Kempton (Y-DNA)

Status summary

As of April 2, 2026:

• An early settler of New Plimoth. Married but never had any children.

Paper trail

First Generation

Manasseh Kempton was baptized at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England 26 Feb 1589/90, son of George Kempton (TAG 67:134). He died Plymouth 14 Jan 1662/3 (PCR 8:23). He married before the 1627 Cattle Division Juliana Carpenter, widow of George Morton. They had no known children.

DNA Results

Given the fact he had no children, it is not possible to determine his Y-DNA.

References and External Resources

• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2004) pp. 297-301.
• Smith, Dean Crawford, The English Origins of the Kempton Brothers of Plymouth Colony The American Genealogist, 67:132-135.

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