Born in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Rootes
and Susannah (Hickox) Root
Sister of
Justus Rootes, Gideon Rootes, Olive Rootes, Thomas Rootes, Susannah Rootes, Mabel Rootes, Jerusha (Rootes) Minor, Beulah (Root) Miner, Joseph Rootes, Joseph Rootes [half] and Ruth Rootes
Wife of
Seth Minor
— married
8 Mar 1757 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Adoniram Minor, Susanna Minor, Elizabeth (Minor) Root, Adoniram Minor 2nd, Seth Minor Jr., Phebe (Minor) Strong, Noah Minor, Eunice Minor, Esther Minor, Love Minor and Wait Minor
Died
at age 50
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Jul 2013
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Biography
Eunice Root (spelling in record) was born 7 April 1737 in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut Colony, to parents Joseph Rootes Susannah Hickox. She married Seth Minor 8 March 1757 in Woodbury.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. Volume: Woodbury, page 91. See record at subscription site.
- Ancestral File Number: 7TVX-GW
- Weeks, Frank Edgar. Biography of Deacon Benjamin Judson of Woodbury, Connecticut, With Names of His Descendants (Norwalk, Ohio, 1914) Page 4
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eunice by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Eunice:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Eunice by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Eunice:
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~0.78%
Mary Lou (Baskerville) Williams
:
23andMe
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AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Warren Towle :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A705476 [compare], Ancestry member WarrenTowle
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~0.78%
Stu Elston :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch JJ4601391 [compare], Ancestry member selston4611
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch jj4601391 [compare], FTDNA kit #920585
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~0.78%
Eric Wolcott :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch QE4309178 [compare], Ancestry member ewolcott33
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch WR6177946 [compare]
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~0.39%
Gwen Bridgwater :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Andy Wimberley :
23andMe, GEDmatch NY9031007 [compare]
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~0.39%
~6.25%
Larry Miller :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member lmiller434
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Rejected matches › Eunice (Minor) Jones (1729-1774)
Eunice is 13 degrees from Maria Mitchell, 25 degrees from Carl Sagan, 20 degrees from Tycho Brahe, 28 degrees from Nicholaus Copernicus, 22 degrees from Eise Eisinga, 19 degrees from Caroline Lucretia Herschel, 20 degrees from Thomas Maclear, 11 degrees from Simon Newcomb, 15 degrees from Isaac Newton, 23 degrees from Pierre Henri Puiseux, 19 degrees from Beatrice Tinsley and 13 degrees from Edith Woodward on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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