Faunce (Y-DNA)

Status summary

As of February 28, 2025:

• Recruiting patrilineal (all male-line) descendants of John Faunce for NGS/WGS testing. Folks who believe they are patrilineal (all male line) descendants should Read me First

IMPORTANT: Read me First

Paper trail

For more information see: Faunce, James Freer, The Faunce Family History and Genealogy: The Ancestry and Descendants of John Faunce of Purleigh, Essex, England and Plymouth, Massachusetts. The University of Wisconsin, Madison (1967)

Origins

A private correspondence with the project administrator of the Fance/Faunce surname project at Family Tree DNA revealed where the administrator (a Fance from England) is a 67 Y-STR match to a John Faunce descendant (and a 2 step mis-match at 37 markers to a second John Faunce descendant). The Most Distant Known Patrilineal Ancestor (MDKPA) of the Project Administrator is Edward Faunce (d. 1605 Maldon, Essex, ENG). The will of Edward's widow (dated 1618) named two sons Thomas and John. The son Thomas (bp Maldon 20 Jun 1602) used the Fance surname and was the ancestor of the Project Administrator. Nothing further is known of the son John Faunce. It is possible he may have been the immigrant John Faunce, but it is certain that the immigrant John Faunce is in some way patrilineally related to this Faunce/Fance family.

First Generation

John Faunce was born ca 1607 and died Plymouth 29 Nov 1653. He emigrated to New Plimoth aboard the Anne in 1623, poss. as a servant to Manasseh Kempton. He married abt 1632 Patience Morton and they had eight children (Plymouth): Priscilla (c 1633 m Joseph Warren), Mary (c 1638 m William Harlow), Patience (c 1641), Sarah (c 1643 m Edward Doty & John Buck), Thomas (c 1647), Elizabeth (1648/9-1649/50), Mercy (1651) and Joseph (1653)

Second Generation

(Elder) Thomas Faunce was born Plymouth about 1647 and died there 27 Feb 1746. He married there 12 Dec 1672 Jane Nelson and they had seven children: Patience (1673), John (1678), Martha (1680), Priscilla (1684), Thomas (1687), Joannah (1689) and Jane/Jean (1692).

Joseph Faunce was born Plymouth 14 May 1653 and died there died bef 11 Mar 1724/5 (inventory). He married Plymouth 3 Jan 1677 Judith Rickard and they had nine children: Hannah (1678 m. Ephraim Morton & John Cooke), Mary (1681), John (1683), Mercy (1686-1687), Mehitable (1689), Joseph (1693), Eleazer (1695/6), Thomas (1698) and Benjamin (1703-1704).

Third Generation

John Faunce was born Plymouth 19 Sep 1678 and died there 19 Mar 1766. He married Plymouth 20 Nov 1705 Abigail Bryant and they had six children (Plymouth): Nathaniel (1706-1732 unm.), John (1709-1734 m Ruth Sampson, but only had 1 dau.), Mercy/Mary (1711), Abigail (1715), Jane (1717) and Patience (1721). In conclusion, there is no surviving Y-DNA line for this John Faunce.

Thomas Faunce (II) was born Plymouth 18 Mar 1687 and died there bef 16 Jun 1749 (probate). He married twice, first Plymouth 12 Jul 1711 Sarah Ford then Plymouth 29 May 1718 Lydia Barnaby. By his first wife he had two daughters (Plymouth): Hannah (1713-1716) and Sarah (1716). By his second wife he had eight more children (Plymouth): James (1719), Thomas (1721), Ruth (1723), Barnaby (1726-1728), Seth (1729-1729), Peleg (1730), Susan/Sarah (d.y.) and Lydia.

John Faunce was born Plymouth 3 Dec 1683 and died Kingston 18 Nov 1751. He married twice, first Plymouth 23 Feb 1710 Lydia Cooke then Kingston 11 Apr 1741 Lydia Tilden. By his first wife he had seven children: Judith (1711), Lydia (1714), John (1716), Hannah (1718), Mary (1720), Mehitable (1722) and Rebecca (1724). By his second wife he had (Kingston): Benjamin (1742).

Joseph Faunce (II) was born Plymouth 21 May 1693 and died Middleborough abt 1761. He married Middleborough 14 Feb 1723 Martha Soule and they had seven children (Middleborough): James (1723), Joseph (1725), Mercy (1728-1736), Judith (1731), Lydia (1733), Nathan (1734) and Simeon (1736).

Eleazer Faunce was born Plymouth 6 Feb 1695/6 and died there abt May 1746. He married 6 Aug 1724 Hannah Warren and they had six daughters (Plymouth): Hannah (1725), Elizabeth (1727), Patience (1729/30), Mary (1731), Abigail (1735) and Priscilla (1739).

Thomas Faunce was born Plymouth 15 Jun 1698 and died abt 12 Jun 1788. He married Scituate 13 Apr 1732 Hannah Damon and they had five children: Bathsheba (1734), Hannah (1736), Daniel (1738), Sarah (1743) and Thomas (1744/5).

DNA Results

Previous testing

The Fance and Faunce surname DNA Project results are only available to project members.

NGS/WGS testing

NGS/WGS testing is needed to fully refine the haplogroup.

References and External Resources

• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2004) pp. 201-203.

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