Oliver Pettibone stayed in Amenia for a few years, and there at the age of twenty-one he married Martha Paine, a seventh-generation descendant of Stephen Hopkins, one of the Pilgrims who arrived in the New World on the Mayflower in 1620. [See Appendix C]
Reference
H. D. Paine: Paine Family Records, 1881, vol 2, pp 12-6, 43, 46-8, 85-6: vol 2 1883, p 207
Note-- The family name is often spelled as Payne in the records.
New Eng. Hist, and Gen. Reg., Vol 47, 1893, pp 82-3.
The Mayflower Descendant, vol 2 1900, pp 117-8. Tom Bredehoft, Jun 9, 2012.
Sources
Tom Bredehoft, information is from LDS FamilySearch User Submitted Trees. Click the Changes tab for the details of edits by Tom and others.
Information developed from Find A Grave memorial no.37316659 as Entered by Tom Bredehoft, 8/4/2013.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Martha 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 Martha: