Ancestry of
Eli Whitney

Inventor of the Cotton Gin

Hannah French

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• • 4th Generation — Great-grandmother of Eli Whitney
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  • 11 
  • Father:
  • William French   
  • Mother:
  • Mary Lathrop   
  • Birth Date:
  • 25 Jan 1675/1676 
  • Birth Location:
  • Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Child Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 5 Oct 1693 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts 
  • Child:
  • Mary Child 

• Sources for Hannah French

  • ¹ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 592.
  • ² Child, Elias, Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childe Families, of the Past and Present in the United States and the Canadas, Utica, NY: Curtiss and Childs, Printers (1881), 507.
  • ³ Coburn, Frederick William, History of Lowell and Its People, Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co. (1920), Part 2, Page 104.
  • ⁴ Huntington, E. B., A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family in this Country, Ridgefield, Connecticut: M. Huntington (1884), 45, Ancestry.com (Online Database).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 455, 482, 497, 500.
  • ⁶ Watertown Historical Society, Vital Records of Watertown, 1630-1825 (Online Database), New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007, Vol. 2, Page 9, Birth record for son Jonathan Child, New England Historic Genealogical Society (Online Database).