Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Daughter of Moses Belcher
and Hannah (Lyon) Belcher
Sister of
Hannah (Belcher) Tucker, Abigail Belcher, William Belcher, Elijah Belcher and Mary (Belcher) Tyler
Wife of
Timothy Lester I
— married
before 1 Oct 1741 (to 9 Mar 1776) in Preston, New London, Connecticut Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Elisha Lester, Mary Lester, Mehitable (Lester) Coit, Timothy Lester II, Elijah Lester and Lydia (Lester) Paine
Died
at age 57
[location unknown]
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| Created 13 Mar 2016
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Biography
Mehitable Belcher was born November 4, 1718 in Milton, Norfolk, MA, USA. She was the daughter of Moses Belcher and Hannah Lyon.[1]
She married her husband Timothy Lester on October 1, 1741 in Preston, New London, CT.[2]
She passed away March 9, 1776 in Griswold, New London, CT, USA.[3]
Sources
- ↑ Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
- ↑ Bailey, Frederic W. Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1997.
- ↑ Connecticut, Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934, FHL film number 3160
- The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records (NEHGS, Boston, 2011) Vol. Preston, Page 129. Marriage record.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mehitable 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 Mehitable:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mehitable 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 Mehitable:
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~0.39%
~1.56%
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~0.39%
~6.25%
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