Talk:Parker H. French

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This entry seems to be based on excellent scholarship. According to an unpublished manuscript by Samuel Stiles, who apparently walked, with others, to Mazatlan, French wanted to rob the city treasury and wanted his mutineers "to let bygones be bygones" and assist. Stiles made the trip on the Ohio, with Lieutenant West, in advance of the Georgia. Stiles is unclear whether or not the group he was with continued on to Port Lavaca or whether they continued from New Orleans on the Georgia. Stiles apparently got as far as Onion Valley, up the Feather River, but soon returned home with little, if any, gold other than what he had earned. 2011 September 16. Wolfhawker (talk) 06:24, 17 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

My sources, either Kenneth Johnson, or Ned McGowan in his two part article about Parker French, say that his wife's name was Desdemona. Could you provide source for her name as Lucretia? Christopher Burchfield (talk) 22:45, 10 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wolf hawker...do you have access to the Samuel Stiles document? My GGF was on the expedition and I'm trying to find as much as possible