Difference between revisions of "Standish (Y-DNA)"

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Status summary

As of October 3, 2020:

• Standish surname project contacted
• Y-DNA descendants of Myles Standish encouraged to NGS/WGS test. Interested persons contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com
• Y-DNA Haplogroup: I-FT276480

Paper trail

First Generation

(Capt.) Miles Standish^[1] was born about 1587,^[2] possibly at the Isle of Man.^[3] He died at Duxburrow (now Duxbury) 3 Oct 1656.^[4] He was married twice, his first wife Rose travelled with him on the Mayflower, but she died in the first sickness 29 Jan 1620/1 without having any children. Capt. Standish married New Plimouth by 1624 to Barbara _____.

Miles Standish and (second wife) Barbara had seven children; one daughter (Lora, who apparently never married) and six sons (Charles [died young], Alexander, John [died young], Myles, Josiah and Charles [prob. never married])

Second Generation

Alexander Standish was born about 1626 and died 6 Jul 1702 "being about 76 years of age"^[5] He married twice, first abt 1660 to Sarah Alden (daughter of Mayflower passenger John Alden). After her death, he married by 1689 to Desire DOTY (Sherman)(Holmes) (her third husband, she was daughter of Mayflower passenger Edward Doty). By his first wife, Alexander had eight children: Lora(h), Lydia, Elizabeth, Mercy, Myles, Sarah, Ebenezer & David (died young). By his second wife he had three children: Desire, Thomas & Ichabod.

Myles Standish (II) was born at Plymouth 5 May 1629 and died at sea aft 20 Aug 1661. He married Boston 19 Jul 1660 to Sarah Winslow, daughter of John Winslow. They had no children.

Josiah (Josias) Standish was born at Plymouth about 1633. He married twice, first at Marshfield 19 Dec 1654 Mary Dingley.^[6] She died 1 Jul 1655, without having any children. He remarried before Aug 1669 to Sarah Allen.^[7] By his second wife, Josiah had eight children: Mary, Martha, Myles, Josiah, Samuel, Israel, Lois and Mercy.

1. ↑ Pilgrim Hall Museum Myles Standish Probate
2. ↑ MD 63(2014):138-49 "The Long-lost Portrait of Myles Standish Rediscovered" had "Aetetis suae 38. Anno 1625" However, there is some evidence where this inscription was added to the painting some time in the late 19th Century.
3. ↑ Despite claims made by various researchers, the parentage and ancestry of Capt. Standish has not been identified. Anderson's Mayflower Migration p. 166 gives the opinion that the most probable parentage of Myles was made by G.V.C. Young in 1984 claiming Myles was son of John Standish, son of another John Standish, who was son of Huan Standish of Ellanbane, Isle of Man. This is despite the fact Standish mentioned in his will how he lost out on his inheritance of various lands in England and the Isle of Man. The Mayflower Quarterly 72 [Jun 2006]:153-56 has an article by Jeremy D. Bangs which discusses this topic in depth.
4. ↑ MD 1:12-13; NEHGR 87:152
5. ↑ NEHGR 87:153
6. ↑ Marshfield published VRs, p. 1
7. ↑ will of her father, Samuel Allen 2 Aug 1669

DNA Results FT276288

Previous Y-DNA testing

Previous Y-STR testing through the Mayflower Societyand the Standish surname DNA project has suggested that the Standish lineage belongs to Y-DNA haplogroup I (defined by the marker M170, among others); further, one Standish kit has been further classified as I-L38 based on Y-STR results.

NGS/WGS Results

Two patrilineal (all male) descendants of Myles Standish have taken the Big Y-700 test. These two members descend from the two sons of Myles who left descendants (Alexander & Josiah) and since they match each other, we are confident this is the Haplogroup of Myles Standish. In addition, other Standish's have done DNA testing, with some of them belonging to the R Haplogroup (so are not related to Myles Standish) while others document a close relationship to Myles Standish (falling into clades immediately above the Myles FT276288 clade). The Myles Standish family results fall under: I-M170>P215>CTS2257>L460>P214>S2525>S2519>S2497>L38>S2606>FGC29656>BY1183>Y18919>S4556>BY14000>FT277048>FT276288

For more information see: Standish Y-DNA YouTube presentation by Mike Terry^[1]

Lines DNA tested

The following is the lineage of the two individuals who have taken the Big Y-700 test^[2]

 Myles Standish (c1584-1656)
   Alexander Standish (c1626-1702)
     Thomas Standish (1690/1-1789)
       David Standish (1723-1795)
         David Standish (II) (1758-1831)
           Thomas Standish
             James Standish
               father
                 Tester
   Josiah Standish (c1633-1690)
     Samuel Standish (1680-1753)
       Israel Standish (1721/2-1802)
         Nathan Standish (1753-    )
           Erastus Standish
             Edmund Standish
               Merit Standish
                 grandfather
                   father
                     Tester

1. ↑ Permission granted to post this link
2. ↑ Permission granted to post

References and External links

• Goodrich, Merton Taylor, New England Historical and Genealogical Register 87(1933):149-60 "The Children and Grandchildren of Capt. Myles Standish"
• Young, G. V. C., Myles Standish: First Manx American, Isle of Man 1984 (also More About Pilgrim Myles Standish 1987 and Ellanbane Was the Birthplace of Myes Standish 1988)
• Wakefield, Robert S. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: vol. 14 Standish General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 1997
• Anderson, Robert Charles The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2020 pp. 159-67
• Mayflower Quarterly 72[Jun 2006]:133-159 "Myles Standish, Born Where? The State of the Question," by Jeremy D. Bangs (provides an in-depth review of Myles Standish unknown parentage)
• Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings From the Files of George Ernest Bowman at the Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, Second edition 1995, 1996. pp. 106-109
• Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Passenger References (from contemporary records & scholarly journals), [www.stewartbooks.com Stewart Publishing & Printing], Canada 2nd Edition 2015
• Myles Standish Society
• Myles Standish Society Genealogy
• wikitree profile for Myles Standish