Daniel Chester French Connection?
Dear Cousins,
In Charles Newton French's book, he alludes to the fact that the line he wrote about(Aaron French)may have been related to the sculptor, Daniel Chester French.I am descended from Aaron French son of Joseph (Thomas Jr,Thomas,Thomas).These Frenches were all in New Jersey, but I wonder if the connection or the orgin of the myth could be through either of the following:
Someone from the Branford Colony, Connecticut was a French or a Clark and related to Daniel Chester French. That is the colony that Edward Ball, the founder of Newark is from.
The Thomas Ball who was the teacher of Daniel Chester French is related through Phebe Bates the wife ofEzekiel French 1775-1861.
Have any of you done Daniel Chester French'sgenealogy?
Doris French Smith