Ring (Y-DNA)

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Status summary

Completed as of October 6, 2020:

  • Recruiting additional direct male-line Andrew Ring descendants for further SNP testing. Individuals who believe they are patrilineal descendants should Read me First

Still to do as of October 1, 2020

  • NGS/WGS test multiple descendants of William Ring (and preferably through son Andrew) to firmly place family clade as well as test descendants to discover any subclades unique to descendants lines


IMPORTANT: Read me First

Biography

For more information see Silver Books, vol 6 (Hopkins) and vol 11 (Doty)

First Generation

[1] Andrew Ring was born in Leiden about 1618[1], son of William Ring & Mary Durrant.[2][3] William attempted to emigrate with the Leiden Congregation in 1620, but due to the unseaworthyness of the Speedwell he was left behind and died at Leiden sometime before 1629. Widow Mary brought her children over in 1629 or 1630 and settled in Plymouth, where she died in Jul 1631. William & Mary had two daughters (Elizabeth & Susanna) and a son, Andrew who came over to Plymouth.

Andrew married twice. His first married at Plymouth 23 Apr 1646 Deborah Hopkins, and his second marriage was about 1674 to Lettice (_____), widow of John Morton. Andrew & first wife, Deborah, had six children: Elizabeth, William, Eleazer, Mary, Deborah (presum. unmarried in father's will) and Susanna (presum. unmarried in father's will).

Second Generation

[2] William Ring was born Plymouth about 1652 and died about 1730. He married Plymouth 13 Jul 1693 to Hannah Sherman. They had six children: Deborah (1695/6-1696), Hannah (1697-1718), William (1699-1728 unm.), Elizabeth (1701/2), [3] Eleazer (1704/5-1734/5 unm.) and Deborah (1708/9 m Caleb Sherman, but no ch.)

[4] Eleazer Ring was born Plymouth 7 Nov 1665 and died there 21 Nov 1749. He married there 11 Jan 1687/8 Mary Shaw and they had twelve children: Eleazer (1688-1688), Andrew (1689-1691), Phebe (1691/2 m Ichabod Standish), Samuel (1693/4), Andrew (1696), Deborah (1698), Mary (1700), Jonathan (1702), Susanna (1705), Elkanah (1706 presum. unm.), Elizabeth (1708) and Lydia (1710).

Third Generation

[5] Samuel Ring was born Plymouth 12 Mar 1693/4 and died Kingston 8 May 1768. He married Plympton 28 Jan 1724/5 Ruth SYLVESTER Cooke and they had eleven children (born Kingston): George (1726 m Lucretia Chipman), Grace (1727), Grace (twin 1730), Lydia (twin 1730), Mary (1731/2), Samuel (1733/4-1747), Elizabeth (1736), Francis (1737/8 m Molly Weston), Louisa (1740), Eliphaz (1742/3 m Rebecca Weston) and Eleazer (1744-1744).

[6] (Capt.) Andrew Ring was born Plymouth 28 Mar 1696 and died No. Yarmouth, ME 17 Nov 1744. He married Plympton 20 May 1724 Zerviah Standish (desc. Myles Standish & John Alden) and they had eight children (first three at Kingston, others at No. Yarmouth): Mary (1724/5), Andrew (1727-1729), Susanna (1730), Hannah (1733), William (1735 m Deborah Loring), Sarah (1737), Eleazer (1740 m Olive Mitchell & Mary Sweetser) and Deborah (1742).

[7] Jonathan Ring was born Plymouth 23 Dec 1702 and died Worthington abt 1774. He married Kingston 21 Jan 1747/8 Sara Mitchell and they had seven children (born Kingston): Andrew (1748-1748/9), Eleazer (1749 m Elizabeth Day Spaulding, Abigail Joslyn & Damaris Johnson), Joseph (1751 m Penelope Patch), Sarah (1754), Jonathan (1757 m Hannah Angell), Molly (1760) and Elkanah (1762 prob. dy).


  1. ↑ Died Plymouth 22 Feb 1692/3 "in the 75th year of his age" (MD 4:193)
  2. ↑ Pilgrim Hall Museum Mary Ring biography.
  3. ↑ William and Mary were married Ufford, Suffolkshire, England 21 May 1601.

DNA results

Previous Y-DNA testing

The Ring & Ring* DNA Project currently does not publish their Y-DNA results.

Line of descent

One individual claimed they have done Y-DNA testing and descends from the Ring family as follows: 

 William Ring
   Andrew Ring
     Eleazer Ring
       Jonathan Ring
         Eleazer Ring
           Ethan Crandall Ring
             James Andrew Ring
               Morton Loomis Ring
                 father of tester 
                   tester

Link to non-Mayflower Ring family

Private correspondence from a Ring in Australia stated he is a Y DNA match to the "Mayflower Rings" through the Ring family DNA Project. He believes his patrilineal ancestry is not connected to William Ring. Big Y-700 testing would reveal (to some degree) how closely related his family is to the Mayflower Ring family.


Further needed testing

We need additional direct male-line descendants of this Ring family to WGS/NGS test to discover where this family falls in the Y-DNA tree.

References & External Links

  • Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 6 Hopkins General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA. 3rd edition 2001
  • Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: vol. 11 Family of Edward Doty part II (Thomas, Samuel, Desire & Elizabeth), 1996. Plymouth, General Society of Mayflower Descendants.
  • Anderson, Robert Charles, The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633 (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2004)
  • The American Genealogist, vol. 42, pp. 193-205, "The Widow Mary Ring of Plymouth, Mass., and her Children", John Insley Coddington


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