A descendant of Mayflower passenger Degory Priest, Bethiah Cartwright was born to Hazadiah and Abigail (Brown) Cartwright at Nantucket in 1750. She married John Macy, son of Robert Macy and Abigail Barnard, in 1768. She died in 1793.
Sources
Barney Genealogical Record. Nantucket Historical Association. Person ID I9729.
Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015. Priest, Degory (Vol. 8), p. 99.
WikiTree profile Cartwright-147 created through the import of Nelson Family Tree.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by Gregory Nelson. Source: Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry.com.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Bethiah 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 Bethiah: