Faunce (Y-DNA)

Status summary

As of February 28, 2025:

• Recruiting patrilineal (all male-line) descendants of John Faunce for NGS/WGS testing. Folks who believe they are patrilineal (all male line) descendants should Read me First

IMPORTANT: Read me First

Paper trail

First Generation

John Faunce was born ca 1607 and died Plymouth 29 Nov 1653. He married abt 1632 Patience Morton and they had eight children (Plymouth): Priscilla (c 1633 m Joseph Warren), Mary (c 1638 m William Harlow), Patience (c 1641), Sarah (c 1643 m Edward Doty & John Buck), Thomas (c 1647), Elizabeth (1648/9-1649/50), Mercy (1651) and Joseph (1653)

Second Generation

(Elder) Thomas Faunce was born Plymouth about 1647 and died there 27 Feb 1746. He married there 12 Dec 1672 Jane Nelson and they had seven children: Patience (1673), John (1678), Martha (1680), Priscilla (1684), Thomas (1687), Joannah (1689) and Jane/Jean (1692).

Joseph Faunce was born Plymouth 14 May 1653 and died there died bef 11 Mar 1724/5 (inventory). He married Plymouth 3 Jan 1677 Judith Rickard and they had nine children: Hannah (1678 m. Ephraim Morton & John Cooke), Mary (1681), John (1683), Mercy (1686-1687), Mehitable (1689), Joseph (1693), Eleazer (1695/6), Thomas (1698) and Benjamin (1703).

Third Generation

John Faunce was born Plymouth 19 Sep 1678 and died there 19 Mar 1766. He married Plymouth 20 Nov 1705 Abigail Bryant and they had six children (Plymouth): Nathaniel (1706-1732 unm.), John (1709-1734 m Ruth Sampson, but only had 1 dau.), Mercy/Mary (1711), Abigail (1715), Jane (1717) and Patience (1721). In conclusion, there is no surviving Y-DNA line for this John Faunce.

Thomas Faunce (II) was born Plymouth 18 Mar 1687 and died there bef 16 Jun 1749 (probate). He married twice, first Plymouth 12 Jul 1711 Sarah Ford then Plymouth 29 May 1718 Lydia Barnaby. By his first wife he had two daughters (Plymouth): Hannah (1713-1716) and Sarah (1716). By his second wife he had eight more children (Plymouth): James (1719), Thomas (1721), Ruth (1723), Barnaby (1726-1728), Seth (1729-1729), Peleg (1730), Susan/Sarah (d.y.) and Lydia.

DNA Results

NGS/WGS testing

NGS/WGS testing is needed to fully refine the haplogroup.

References and External Resources

• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633" (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2004) pp. 201-203.

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