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Damaris Bishop was born about 1646 in Eastham, Massachusetts, daughter of Richard and Alice (Martin) (Clark) Bishop. Damaris' mother was hanged for the murder of her own child in 1648 when Damaris was just 2 years of age.
Damaris married William Sutton 11 Jul 1666 in Eastham.[1][2][3][4]
Children born in Eastham, Massachusetts:[1]
children born in Piscataway, New Jersey:[5]
William and Damaris clearly removed from Eastham to Piscataway sometime between 1671 and 1674.
Damaris's death is listed in a transcribed record as "Feb. 6, 1682 (?3).in Piscataway, New Jersey.[6] [7]
The copy of Sutton's Genealogical Notes of the Sutton Family on Archive.org [5] has typewritten additions and corrections by the author (p 48+). Among other things, these notes make the case that Damaris' husband William was son of George Sutton of Scituate, Massachusetts, who later removed to North Carolina at least in part because Quakers were persecuted in Massachusetts (less so in North Carolina), while William and Damaris similarly removed from Eastham to Piscataway, New Jersey, for similar reasons. That he was the son of George ha been disputed. In fact, DNA evidence collected by the Family Tree DNA Sutton Family DNA Project has proven that William was not the son of George as George's and William's descendants belong to different Y haplogroups.George Sutton is Haplogroup I and William Sutton is R1b. The paternal Y-DNA public results chart is available at: Sutton Family DNA Project Y-DNA chart
Damaris's death date is transcribed as Feb 6, 1682 (?3). Damaris's husband, William married his second wife, Jane Barnes, on 3 Jan 1683 or 1684 (the record is also unlcear on that.) [8] The only thing that is clear here is it is extremely unlikely that Damaris died in Feb 1683 AND William married Jane in Jan 1683. While either could be true, both are very unlikely.
Child Joseph, born 11 Sep 1693 is listed as being the son of Damaris and WIlliam, but this apepars unlikely as it is 11-12 years after the previous child was born, and at least eight months after Damaris's death.
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There would have had to be multiple NPEs among multiple children with men of the same haplogroup for the explanation to be as you suggest.
If there was any evidence at all that they were actually father and son, the DNA evidence would have to be weighed against that with all that in mind. But no one has ever been able to uncover any evidence at all that they are father and son, which increases the relative weight of evidence to the contrary.
It's one thing to be less than 100% certain that people are not related. It's an entirely different matter to claim a relationship in the we absence of any evidence at all.
I'd like to suggest moving the information on Joseph's birth to a research note with the above information provided for others who come across that source. Also, the source can be listed for the births of children in Piscataway.
edited by Kathryn McCollough
edited by Raymond Watts PhD
Rowland, Olive Barrick,. An ancestral chart and handbook : genealogical notes of the Sutton and Rittenhouse families of Hunterdon County, New Jersey : with Mattison, Bonham, Fuller, and Fox connections, and some record of the Barrick and Shepherd families. Richmond: Garrett & Massie, 1935. Page 4 says the following: Damaris Sutton died February 6, 1682-3. This date is to be found in the Piscataway Records, Volume IV of the 'Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society.'