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Tertius French 1824-1899 was one of the sons of Horace and Annie (Hawley) French of the Township of Sutton. He married as his third wife Helen A. Sweet 1836-1928. Their daughter Wealthy V. French married Frederick A. Olmstead Sr. of Sutton. One document mentions that Tertius was a carpenter and joiner which accounts for the fact that he was elected an overseer for the erection of Sutton's Town Hall in 1859. The correspondence reveals that in the 1880's Tertius was carrying on a lively business of exporting carloads of hay to buyers in Worcester, Mass, the papers give the impression that his business and family affairs were conducted in a way which showed that he was honest and trustworthy. His mother's people, the Hawley's were among the grantees of the Township of Sutton receiving land in North Sutton at the time of the granting of the Charter.