Mary Malvina Sweet<\/a>, born in 1852 or maybe 1853 (her children reported two different birth years as I posted earlier.). While I have an exact date I have no solid evidence, e.g., from a registration of her birth or a family Bible.\u00a0 Mary and Clemon Snow married in May 1880, in Lorain County, Ohio.\u00a0\u00a0 They had only two children surviving (given amount of time between there may have been others who did not survive although this wasn\u2019t passed along in family lore).\u00a0 My grandmother was the only female so the only one passing mitochondrial DNA on.<\/p>\nMary Sweet\u2019s mother was Brisena (or Bricena) Chadwick who was born in 1814 in Lee, Massachusetts and married Colvin Sweet in 1835 in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.\u00a0 As a child one of my favorite family stories was that my grandmother was named after her grandmother who had been a twin (girls named Bricena and Chrisena).\u00a0 That looks like a family myth since I (so far) find no evidence that there was twin (based on the Lee Vital Records to 1850 on the americanancestors.org site.\u00a0 So much for stories.\u00a0 Bricena and Colvin Sweet had somewhere around 10 children including 3 girls.\u00a0 The first Mary died within a month of her birth.\u00a0 The second, Bricena E. Sweet (known as Aunt Britie) never married (and had no children as far as I know).\u00a0 and the second Mary was my great grandmother.\u00a0 So she was (at least so far) the only one to pass on mitochondrial DNA.<\/p>\n
Bricena Chadwick\u2019s mother was Eunice Phelps, born in 1785 in Hebron, Connecticut one week after Hebron\u2019s county changed from Windham county to Tolland county.\u00a0 In 1805 she married Hemen (or Herman) Chadwick in Lee, Massachusetts and they had 5 children, only one a girl (Bricena).\u00a0 Hemen Chadwick died young, in 1815 leaving Bricena a 30 year old widow.\u00a0 If she had married again and had more children there would be other possibilities, however, I believe that she did not remarry until 1827 (when she was 41) and did not have more children.\u00a0 So again, my great-great grandmother was the only female in her line passing along mitochondrial DNA.<\/p>\n
This is the point at which my own research stopped until very recently.\u00a0 I think Eunice\u2019s mother was a Lucy Lord, born 1748, and married to Solomon Phelps, Jr. born 1743, both in Connecticut.\u00a0 I am only beginning to research from here, so will just list the names I have been given by my recent match in October.\u00a0 What she found, and I think is at least close to the earlier tree that isn\u2019t online anymore, are these women:<\/p>\n
Lucy Lord 1748 in Colchester
\nLucy Bulkeley 1720 in Colchester
\nPatience Prentice 1680 New London
\nSarah Jones 1654 Boston
\nAnn Griggs 1632 New London
\nAlice Sibtharp 1603 Buckinghamshire, England<\/p>\n
So I have a \u201cmap\u201d of sorts to guide me.\u00a0 I am particularly interested in finding the families that had more than one female living to adulthood and having children of her own, since these could be my mitochondrial matches which don\u2019t look at all familiar in family tree surnames at first glance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Having tested my mitochondrial DNA (on FTDNA) to expand my mother\u2019s lines, I am in the process of doing a RootsMagic database to track those families and add evidence.\u00a0 As soon as my DNA results were posted in early 2014 …<\/p>\n
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