Hodsoll (mtDNA)

Status summary

Completed as of June 6, 2022:

• Recruiting matrilineal (direct female-line) Bennett HODSOLL Freeman descendants for full mtDNA testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

Biography

First Generation

Bennett Hodsoll was baptized Pulborough, Sussex, England 23 Aug 1596, daughter of John Hodsoll and Anne Maundy. Bennett was buried there 12 Apr 1630. She married Cowfold, Sussex 16 Jun 1617 and they had six children: Alice (1619), Edmund (1620), Bennett (1622 d.y), Elizabeth (1624), John (1626), Nathaniel (1629)

Second Generation

Alice Freeman was baptized Pulborough 4 Apr 1619 and died Plymouth 24 Apr 1651. She married Plymouth 24 Nov 1639 William Paddy and they had four children (Plymouth): Elizabeth (1641), John (1643), Mercy (1645) and Thomas (1647).

Elizabeth Freeman was baptized Pulborough 11 Apr 1624 and died Rochester 24 Jun 1692. She married Sandwich about 1643 John Ellis and they had ten children (Sandwich): Deborah (1643/4), Elizabeth (c1645), Bennett (1647/8), Mordecai (1650/1), Mathias (1657), Manoah (c1659), Freeman (1662), Gideon (c1663) and William (c1665).

Third Generation

Elizabeth Paddy was born Plymouth 12 Nov 1641 and died Boston 3 Feb 1710/1. She married about 1662 John Wensley and they had one child (Boston): Mercy (1668 m Joseph Bridgham & Thomas Cushing).

Deborah Ellis was born Sandwich 15 Jan 1643/4 and died Rochester 21 Jun 1711. She married Sandwich 1680 Joseph Doty and they had eight children: Ellis (1677), Elizabeth (c1680 m John Lewis), Joseph (1683), Deborah (1685 m Joseph Landers), John (1688), Mercy (1690), Faith (1696 m James Shaw) and Mary (1699 m Samuel Waterman).

Elizabeth Ellis was born Sandwich about 1645 and died there about 1688. She married Sandwich 1664 Samuel Briggs and they had six children (Sandwich): Elizabeth (1665 m John Benson), Bennett (1667 m James Stewart), Ebenezer (1671), Samuel (1674), Hannah (1675 m John Barrow) and John (c1676).

Bennett Ellis was born Sandwich 27 Feb 1648/9 and died Bristol (now in RI) aft 21 Jan 1702 She married Plymouth about 1668 Obadiah Eddy and they had nine children: John (1669), Hazadiah (1672 m Abraham Sampson (Y-DNA)#Third Generation Samuel Sampson (II)), Benjamin (c1673), Mercy (c1674 m Samuel Sampson (II)), Samuel (1675), Jabez (1677), Bennett (1678 m Israel Woodward), Elizabeth (1683 m David Delano) and Hannah (c1690 m Aaron Clark).

DNA results TBD

Previous mtDNA testing

To date, no known direct female line descendants of Bennett HODSOLL Freeman are known to have done mtDNA testing and published their results. Anyone who believes they descend in a direct female line (ie mother's mother's mother's etc mother) is encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com