Ring (Y-DNA)
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Status summary
Completed as of October 6, 2020:
- Recruiting additional direct male-line Andrew Ring descendants for further SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact Raymond T. Wing (email: wing.genealogist AT gmail DOT com)
Still to do as of October 1, 2020
- NGS/WGS test multiple descendants of William Ring (and preferably through son Andrew) to firmly place family clade as well as test descendants to discover any subclades unique to descendants lines
Biography
First Generation
Andrew Ring was born in Leiden about 1618[1], son of William Ring & Mary Durrant.[2] William attempted to emigrate with the Leiden Congregation in 1620, but due to the unseaworthyness of the Speedwell he was left behind and died at Leiden sometime before 1629. Widow Mary brought her children over in 1629 or 1630 and settled in Plymouth, where she died in Jul 1631. William & Mary had two daughters (Elizabeth & Susanna) and a son, Andrew who came over to Plymouth.
Andrew married twice. His first married at Plymouth 23 Apr 1646 Deborah Hopkins, and his second marriage was about 1674 to Lettice (_____), widow of John Morton. Andrew & first wife, Deborah, had six children: Elizabeth, William, Eleazer, Mary, Deborah (presum. unmarried in father's will) and Susanna (presum. unmarried in father's will).
Second Generation
William Ring was born Plymouth about 1652 and died about 1730. He married Plymouth 13 Jul 1693 to Hannah Sherman. They had six children: Deborah (1695/6-1696), Hannah (1697-1718), William (1699-1728 unm.), Elizabeth (1701/2), Eleazer (1704/5-1734/5 unm.) and Deborah (1708/9 m Caleb Sherman, but no ch.)
Eleazer Ring was born Plymouth 7 Nov 1665 and died there 21 Nov 1749. He married there 11 Jan 1687/8 Mary Shaw and they had twelve children: Eleazer (1688-1688), Andrew (1689-1691), Phebe (1691/2), Samuel (1693/4), Andrew (1696), Deborah (1698), Mary (1700), Jonathan (1702), Susanna (1705), Elkanah (1706 presum. unm.), Elizabeth (1708) and Lydia (1710).
Third Generation
Samuel Ring was born Plymouth 12 Mar 1693/4 and died Kingston 8 May 1768. He married Plympton 28 Jan 1724/5 Ruth SYLVESTER Cooke and they had eleven children (born Kingston): George (1726 m Lucretia Chipman), Grace (1727), Grace (twin 1730), Lydia (twin 1730), Mary (1731/2), Samuel (1733/4-1747), Elizabeth (1736), Francis (1737/8 m Molly Weston), Louisa (1740), Eliphaz (1742/3 m Rebecca Weston) and Eleazer (1744-1744).
Andrew Ring was born Plymouth 28 Mar 1696 and died No. Yarmouth, ME 17 Nov 1744. He married Plympton 20 May 1724 Zerviah Standish (desc. Myles Standish & John Alden) and they had eight children (first three at Kingston, others at No. Yarmouth): Mary (1724/5), Andrew (1727-1729), Susanna (1730), Hannah (1733), William (1735 m Deborah Loring), Sarah (1737), Eleazer (1740 m Olive Mitchell & Mary Sweetser) and Deborah (1742).
Jonathan Ring was born Plymouth 23 Dec 1702 and died Worthington abt 1774. He married Kingston 21 Jan 1747/8 Sara Mitchell and they had seven children (born Kingston): Andrew (1748-1748/9), Eleazer (1749 m Elizabeth Day Spaulding, Abigail Joslyn & Damaris Johnson), Joseph (1751 m Penelope Patch), Sarah (1754), Jonathan (1757 m Hannah Angell), Molly (1760) and Elkanah (1762 prob. dy).
- ↑ Died Plymouth 22 Feb 1692/3 "in the 75th year of his age" (MD 4:193)
- ↑ William and Mary were married Ufford, Suffolkshire, England 21 May 1601.
DNA results
Previous Y-DNA testing
The Ring & Ring* DNA Project does not list the Most Distant Known Paternal Ancestors in their public display, so it is impossible to tell whether any individuals are Y-DNA descendants from this family.
Further needed testing
We need additional direct male-line descendants of this Ring family to WGS/NGS test to discover where this family falls in the Y-DNA tree.
References & External Links
- Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 6 Hopkins General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA. 3rd edition 2001
- The American Genealogist, vol. 42, pp. 193-205, "The Widow Mary Ring of Plymouth, Mass., and her Children", John Insley Coddington
