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Martha Ford<ref>TAG 56:32-33</ref> was born about 1619 and died in Plymouth 20 Dec 1683 in her 64th year<ref>Plymouth Church Records 1:250</ref> She married at Plymouth 29 Oct 1640 to William Nelson<ref>Plymouth Colony Records 1:153</ref> They had four children: Martha, John, William and Jane. | Martha Ford<ref>TAG 56:32-33</ref> was born about 1619 and died in Plymouth 20 Dec 1683 in her 64th year<ref>Plymouth Church Records 1:250</ref> She married at Plymouth 29 Oct 1640 to William Nelson<ref>Plymouth Colony Records 1:153</ref> They had four children: Martha, John, William and Jane. | ||
| − | Mary Brown(e) | + | Mary Brown(e) was born sometime before the 1627 land division and died in 1683. She married Ephraim Tinkham. They had 6 sons and 1 daughter, Mary (1661-1731). This daughter Mary married John Thomson and had 9 sons and 3 daughters (Mary, Martha & Sarah). However, none of these three daughters ever married. |
| − | Priscilla Brown(e) | + | Priscilla Brown(e) was born about 1628 and died in 1698. She married William Allen of Sandwich, but they never had any children. |
==Summary of findings== | ==Summary of findings== | ||
Revision as of 15:11, 25 November 2020
Contents
Status summary
As of November 25, 2020:
- No opportunities for mtDNA testing
- Low priority
Paper Trail
Very little information is known about Martha. It is known she came to New Plimouth Colony aboard the Fortune in 1621, she apparently came with her husband (whose identity is unknown). This first husband died sometime before the 1623 land division at New Plimouth. She married at New Plimouth sometime between the 1623 land division and the 1627 Cattle division (when she already had one child) to Peter Brown(e). She had died about 1630-31.[1]
By her first husband, Martha had three children: John, Martha, and a child born immediately after landing in Nov 1621, but died before the 1627 cattle division. By her second husband, Martha had two daughters: Mary and Priscilla.
Second Generation
Martha Ford[2] was born about 1619 and died in Plymouth 20 Dec 1683 in her 64th year[3] She married at Plymouth 29 Oct 1640 to William Nelson[4] They had four children: Martha, John, William and Jane.
Mary Brown(e) was born sometime before the 1627 land division and died in 1683. She married Ephraim Tinkham. They had 6 sons and 1 daughter, Mary (1661-1731). This daughter Mary married John Thomson and had 9 sons and 3 daughters (Mary, Martha & Sarah). However, none of these three daughters ever married.
Priscilla Brown(e) was born about 1628 and died in 1698. She married William Allen of Sandwich, but they never had any children.
Summary of findings
It would appear that there are no known direct matrilineal descendants of Martha, wife of ____ Ford and Peter Brown(e). Since we do not even know her maiden name, there is no way to conduct mtDNA testing currently.
To do
- Identify maiden name of Martha and her origins.
External links and references
- Wakefield, Robert S., Mayflower Families through Five Generations vol. 7 Brown General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 1992
- Roser, Susan E. Mayflower Passenger References (from Contemporary Records and Scholarly Journals) Stewart Publishing Co., Canada, 2nd ed. 2015, pp. 156-62
- Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 49-51
- Merrick, Barbara L., The Mayflower Quarterly 53(Feb 1987):10-13, "Some New Information about Pilgrim Peter Brown"
- Wakefield, Robert S., The American Genealogist 56(1981):32 "Men of the Fortune: Ford"
