Born in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Jonathan Godfrey
and Mercy (Mayo) Godfrey
Sister of
Thomas Godfrey, Jeptha Godfrey, Hannah (Godfrey) Rogers, Mercy (Godfrey) Rogers, Lydia (Godfrey) Smith, Anna (Godfrey) Freeman, Mehitable (Godfrey) Hamilton and Barbara (Godfrey) Weekes
Wife of
John Gould
— married
18 Aug 1739 (to before 1750) in Eastham, Barnstable Co, Massachusetts
Wife of
Thomas Myrick
— married
2 Aug 1750 in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Mother of
Abigail Gould, John Gould Jr., Thomas Gould, Richard Gould, Hannah (Myrick) Morse, Ziporah Merrick, Ruth (Merrick) Bangs, Lydia (Merrick) Lincoln and Joshua Merrick
Died
at about age 77
in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Jun 2011
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Biography
Ruth was born in 1719. She is the daughter of Jonathan Godfrey and Mercy Mayo. [1]
Ruth married as her first husband John Gould, son of Nathaniel & Grace (Hurd) Gould, on 18 Aug 1739 at Eastham, Barnstable, MA Bay - parents of John II, Thomas, Richard & Abigail
After the death of husband John she married Thomas Myrick/Merrick, son of Joshua & Lydia (Mayo) Myrick/Merrick, on 2 Aug 1750 at Harwich, Barnstable, MA Bay - they had a daughter Hannah
Sources
- Mayflower Society Application Database: "Community Trees," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:QVQR-MYQ : accessed 28 December 2021), entry for Ruth Godfrey, cites sources; "Mayflower Pilgrim Genealogies" file (2:2:2:MMXD-DP8), submitted 24 February 2020 by FamilySearch. Source: Barbara Lambert Merrick, E. Virginia Hunt, Mayflower Families in Progress - William Brewster of the Mayflower and the Fifth Generation Descendants of his Daughter Patience ([Plymouth, Massachusetts]: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001)
- MA Town & Vital Records, 1620-1988
- www.genealogyofnewengland.com
- WikiTree profile Godfrey-491 created through the import of Toler-Glaser family tree.ged on Jun 26, 2011 by Shannon Glaser. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Shannon and others.
- ↑ Entered by Wilfred Vasile, Oct 2, 2012
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth 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 Ruth:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth 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 Ruth:
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~0.78%
Steve Small
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M884191 [compare]
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~0.78%
Richard Baker :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A148971 [compare], Ancestry member rbaker545
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~0.39%
Janet (Fisk) Dickinson :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch SK4876047 [compare], Ancestry member janetfdickinson
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch SK4876047 [compare], FTDNA kit #652012
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~0.39%
Shannon (Toler) Glaser :
MyHeritage DNA
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