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)

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

References & External Links

• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633), New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA 1995