Carey (mtDNA)

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Status summary

As of January 20, 2023

  • Page created for Sarah Carey, wife of John Jenney
  • Recruitment of individuals who believe they are mtDNA descendants of Sarah CAREY Jenney are encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

Paper Trail

First Generation

Sarah Carey was born Monk Sohan, Suffolkshire, England about 1590 and died Plymouth 18 Feb 1655/6. She married Leiden "first" of Nov 1614 John Jenney and thy had eight children: Samuel (1616), son (c1618 likely d.y.), Ann (1618-1618), Abigail (1619), Sarah (c1623), poss. son[1] (by 1623-bef 1627), John (b 1627) and Susanna (c1627).

Second Generation

Abigail Jenney was born (baptized?) Leiden 16 Apr 1619 and died Middleborough 1690. She married Plymouth 18 Apr 1644 Henry Wood (alias Atwood) and they had thirteen children (Plymouth): Sarah (1645), John (1646), Samuel (1647), Jonathan (1648/9), David (1651), Joseph (1653), Isaac (1654-1655), Abigail (1655), Benjamin (1655), Mary (1657), Abiel (son, 1658), James (1660) and Susanna (c1662).

Sarah Jenney was poss. born on their parent's trip to New Plimouth aboard the Little James in 1623. She died Dartmouth 12 Mar 1710. She married Plymouth 19 May 1646 Thomas Pope and they had seven children (Plymouth): Seth (1647/8), Susanna (1649), Thomas (1651), John (1653), Sarah (c1656), Joanna (1656) and Isaac (1663).

Susannah Jenney was born New Plimouth shortly before the "Cattle Division" in May 1627 and died Plymouth 4 Apr 1654. She married Plymouth abt 1652 Benjamin Bartlett but they had no children before her early death.

Third Generation

Fourth Generation

Mehitable Nelson, daughter of John Nelson and Sarah Wood (Abigail Jenney, Sarah Carey) was born Plymouth 5 Apr 1670 and died there bef 25 Apr 1745. She married Plymouth 2 Feb 1693 John Doty and they had seven children (Plymouth): Mehitable (1694), Edward (1697), John (1700), Jacob (1703), Sarah (1707 likely unm.), Susannah (1710) and Lydia (1713).

Fifth Generation

Mehitable Doty was born Plymouth 4 Nov 1694 and died there 18 Feb 1769. She married Plymouth 4 May 1722 William Lucas and they had seven children (Plymouth): William (1723-1734), Phebe (1725-b1748), Priscilla (1727), Joseph (1729), Benjamin (1729), Isaac (1731), William (1734) and Mehitable (1737).

Susannah Doty was born Plymouth 20 Apr 1710 and died there aft 16 Nov 1750. She married Plymouth 29 Apr 1739 John Finney and they had six children: Josiah (1740), Robert (1741), Ezra (1745), Sylvanus (1745), Ephraim (1748) and William (1750).

Lydia Doty was born Plymouth 2 Feb 1713 and died Carver 14 Nov 1768. She married John Lucas and they had three children (Plymouth): Joseph (1742), John (1744) and Hannah (1750).

mtDNA Results TBD

As of January 1, 2023, no matrilineal (direct female-line) descendants of Sarah Carey (maternal grandmother of Mehitable Nelson) have publicly revealed where they have mtDNA tested. Any such descendants are encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

References and External Links

  • Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, vol. 17:Allerton General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA 1998, reprinted 2018.
  • Anderson, Robert Charles, The Mayflower Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth, 1620 New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 2020 pp. 24-29


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  1. Anderson, The Great Migration Begins stated John and Sarah had a son born on the journey to New Plimouth in 1623. Other sources state it was daughter Sarah who was born on the journey.