Dorcas (Drake) Shotwell was born on 01 September 1802, at the Old Drake Homestead (253 Valley Road), Washington Valley (Watchung), Somerset Co., New Jersey, named for her maternal grandmother. She was married on 29 December 1825, Westfield?, New Jersey, to Jacob Shotwell. She was pregnant with daughter Mary Ann during two major events, the appearance of Halley's Comet in the fall 1835 and when the Shotwell farmhouse burned down in January 1836.
She died on 26 November 1873 at the home of her son-in-law (Enoch Runyon), Green Valley, Tazewell County, Illinois. Julia C. Drake's diary says that she "passed away so quietly and suddenly like going to sleep that no one thought her near death and thought she was only quietly sleeping."
"United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6MR-PLC : 9 November 2014), Sarah Shotwell in household of Jacob Shotwell, Warren, Somerset, New Jersey, United States; citing family 279, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
Timothy Alton Perrin, Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 1, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 29, 1995), "CD-ROM," Tree #4887, Date of Import: May 29, 1999. (1995), "Electronic," Date of Import: Jun 2, 1999.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dorcas 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 Dorcas: