Deborah (Wathen) French (bef. 1625 - aft. 1679)

Born before 13 Mar 1625 in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Walter Joy — married about 1645 in prob Salem, Massachusetts

Wife of Thomas French — married before 1667 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died after Jul 1679 after age 54 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

Biography

Deborah Wathen was baptized at St James, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, 13 Mar 1624/5; daughter of George Wathen and his wife Margerie. Margerie was also baptised this day. ^[1]

She married Walter Joy before 27 Sep 1652, when she deposed in the case of her cousin Thomas Wathen, late of Gloucester, Mass.

She married second to Thomas French

Sources

1. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975", database, FamilySearch : 19 March 2020), Debora Wathen, 1624. [1]

• Clifford L. Stott, English Background of George & Margery (Hayward) Wathen of Salem, and their Nephew William Sargent of Gloucester, Massachusetts, NEHGR Vol. 148:67-78 (Jan. 1994)
• Pendery, Joyce S., Descendants of George and Margery Wathen of Salem, Massachusetts, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2000) Vol. 154, Page 329,
• Jacobus, Donald Lines, MA (compiler, editor.) History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. (Fairfield, Conn.: The Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, 1930.) Accessed at Ancestry ($). Vol II Part II p 1074