Wood (Y-DNA)

Status summary

Completed as of October 10, 2020:

• Recruiting direct male-line descendants of Henry Wood for further SNP testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

Still to do as of September 29, 2020

• NGS/WGS test actual descendants of Henry Wood to discover wheir subclade as well as possible descendants lines.

Biography

First Generation

Henry Wood was born in England before 1620 and died in Middleborough before 30 Sep 1670. His first known record was 16 Sep 1641 when he was granted 8 acres in Plymouth. He married Abigail Jenney and they had twelve children: Sarah (c1645), John (c1646-1673 unm.), Samuel (1648), Jonathan (1649/50-1675 unm.), David (1651 m Mary Barker), Joseph (1653 m Hester Walker & Abigail Paul), Abigail (c1654), Benjamin (1655-1694 unm.), Abiel (c1658 m Abijah Bowen), James (c1662), Susanna (c1665) and Mary (c1667).

Second Generation

Samuel Wood was born Yarmouth 25 May 1647 and died Halifax 3 Feb 1718. He married before 1 Jun 1675 Rebecca Morton and had eight children (Middleborough): Joanna (c1674), Henry (b1678), Ephraim (1679), Rebecca (1682), Samue (1684), Anne (1686/7), Jabez (c1690) and Susannah (c1695).

James Wood was born about 1659 in Middleborough and died there 24 Dec 1728. He married Bridgewater 12 Apr 1693 Experience Fuller and had seven children: Lydia (1694), Jonathan (1697), James (1699), Barnabas (c1701), Benjamin (1703), Abel (1706) (m Thankful Landers and Ichabod (c1709).

Third Generation

(Deacon) Ephraim Wood was born Middleborough 16 Jan 1679 and died there 9 Jul 1744. He married twice, first before 1710 Elizabeth Vaugh(a)n, and second about 1723 Patience Nichols (no children). By his first wife, Deacon Ephraim had at least six children (Middleborough): Josiah (1710), Samuel (1713), Ephraim (1715), Rebecca (1717), Isaac (1719-1727), Bathsheba (1724). Some sources state they also had Susanna (c1722) and Manasseh (1729).

DNA results FT36574

Previous Y-DNA testing

The Wood/Woods Y-DNA Project Group 13 currently has nine individuals, all close STR matches to each other, with four claiming Henry Wood as their ancestor. FTDNA predicts the family falls under R1b-M269. Plugging in the modal values for the 111 STR markers into the NEVGEN Haplogroup Predictor tool fails to list any clade with any probability. STR marker DYS492=13 is a very strong indicator (>95%) of the family falling under R1b-U106.

NGS Testing

One individual has apparently done a Big Y test and has been found to fall under R-P312>ZZ11>DF27>Z195>Z198>CTS4188>S14445>Z29704>BY3268>BY139899>BY165849>FT36574

Further needed testing

We would need Y-DNA descendants of Henry Wood to take NGS/WGS tests to pin down the haplogroup, as well as possibly define subclades for various branches of the family.

References & External Links

Atwood, Elijah Francis, Ye Atte Wode Annals. June 1928, Giving English History, Descendants of Harman, Henry, John, Philip, Stephen, Thomas of Ipswich and Thomas of Wethersfield, Sketch of John and James Atwood, of Henry Wood of Leyden and the Story of Joshua 4 Bradford and the Indians, Etc privately published, WI 1928