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− | ==Status summary==
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− | As of November 25, 2020:
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− | * No matrilineal descendants, although she had at least four other sisters
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− | * Low priority
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− | ==Paper Trail==
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− | Alice Carpenter was born about 1590<ref>called "fourscore years of age" (80) at the time of her death.</ref> in England, the daughter of Alexander Carpenter and Priscilla (Drusilla) Dillen. She was married twice, first in Leiden, Holland, 28 May 1613, to [[Southworth (Y-DNA)#First Generation |Edward Southworth]], then at New Plimouth 14 Aug 1623 to [[Bradford (Y-DNA)#First Generation |Gov. William Bradford]]. Alice died at Plymouth on 26 Mar 1670.<ref>MD 18:68</ref> By her first husband, Alice and Edward Southworth had two sons, Constant and Thomas. By her second husband, Alice and Gov. William Brewster had three children: William, Mercy and Joseph.
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− | Alice had sisters Agnes, Juliana, Mary and Priscilla, so it may be possible to discover her mtDNA from her sisters' matrilineal descendants.
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− | ===Second Generation===
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− | Mercy Bradford was born in new Plimouth by May 1627.<ref>Named in 1627 Cattle Division</ref> She married Plymouth 21 Dec 1648 Benjamin Vermayes of Boston.<ref>Plymouth Colony Records 8:5</ref> Neither Mercy, nor any of her children, were mentioned in Gov. Bradford's 1657 will, so it is assumed she died shortly after marriage, with no surviving children.
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− | ==Summary of findings==
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− | It would appear that there are no known direct matrilineal descendants of Alice Carpenter.
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− | ==External links and references==
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− | * Lainhart, Ann S. and Robert S. Wakefield, ''Mayflower Families through Five Generations vol. 22: Bradford'' General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 2004
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− | * Roser, Susan E. ''Mayflower Passenger References (from Contemporary Records and Scholarly Journals)'' Stewart Publishing Co., Canada, 2nd ed. 2015, pp. 90-129
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− | * Anderson, Robert Charles, ''The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620'' New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020, pp. 34-40
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− | * Bowman, George E., ''Mayflower Descendant'' 3(Jul 1901):144-49, "Alice (Carpenter) (Southworth) Bradford's Will and Inventory"
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− | * Campbell, Kay, ''The Mayflower Quarterly'' 65(Aug 1999):277, "Governor Bradford-Alice Southworth Marriage"
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− | * [https://www.pilgrimhall.org/alice_carpenter_bradford.htm Pilgrim Hall biography of Alice CARPENTER Southworth Bradford]
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