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[https://tng.soulekindred.org/getperson.php?personID=I60&tree=georgesouletree Zachariah Soule] was born before the 1627 Cattle division. He possibly married by 1663 Margaret ______.<ref>NOT in Soule Kindred genealogy database.</ref> Zachariah is not known to have had any children.<ref>ibid.</ref>
 
[https://tng.soulekindred.org/getperson.php?personID=I60&tree=georgesouletree Zachariah Soule] was born before the 1627 Cattle division. He possibly married by 1663 Margaret ______.<ref>NOT in Soule Kindred genealogy database.</ref> Zachariah is not known to have had any children.<ref>ibid.</ref>
  
[https://tng.soulekindred.org/getperson.php?personID=I61&tree=georgesouletree John Soule] was born about 1632.<ref>deposed on 8 Mar 1705/6 aged "about seventy four years" from Plymouth Land Records 7:35</ref> He married twice, first about 1656 to Rebeca Simmons (Simonson) (daughter of ''Fortune'' Passenger Moses Simmons/Simonson) and second, by 1679 to Esther (_____) Samson, widow of Samuel Samson. By his first wife, he had nine children: Rebecca, James, Sarah, Rachel, Aaron, Rebecca, Zachariah, Moses & John. By his second wife he had three sons: Joseph, Josiah & Joshua
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[https://tng.soulekindred.org/getperson.php?personID=I61&tree=georgesouletree John Soule] was born about 1632.<ref>deposed on 8 Mar 1705/6 aged "about seventy four years" from Plymouth Land Records 7:35</ref> He married twice, first about 1656 to Rebeca Simmons (Simonson) (daughter of ''Fortune'' Passenger Moses Simmons/Simonson) and second, by 1679 to Esther (_____) Samson, widow of Samuel Samson. By his first wife, he had nine children: Rebecca, James, Sarah, Rachel, Aaron, Benjamin, Zachariah, Moses & John. By his second wife he had three sons: Joseph, Josiah & Joshua
  
 
[https://tng.soulekindred.org/getperson.php?personID=I63&tree=georgesouletree Nathaniel Soule] was born abt 1640. He fathered a child by an Native American woman bef Mar 1673/4. He married by 1681 to Rose _____. By Rose, he had four sons: Nathaniel, Silvanus, Jacob & Miles.
 
[https://tng.soulekindred.org/getperson.php?personID=I63&tree=georgesouletree Nathaniel Soule] was born abt 1640. He fathered a child by an Native American woman bef Mar 1673/4. He married by 1681 to Rose _____. By Rose, he had four sons: Nathaniel, Silvanus, Jacob & Miles.

Revision as of 15:26, 30 October 2020

Status summary

As of December 30, 2015:

  • Soule surname project contacted
  • Recruiting Soule for Y Elite test

Paper trail

First Generation

George Soule was born before 1600[1] and died between 20 Sep 1677 - 22 Jan 1679/80.[2] He married Mary Buckett/Beckett at New Plimouth about 1625. They had nine children; four daughters and five sons (Zachariah, John, Nathaniel, George & Benjamin)

Second Generation

Zachariah Soule was born before the 1627 Cattle division. He possibly married by 1663 Margaret ______.[3] Zachariah is not known to have had any children.[4]

John Soule was born about 1632.[5] He married twice, first about 1656 to Rebeca Simmons (Simonson) (daughter of Fortune Passenger Moses Simmons/Simonson) and second, by 1679 to Esther (_____) Samson, widow of Samuel Samson. By his first wife, he had nine children: Rebecca, James, Sarah, Rachel, Aaron, Benjamin, Zachariah, Moses & John. By his second wife he had three sons: Joseph, Josiah & Joshua

Nathaniel Soule was born abt 1640. He fathered a child by an Native American woman bef Mar 1673/4. He married by 1681 to Rose _____. By Rose, he had four sons: Nathaniel, Silvanus, Jacob & Miles.

George Soule (II) was born about 1639 and married by 1681 to Deborah _____. They had eight children: George, William, John, Nathan, Deborah, Mary, Lydia & Sarah.

Benjamin Soule was born about 1652 and died unmarried in King Philip's War on 25 Mar 1676.

  1. He signed the Mayflower Compact and likely of age in Dec 1620.
  2. codicil to will-date of inventory
  3. NOT in Soule Kindred genealogy database.
  4. ibid.
  5. deposed on 8 Mar 1705/6 aged "about seventy four years" from Plymouth Land Records 7:35

DNA Results I-A20032

Previous Y-DNA testing

Previous Y-STR testing through the Mayflower Society[1] and the Soule surname DNA project[2] has indicated that the Mayflower Soule lineage belongs to the Y haplogroup I-M253, which is quite common in Northern and Northwestern Europe. More specifically, the Soule lineage can be classified within I-M253 as DF29>Z58>Z59>Z60>Z140>Z2535>S1954>S12289>A20032.

Y-DNA descendants of George Soule have begun to identify their own subclades below A20032. Descendants of son John have been found to be BY32573 while descendants of Nathaniel have been found to be ZW20.[3]


  1. https://www.familytreedna.com/public/mayflowersociety/default.aspx?section=ycolorized
  2. https://www.familytreedna.com/public/GeorgeSoule/default.aspx?section=ycolorized
  3. Big Y results document where three sons of George Soule each had a mutation unique to their line. George (II) had I-YSC00000261, John had I-BY32573, and Nathaniel had I-A20044.

References and External Links

  • Soule, John E. and Milton Terry (3rd edition revised by Louise Walsh Throop), Mayflower Families in Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA. 7th edition 2015.
  • Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Passenger References (from contemporary records & scholarly journals) [www.stewartbooks.com Stewart Publishing & Printing], Canada. Second Edition, 2015
  • Soule Kindred of America genealogy database