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==Status summary==
===Completed as of June 4, 2026: ===
* Recruiting matrilineal (direct female-line) descendants of Elizabeth RICHARDS Standish for mtDNA testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

==Biography==
For more information see: Warner, Russell L., compiler (Robert S. Wakefield FASG Editor), ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 14 Myles Standish'' Plymouth, MA. General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2007.
===First Generation===
[https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Richards-2107][https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I11412&tree=MylesStandish Elizabeth Richards], daughter of John Richards & [https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Woodbury-238 Elizabeth Woodbury] was born Beverly 18 May 1684 and died bef 26 Jan 1730. She married Preston, CT 8 Feb 1703/4 [[Standish (Y-DNA)#Third Generation |Israel Standish]] and they had had four children: [https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I11681&tree=MylesStandish Elizabeth] (1706/7, unk. if marr.), Miles (1709), Amy (1710) and Prudence (1711).

===Second Generation===
[https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I11683&tree=MylesStandish Amy Standish] was born Preston, CT 14 Mar 1709/10 and died perh. Mansfield, CTA 24 Feb 1798. She married Mansfield 13 Dec 1734 Simon Huntington and they had four children: Elizabeth (1735-1738), Ruth (1738), Simon (1740) and Elizabeth (1743, no further record).

[https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I11544&tree=MylesStandish Prudence Standish] was born Preston, CT 9 May 1711 and died Windham, CT 25 Dec 1769. She married twice, first Windham 3 Sep 1730 Jacob Sawyer, then Windham 29 Aug 1759 John Bond (no ch.) By her first husband she had eleven children: Jemima (1731-1747), Elizabeth (1733 n.f.r.), Eunice (1736), Prudence (1738 n.f.r.), Ephraim (1740), Abigail (1742 n.f.r.), Dinah (1744), Jeremiah (1746 n.f.r.), Jemima (1749), Cornelius (1751) and Jacob Standish (1754).

===Third Generation===
[https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I12484&tree=MylesStandish Ruth Huntington] was born Mansfield, CT 19 Apr 1738 and died aft Apr 1798. She married Mansfield 25 Mar 1773 Walter Trumball and they had two<ref>The 1790 Census of this family recorded two females in the household. Therefor, it is probable the couple also had a currently unidentified daughter.</ref> children: Walter (1775-1794) and James (1779).

Eunice Sawyer was born Windham, CT 22 May 1733 and died Coventry, CT 30 Sep 1805. She married Coventry 12 Feb 1756 Benjamin Blackman and they had seven children: Eunice (1760 unm.), Benjamin (1763), Elijah (1766), Olive (1768), Sarah (1771), Shubael (1773) and Standish (1779).

Dinah Sawyer was born Windham, CT 20 Apr 1744. She married Woodstock CT 2 Jun 1763 John Bowen and they had seven children (Woodstock): Aaron (1764-1764), Lucretia (1765), John (1766), Lucy (1769), Elizabeth (1769), Prudence (1770) and Melissa (bp 1776).

Jemima Sawyer was born Windham, CT 7 Mar 1749 and died aft Oct 1778. She married Windham 8 Jan 1772 Stephen Woodward and they had: infant (1771-1771).

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==DNA results '''''TBD'''''==
To date, we know of no matrilinear (all female line) descendants of Elizabeth RICHARDS Standish who has taken a mtDNA test and published their results. Matrilineal descendants are encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

==References==
* Warner, Russell L., compiler (Robert S. Wakefield FASG Editor), ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume 14 Myles Standish'' Plymouth, MA. General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2007.
* [https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I11165&tree=MylesStandish Myles Standish "Society of Myles Standish Descendants" Genealogy Database.

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