Genealogy of the Marshall Family,
including Medieval and Ancient Lines

Updated: 02-03-2022.

Submitted and Maintained by Bill Marshall, bill.marshall@verizon.net.


Additions and corrections appreciated (especially with sources). My current list of sources is here. Homepage here.

Index of Medieval and Ancient Lines is here, notable people here, and Gedcom may be downloaded here.

Index of Modern Lines (immigrants to America and their descendants) is here, notable people here, and Gedcom here.


Individual Page

    Person Info
  • Name: Dorcas FRENCH
  • Sex: F
  • Birth: 31 Jul 1614 in Assington, Suffolk, England b
  • Baptism: 31 Jul 1614 in Assington, Suffolk, England c
  • Death: 14 Oct 1694 in Roxbury, Massachusetts d


    • Parents:
  • Father:
  • Thomas Sr FRENCH Birth: Abt 11 Oct 1584 in Assington, Suffolk, England Death: Before 5 Nov 1639 in Ipswich, Massachusetts
    • Mother:
  • Susan RIDDLESDALE Birth: Abt 20 Apr 1584 in Boxford, Suffolk, England Death: Aug 1658 in Ipswich, Massachusetts

Family:
Marriage: Children:
  1. Jonathan PEAKE Birth: 17 Dec 1637 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Death: 2 Jun 1700 in Roxbury, Massachusetts
  2. Dorcas PEAKE Birth: 1 Mar 1639/40 in Roxbury, Massachusetts
  3. Hannah PEAKE Birth: 12 Feb 1642/3 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Death: 5 Oct 1660 in Roxbury, Massachusetts
  4. Joseph PEAKE Birth: 23 Mar 1644/5 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Death: After 1666
  5. (Unk Child) PEAKE Birth: 13 Apr 1647 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Death: 13 Apr 1647 in Roxbury, Massachusetts
  6. (Unk Child) PEAKE Birth: 10 May 1649 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Death: 10 May 1649 in Roxbury, Massachusetts
  7. Ephraim PEAKE Birth: 11 Apr 1652 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Death: After 1666
  8. Sarah PEAKE Birth: 9 Mar 1655/6 in Roxbury, Massachusetts Death: After 1666

Marriage:
Bibliography
  1. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633. Boston, New England Historical Genealogical Society, 1995. Available at http://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p[0-9]*].
  2. Banks, Charles Edward, The Planters of the Commonwealth: A Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times to which are added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which brought them; their English Homes, and the Places of their Settlement in Massachusetts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. Reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1967. LDS Fiche #6046840. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007827816, images 193-318 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Planters p[0-9]*].
  3. Banks, Charles E, The Winthrop Fleet of 1630: An account of the Vessels, the Voyage, the Passengers, and their English Homes from Original Authorities. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1983. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/film/007831475?cat=132944, images 475-543. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Banks Winthrop p[0-9]*].
  4. Davis, Walter Goodwin, Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine: Anthoensen Press, 1959. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/33853 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Davis WILDES p[0-9]*].
  5. French, Mara T, The Frenchline Newsletter. San Jose, CA: 1984. LDS Fiche#605537. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v[0-9]*#[0-9]*].
  6. French, Robert L, Descendants of Thomas French of Ipswich, Massachusetts, in Five Generations. Chatham, NY: author, 1990. NEHGS CS71/F876/1990. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p[0-9]*].
  7. Linzee, John William, The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. Boston: author, 1913. G1638. Available at http://archive.org/details/historyofpeterpa00linz Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p[0-9]*].
  8. Threlfall, John B, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England, Madison, WI: author, 1990. NEHGS F3/T58/1990. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/405085. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information
date:
[Ref: FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p412]
1614 [Ref: Banks Winthrop p71]
bp 31 Jul 1614 [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
place:
[Ref: Banks Planters p173, Banks Winthrop p71, Davis WILDES p64, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p412, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
parents:
[Ref: Banks Planters p173, Banks Winthrop p71, Davis WILDES p63, Davis WILDES p64, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p412, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
father:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p491]
Sources for baptism Information
date:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p64, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
place:
[Ref: Davis WILDES p64, FrenchRL FRENCH p8, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
Sources for death Information
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p491, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2]
14 or 15 Oct 1694 [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p491, Davis WILDES p64, FrenchMT Frenchline v1#2, FrenchRL FRENCH p14, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
date:
30 Dec 1697 [Ref: Davis WILDES p64, FrenchRL FRENCH p14, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425]
Sources with Information about marriage to Christopher PEAKE
date:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1414, FrenchRL FRENCH p14, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
3 Jan 1636 [Ref: Davis WILDES p64]
first marriage of Dorcas [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705],
place:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1414, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425],
child:
[Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1414, FrenchRL FRENCH p14, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
Sources with Information about marriage to Griffin CRAFTS
date:
after 1679 as third wife of Griffin [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p1414]
second marriage of Dorcas [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p705, Davis WILDES p64, FrenchRL FRENCH p14, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]
second marriage of Dorcas and third marriage of Griffin [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425]
third marriage of Griffin Crafts [Ref: Anderson GreatMigrationI p491]
Research Notes:
1633: immigrated [Ref: Davis WILDES p63]

1633: immigrated to New England on 3 year service to John Winthrop as maidservant [Ref: Threlfall 50GMCol p160]

1634: immigrated with sister Susan, to be indentured to the Winthrops [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p3]

Maidservant to Gov. Winthrop [Ref: Banks Winthrop p71, Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425]

served 4 years with John Winthrop, Sr [Ref: FrenchRL FRENCH p3]

in letter from Thomas Gostlin to Winthrop, Jr, from Groton, Jun 11 1633, in regard to sending over a maid - "se is one of the goodman Frenches daughters of Assington. I have sent 2 of them, one for your father and the other for you. Your father must take his choice. The eldest must serve for 3 yeeres, and the youngest 4... pray let them be delt as well with all as any of the same quality." [Ref: Davis WILDES p63]

Aug 10 1634: as maid servant to John Winthrop the elder, admitted to the First Church [Ref: Davis WILDES p64]

Aug 10 1634: admitted to First Church of Boston [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425, Threlfall 50GMCol p160]

Jan 24 1675: The Council ordered that the Committee for the Army pay to widdow Peake forty shillings in mo. at present for wages for her servant late in the country's service & dyett & attendance of him being wounded [Ref: Linzee PARKER-RUGGLES p425]



Pedigree of Dorcas FRENCH
                   /-----Stephen FRENCH
          /-----Jacob FRENCH
         |         \-----Mary (FRENCH)
 /-----Thomas Sr FRENCH
|        |         /-----William WARREN
|         \-----Susan WARREN
|                  \-----Katherine (WARREN)
Dorcas FRENCH
|                           /-----Jasper RIDDLESDALE
|                  /-----Henry RIDDLESDALE
|                 |         \-----Elizabeth (RIDDLESDALE)
|         /-----John RIDDLESDALE
|        |         \-----Joan (RIDDLESDALE)
 \-----Susan RIDDLESDALE
          \-----Dorcas (RIDDLESDALE)



Descendants of Dorcas FRENCH
1. Dorcas FRENCH m1. Christopher PEAKE m2. Griffin CRAFTS
m. Christopher PEAKE
m. Griffin CRAFTS

2nd generation

2. Jonathan PEAKE m. Sarah FRENCH
m. Sarah FRENCH father: William FRENCH mother: Elizabeth GODFREY

3rd generation

10. Jonathan PEAKE m. Hannah LEAVENS
m. Hannah LEAVENS

4th generation

11. Abigail PEAKE m. Isaac JOHNSON
m. Isaac JOHNSON
12. Sarah PEAKE m. John MORSE
m. John MORSE

5th generation

13. Moses JOHNSON m. Mercy FOX
m. Mercy FOX
14. Jedediah MORSE m. Sarah CHILD
m. Sarah CHILD father: Benjamin CHILD mother: Patience THAYER