Grinnell (Y-DNA)

Status summary

Completed as of January 31, 2022:

• Recruiting patrilineal (all male-line) Daniel Grinnell descendants (and preferably through his son Daniel) for NGS/WGS SNP testing. Any male who believes they are such a descendant should Read me First

IMPORTANT: Read me First

Still to do as of October 29, 2020

• NGS/WGS test multiple Grinnell descendants to firmly place family clade as well as discover any subclades unique to descendants' lines

Biography

For more information see: Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford (ed. by Alicia Crane Williams), Mayflower Family Through Five Generations, Vol. 16 Alden

First Generation

[1] Daniel Grinnell (II)[2] son of Daniel Grinnell and Mary Wodell, was born Portsmouth, RI abt 1666 and died Saybrook (now Westbrook), CT 7 Jan 1740/1. He married abt 1683 Lydia Pabodie and they had eleven children: Mary (c1685), Elizabeth (c1687), Priscilla (c1689), Peabody (c1691), Ruth (c1692 d.y.), Lydia (c1693), Rebecca (c1695), Sarah (c1698), George (1702), Jemima (1704/5) and Daniel (1707/8-b1726 unm.)

Second Generation

[3] Peabody Grinnell(Paybody) was born Little Compton abt 1691. He married twice, first Saybrook (now Westbrook) 8 Apr 1718 Ruth Nettleton and second Saybrook (now Westbrook) 20 Mar 1732/3 Sarah Barnes. By his first wife he had six children: Daniel (1717/8-1727), Ruth (1721/2), Lydia (1723), Jasper (1726/7), Barber (1727/8), and Hannah (1731/2). By his second wife he had eight more children: Pabody (1733/4), Samuel (1735/6-1760 unm.), Sarah (1738), Elizabeth (1740), Jonathan (1742/3), Sylvester (1745/6 d.y.), Jemima (1747) and John (c1749 likely unm.)

[4] George Grinnell[5] was born Little Compton 12 Apr 1702 and died Saybrook, CT 11 Dec 1759. He married Saybrook 31 Jan 1725/6 Mary Bull and they had nine children: William (1726/7), Daniel (1729), Mary (1731), Anne (1734), Phebe (1736), Rebecca (1738), Lydia (1741/2), Lucy (1746) and Temperance (1748)

Third Generation

[6] Jasper Grinnell was born Saybrook (now Westbrook) 29 Jan 1726/7 and died Salisbury, CT 10 Mar 1820. He married Saybrook 31 May 1749 Sarah Hill and they had eight children: Beulah (1749/50), Michael (1751/2 m Susannah Balcom), Jasper (1754 m Mary Utter), Noah (1757 d.y.), Noah (1760 m Lydia London & Sally Bird), David (1763 m Abigail Hubbell), Seth (1761 prob. unm.) and Abel (1773-1793 unm.)

[7] Barber/Barbour Grinnell was born Saybrook (now Westbook) 19 Feb 1727/8 and died Clinton, CT 12 Nov 1815. He married Killingworth, CT 2 Jan 1751/2 Margaret Kelsey and they had twelve children: Margaret (1753-1755), Barber (1755-1762), William Barber (1757 m Sarah Griffin), Ruth (1759), Samuel (1761-1762), Lovice (1763), Anna (1765), Margaret (1767), Hannah (1769), Lydia (1772-1773), Levi Barber (c1774 m Hannah ___) and Hannah (c1777).

[8] Pabody Grinnell was born Saybrook (now Westbrook) 12 Feb 1733/4 and died Salisbury, CT 12 Dec 1782. He married Saybrook 8 Mar 1758 Charity Chapman and they had eleven children: Charity (1758), Hannah (1760), Roxanna (c1763), Samuel (c1765 m Rebecca Woodworth), Tabitha (c1767 d.y.), Phebe (c1769), Chapman (1772 m Elizabeth Nash), Peabody (1774-b1790), Tabitha (1776), James (1779 m Polly Vosburg) and Sylvester (1781 m Rhoda Staples & Hannah Morrison).

[9] Jonathan Grinnell was born Saybrook (now Westbrook) 6 Mar 1742/3 and died Dorset, VT 4 Dec 1821. He married Westbrook, CT 7 Jan 1771 Judith Waterhouse and they had thirteen children: Abigail (c1771), Peabody, Sally, Lydia (c1780), Jonathan (c1782), Abram (c1783), Rhoda, John (1786 m Lydia Rudd), Martha, Wealthy, Sylvester Daton (1791 m ___), Lucy and Judith

[10] William Grinnell was born Westbrook 26 Feb 1726/7 and died there 25 Nov 1760. He married abt 1747 Mary ?Wise? and they had eight children: Hester/Esther (1747/8), Dorothea (1749), George (1750 m Lydia Stephens), William (1752 m Lucy Clarke & Lucy Kinney/Kenney), Wine (1754 m Temperance Cone), Marah (1757), Caroline "Lina" (1759) and Submit (1761).

[11] Daniel Grinnell was born Westbrook Apr 1729 and died Greenfield, NY 21 Dec 1801. He married abt 1751 Ann Chapman and they had twelve children: Daniel (1752 m Anna Everest), Amasa (1754 m Rachel ___), Reuben (1755 m Mabel Everts Martin), Charlotte (1757 d.y.), Aaron (1759-1768), Charlotte (1761), Benjamin (1764 m Phebe Denison), Ezra (1766 m Olive Parker), Aaron (1769 m Betsey ___), Ann (1771), Asenath (1774) and Elect (1774).

DNA results I1-M253

Previous Y-DNA testing

As of January 31, 2022 Family Tree DNA does not have a Grinnell surname DNA Project, but has 23 kits associated with the Grinnell surname. There is one individual who claims Y-DNA descent from Matthew Grinnell (grandfather of Daniel Grinnell (II) in the Mayflwer DNA Project subgroup: XX - Alden, John YDNA/FF Tests. This individual has not done Y-SNP testing, and has only done 37-YSTR testing to date. FTDNA has predicted he would fall under the I1-M253 haplogroup.

Further needed testing

We need patrilineal (all male-line) descendants of Daniel Grinnell (and preferably through his son Daniel) to WGS/NGS test to confirm and further refine the haplogroup placement.

References & External Links

• Woodworth-Barnes, Esther Littleford (ed. by Alicia Crane Williams), Mayflower Family Through Five Generations, Vol. 16 Alden General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA part 1 (first four generations) 1999; part 2 (fifth generation of daughter Elizabeth) 2002