Born in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of Israel Nichols
and Mary (Sumner) Nichols
Sister of
Mary (Nichols) Groce [half], Israel Nichols [half], Thomas Nichols [half], Nathaniel Nichols [half], Ruth (Nichols) Stoddard [half], Jazaniah Nichols Sr, Thankful (Nichols) Spear, Roger Nichols, Charity (Nichols) Anderson and Israel Nichols
Wife of
David Marsh
— married
12 Jul 1722 (to 16 Mar 1724) in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
Wife of
Daniel Greenleaf Jr
— married
18 Jul 1726 in Hingham, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Mother of
Elizabeth Marsh, David Greenleaf, Elizabeth (Greenleaf) Joslin, Daniel Greenleaf, Israel Greenleaf, Stephen Greenleaf, David Greenleaf, William Greenleaf, Calvin Greenleaf and Mary (Greenleaf) Wheeler
Died
at age 59
in Bolton, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay
Profile last modified
| Created 11 Nov 2014
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Biography
Born in Hingham on 1710 to Israel Nichols and Mary Sumner. She first married David Marsh on 12 July 1722. To this union was born one child Elizabeth. Silence married a second time to Daniel Greenleaf and they had 9 children. [1]
She passed away on 13 May 1765 in Bolton, Worchester, Massachusetts.*[2]
Sources
- ↑ History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts, Volume 2:58 (558) By Hingham (Mass.), Thomas Tracy Bouvé, Edward Tracy Bouvé, John Davis Long, Walter Lincoln Bouvé, Francis Henry Lincoln, George Lincoln, Edmund Hersey, Fearing Burr, Charles Winfield Scott Seymour. 1893.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #32257297
- Find a Grave, memorial page for Silence Nichols Greenleaf (4 Jul 1702–3 May 1762), Find A Grave: Memorial #32257297, citing Old South Burying Ground, Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Silence 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 Silence:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Silence 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 Silence:
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~0.78%
Shedrick Moore
:
23andMe, GEDmatch T236933 [compare]
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T236933 [compare], FTDNA kit #344438
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~0.78%
Ben Brink :
AncestryDNA
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Living DNA, GEDmatch QF8717776 [compare], yourDNAportal BEN0ed86984
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Ann (Crawford) Vining :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch jw2135461 [compare]
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~0.39%
Lynne Lamson :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Gary Muirhead :
23andMe
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~0.39%
Cheryl (Booth) Rogers :
23andMe
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~0.39%
William Hitchcock :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Danny Hollis :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A475467 [compare], Ancestry member circuitmann
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~0.39%
Alisa (Nielson) Webster :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A540903 [compare], Ancestry member webgirl88
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~0.39%
~3.12%
Brennan Vining :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch YE7655780 [compare], yourDNAportal BRE53446391, Ancestry member BrenFrog
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder
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~0.39%
Jon McGee :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #32211
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~0.39%
Cami (McGee) Jones :
MyHeritage DNA
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Nichols-5438 and Nichols-4351 appear to represent the same person because: The information is the same
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