Born in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Goodenow
and Mary (Axtell) Goodenow
Sister of
Hannah (Goodenow) Smith, Mary (Goodenow) Bush, Edmund Goodenow, Sarah Goodenow, Sarah (Goodenow) Walker, Dorothy (Goodenow) Peckham, John Goodenow, Elizabeth (Goodenow) Hayden, Joseph Goodenow, Ebenezer Goodenow and Lydia Goodenow
Wife of
Joseph Patterson
— married
22 Sep 1701 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Mother of
Mercy (Patterson) Brown, Mary (Patterson) Hawes, Eunice (Patterson) Flagg and Joseph Emmett Patterson
Died
at age 29
in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay
Profile last modified
| Created 2 Apr 2011
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Biography
Mercy Goodenow was born on 8 Nov 1680 in Sudbury, Middlesex, Massachusetts to parents Capt. John Goodenow and Mary Axtell. She married Joseph Patterson as his first wife on 22 Sep 1701 in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Children: Mercy, Mary, Lydia, Eunice, Joseph Emmett, Hepzibah, Sibilla, Lydia. She died on 1 Sep 1710 in Watertown, Massachusetts.
"The birth records of two daughters give the name Mary. The older is probably really Mary, named after her mother. This is the younger and, despite the birth record, appears to have been Mercy. The births of her children call her Mercy, her death record also, her father's probate [Middlesex Probate 9347, in 1724] says that daughter Mary had sons Sam'l & Eben'r Felsh [Felch?], while "Joseph Patteson who Married Mercy dec'd" is a separate party to the probate."
Sources
- American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1999.
- Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
- "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4NW-WJX : 15 January 2020), Mercy in entry for Mary Patterson, 1704.
- "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VQ66-HGW : 15 January 2020), Mercy in entry for Eunice Patterson, 1708.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mercy 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 Mercy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mercy 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 Mercy:
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~0.78%
Jim Harvey
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~0.39%
Bruce Dunlap :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Pegram1150
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~0.39%
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