funny history story here... Been reading up on colonial Connecticut and one of the books I've read was by a gal named Smith whose ancestors had all been ministers beginning in very early colonial CT.
Anyway - The first one was located in Wethersfield CT which was one of the earliest CT towns. Apparently he was the third in a line of ministers because the town residents had left Watertown MA - which was the big one very early on in that period - in a huff due to religious and voting disputes between very conservative and more moderate Puritan factions (my Olmstead ancestors led by Thomas Hooker also left at the same time). The previous ministers had been forced to leave by a faction in the town led by... Wait for it... Thomas Wright - our Vermont Branch Ancestor.... :D:D:D. He was one of the younger sons of the Baron Sir Wright back in England. Guess that with so few folks in the colony back then there was a lot of overlap...
Hi folks: Haven't posted for some time. just reading up a bit. It's funny but Native blood rumors abounded in my family as well. Y- Dna and Genealogy proved this was untrue. No native blood at all. A branch of my Plymouth Wright family settled in Ct. At Winchester and stayed right there for 7 generations. They are still there. My eighth cousin came to visit me here in Ontario where I live this summer past. He was also one of the cousins I had test for Family Tree Dna. If anyone is interested I could post the Three certificates. Y- Dna mutates very slowly and 37 markers for family proof are the best. You can actually Identify up to 12 generations and after that there is 67 marker 111 and even more. big Y they call it
Gerald Sanford Hayes and others, if your Indian lineage is more than 5 gens back it probably won't show is what I am told. I have several lines and almost 2 00 years back not more recent. So it showed on my Aunt's DNA but not on mine. Had long talk with DNA people about it. Some Indian lines are farther back into the 1600's.Sure wish I had been able to do my four Great Grandmoms and Dad's. It also seems to make a difference if Y or Mt. I have both sides almost all lines.
Jay H. Wright
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funny history story here... Been reading up on colonial Connecticut and one of the books I've read was by a gal named Smith whose ancestors had all been ministers beginning in very early colonial CT.
https://archive.org/details/colonialdaysway00evergoog
This is a GREAT read by itself...
Anyway - The first one was located in Wethersfield CT which was one of the earliest CT towns. Apparently he was the third in a line of ministers because the town residents had left Watertown MA - which was the big one very early on in that period - in a huff due to religious and voting disputes between very conservative and more moderate Puritan factions (my Olmstead ancestors led by Thomas Hooker also left at the same time). The previous ministers had been forced to leave by a faction in the town led by... Wait for it... Thomas Wright - our Vermont Branch Ancestor.... :D:D:D. He was one of the younger sons of the Baron Sir Wright back in England. Guess that with so few folks in the colony back then there was a lot of overlap...
:D Best Regards.
Jay
Mar 21, 2017
Gerald S. Hayes U.E.
Hi folks: Haven't posted for some time. just reading up a bit. It's funny but Native blood rumors abounded in my family as well. Y- Dna and Genealogy proved this was untrue. No native blood at all. A branch of my Plymouth Wright family settled in Ct. At Winchester and stayed right there for 7 generations. They are still there. My eighth cousin came to visit me here in Ontario where I live this summer past. He was also one of the cousins I had test for Family Tree Dna. If anyone is interested I could post the Three certificates. Y- Dna mutates very slowly and 37 markers for family proof are the best. You can actually Identify up to 12 generations and after that there is 67 marker 111 and even more. big Y they call it
Mar 26, 2017
Susi (Susan C Jones) Pentico
Gerald Sanford Hayes and others, if your Indian lineage is more than 5 gens back it probably won't show is what I am told. I have several lines and almost 2 00 years back not more recent. So it showed on my Aunt's DNA but not on mine. Had long talk with DNA people about it. Some Indian lines are farther back into the 1600's.Sure wish I had been able to do my four Great Grandmoms and Dad's. It also seems to make a difference if Y or Mt. I have both sides almost all lines.
Mar 26, 2017