There is no record of William FRENCH in Christian Co., KY.  Whichever of his children reached there did so on their own steam or with their uncle, Simon H. FRENCH, who was there when the county formed in 1797.

.  Hugh FRENCH, b. 1780-90 
.  Hannah FRENCH, bef. 1785 
.  Mary "Polly" FRENCH, bef. 1787 
.  Sarah "Sally" FRENCH, bef. 1788 

.  John FRENCH, b. bef. 1804 

.  Susan FRENCH; m. Samuel McRUNNELS
.  (son) FRENCH

Christian Co. did not exist in 1793, so Jane and Capt. John could not have been married there, not to mention that she would have been only 12 years old in 1793.  The marriage records of Christian Co. are extant, and her marriage does not apprear there — nor in Warren Co., KY.  If she was married in 1793, she was almost certainly married in South Carolina (whose marriage records are non-existent thanks to the burning of sourthern court houses during the Civil War).

1.  Family Group Sheet compiled by Georgie Tolleson and Betty Ann (Matthiesen) Cogliati.

2.  Census Index:  U.S. Selected Counties, 1790 (Broderbund CD-311):

French, William

SC

Pendleton Dist.

p. 84

02-02-05-00-00

These data indicate:

Gender and Type	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
2 free white males	16 and over	in or before 1774	= William (b. 1756) = eldest son
2 free white males	15 and under	1774-1790	= two younger sons
5 free white females	all ages	in or before 1790	= Wife (b. bef. 1760) = Jane (b. 1781) = Hannah (b. 1785) = 2 of the other 3 daughters

For neighbors, see 1790 Census Table.

3.  Anon.  1991.  The 1795 Census of Kentucky [as constructed from tax lists].  T.L.C. Genealogy, Miami Beach, FL.

Name	County
French, William	Clark
French, William	Woodford

Other FRENCHs in KY:  Benjamin, Henry, Ignatius, James (2), Levi, Raphael, Robert, Samuel, Stephen.

4.  Anon.  1990.  Logan County, Kentucky, Taxpayers, 1792-1799.  T.L.C. Genealogy, Miami Beach, FL.

Year	Name
1796	French, William
1797	French, John
1798	[list not extant]
1799	[not found]

5.  William S. Bryan & Robert Rose.  1876.  Pioneer Families of Missouri.  Bryan, Brand, & Co., St. Louis, MO (reprinted 1992, Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC; reprinted 1997, Gen. Publ. Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD — if you buy a copy, be sure to get the GPC version because the SHP version is bound too tightly and the margins trimmed way too narrow).  On p. 329:

FRENCH.--William and Simon French were brothers, and lived in South Carolina.  William died, leaving a widow and seven children, viz.: Hugh, John, Jane, Sally, Hannah, Mary, and Susan.  The widow and her children removed to Warren county, East Tennessee, in 1795.  Her son Hugh married his cousin, Sally French, of Christian county, Ky., and settled in Boone county, Mo., in 1820.  His children were--Simon L., William H., John N., Caroline M., Mary J., Susan A., Sarah J., and Emily E.  John French settled in Callaway Co., MO., in 1820.  He was married first to Jane Clark, of Montgomery county, by whom he had--William H., Bryant, Milton, and Sally A.  His second wife was Isabella Dillard, by whom he had--Hugh, Thomas, and Lucy. Jane French married John Dutton. Sally married Joseph Elledge. Hannah married Samuel Cox. Mary married Isaac Clark, of Montgomery county.  Susan married Samuel McRunnels... [continued on Simon French's page]

Bryan & Rose are known to have made many errors, some serious, and this entry appears to contain several that are sources of a great deal of confusion about this family.

• First off, Warren Co., TN, did not exist until 1807, and for that matter, neither did Warren Co., KY, but it is to Logan [now Warren] Co., KY, that they surely went — and William had not died.  William FRENCH shows up on the tax rolls of Logan [now Warren] Co., KY, in 1796, along with his brothers-in-law, Benjamin CLARK and Isaac DAVIS.  William is again on the Warren Co., KY, tax roll in 1800; and three of his children are married in Warren Co., KY, between 1797 and 1801.  My first inclination would be to believe that the William FRENCH in Warren Co., KY, is a different individual, but the marriages of the children and presence of his in-laws argue otherwise.  The only other possibility might be that this William FRENCH is son of our subject.  Bryan & Rose do not mention a son, William, but there is a son unaccounted for in the 1790 Census.  It becomes a question of which error(s) did Bryan & Rose make: That there was a son, William?  Or that the father didn't die before 1795?  And it is a cruelty of fate with regard to names that William's son, Hugh, and son-in-law, Joseph ELLEDGE (husband of daughter, Sally), show up on the tax rolls of Warren Co., TN, in 1812.  As if we didn't have confusion enough!  But that juxtaposition of names (i.e., Warren Co., KY, and Warren Co., TN) undoubtedly led to the confusion in the family history that Bryan & Rose were presumably relating.
• Hannah married William COX.

5.  WorldConnect (online at RootsWeb.com).