1642-1880, p. 463. " ... Walter French, a resident of Humphreysville, received license to exhort, and afterwards to preach, and became a useful minister; having a good memory, a ready utterance, and often spoke with great persuasive influence. He died in 1865, aged over eighty years."

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