Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index
Name: Joseph French
Birth Date: abt 1710
Age at Death: 30
Death Date: 11 Aug 1740
Death Place: Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 599303
Joseph wrote his will on Aug 9, 1740, he said he knew he was dying. He died on the 11th his will was probated 26 Aug 1740 and proved on 2 Sep 1740. He left everything to his wife and 4 children, if they survived. Otherwise they were to be divided between his siblings.
His will is on Ancestry.
His parents were John French and Elizabeth Bill.
He married Lucy White abt 1730. They were blessed with 4 children. In August of 1740 Joseph and their 4 children all died from an epidemic, within a few days of each other. The bodies were cremated as was the custom to control further outbreak.
His wife Lucy survived the epidemic and wed Josiah Wolcott on April 23, 1741 in Saybrook, Pennsylvania. Together with her 2nd husband Josiah Wolcott she had 12 more children.
Lucy died of smallpox in 1759 and her body was cremated.
Name: Joseph French
Birth Date: abt 1710
Age at Death: 30
Death Date: 11 Aug 1740
Death Place: Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 599303
Joseph wrote his will on Aug 9, 1740, he said he knew he was dying. He died on the 11th his will was probated 26 Aug 1740 and proved on 2 Sep 1740. He left everything to his wife and 4 children, if they survived. Otherwise they were to be divided between his siblings.
His will is on Ancestry.
His parents were John French and Elizabeth Bill.
He married Lucy White abt 1730. They were blessed with 4 children. In August of 1740 Joseph and their 4 children all died from an epidemic, within a few days of each other. The bodies were cremated as was the custom to control further outbreak.
His wife Lucy survived the epidemic and wed Josiah Wolcott on April 23, 1741 in Saybrook, Pennsylvania. Together with her 2nd husband Josiah Wolcott she had 12 more children.
Lucy died of smallpox in 1759 and her body was cremated.
Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index
Name: Joseph French
Birth Date: abt 1710
Age at Death: 30
Death Date: 11 Aug 1740
Death Place: Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 599303
Joseph wrote his will on Aug 9, 1740, he said he knew he was dying. He died on the 11th his will was probated 26 Aug 1740 and proved on 2 Sep 1740. He left everything to his wife and 4 children, if they survived. Otherwise they were to be divided between his siblings.
His will is on Ancestry.
His parents were John French and Elizabeth Bill.
He married Lucy White abt 1730. They were blessed with 4 children. In August of 1740 Joseph and their 4 children all died from an epidemic, within a few days of each other. The bodies were cremated as was the custom to control further outbreak.
His wife Lucy survived the epidemic and wed Josiah Wolcott on April 23, 1741 in Saybrook, Pennsylvania. Together with her 2nd husband Josiah Wolcott she had 12 more children.
Lucy died of smallpox in 1759 and her body was cremated.
Name: Joseph French
Birth Date: abt 1710
Age at Death: 30
Death Date: 11 Aug 1740
Death Place: Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut
Gender: Male
FHL Film Number: 599303
Joseph wrote his will on Aug 9, 1740, he said he knew he was dying. He died on the 11th his will was probated 26 Aug 1740 and proved on 2 Sep 1740. He left everything to his wife and 4 children, if they survived. Otherwise they were to be divided between his siblings.
His will is on Ancestry.
His parents were John French and Elizabeth Bill.
He married Lucy White abt 1730. They were blessed with 4 children. In August of 1740 Joseph and their 4 children all died from an epidemic, within a few days of each other. The bodies were cremated as was the custom to control further outbreak.
His wife Lucy survived the epidemic and wed Josiah Wolcott on April 23, 1741 in Saybrook, Pennsylvania. Together with her 2nd husband Josiah Wolcott she had 12 more children.
Lucy died of smallpox in 1759 and her body was cremated.
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Body was cremated to stop spread of epidemic.
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