Samuel French (abt. 1824)

Ancestors

Died [date unknown] in Norfolk, Massachusetts [uncertain]

Biography

Research Notes

Birth year is estimated based on the birth of his child.^[1]

Notes

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From Edmund S Soper's Weymouth Ways and Weymouth People - Reminiscences, pub 1907

Fifty years ago was our first meeting in the Town Hall, then just completed. Noah Vining was chairman of the Board of Selectmen, with Atherton N. Hunt and Samuel French, 2d; Oran White was our Town Clerk, who served for many years, being a good man whom all liked to meet. Cotton Bates

was our pleasant Collector of taxes. He was a character. Well do I remember him ; coming into the shoe shop and finding a seat empty, he would put his hand on it and say, " The nest is warm, the bird is not far away," and then quietly sit down to wait for the delinquent, who was short of money to pay his taxes. For all his being a tax collector, every one greeted him pleasantly.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915," database, FamilySearch (Massachusetts Births : 4 December 2014), Samuel French in entry for French, 1845; citing WEYMOUTH,NORFOLK,MASSACHUSETTS, ; FHL microfilm unknown.

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