Born in Rhode Island
Ancestors 
Daughter of Joseph Sheffield II
and Mary (Earle) Sheffield
Sister of
Joseph Sheffield III, Mary Sheffield, Nathaniel Sheffield, George Sheffield and Esther (Sheffield) Wilcox
Wife of
James Tefft
— married
18 Jun 1741 in Charlestown, Kings, Rhode Island
Descendants 
Died after
after age 38
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 27 Jan 2012
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This profile is part of the Sheffield Name Study.
Contents |
Biography
Martha was born in 1719. She died after 1758.
Name
- Name: Martha Sheffield
Birth
- Date: 1676
- Place: Rhode Island
Sources
- "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914", , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F8QX-LJG : 17 December 2019), Martha Tefft Sheffield, 1719.
See also:
- "chicoine,himes Family Tree", Ancestry.com, Neal B. Chicoine, Titusville, FL: 2010
- Watson, Judith (Green). Isaiah Green and Elizabeth Tefft of Charlestown, Rhode Island and Stonington, Connecticut with Eight Generations of Their Descendants. Gateway Press, Inc. (Baltimore, MD : 1999) pg 7 [Lists James Tefft and Martha Sheffield--daughter of Joseph Sheffield of Kingstown--as parents of Colonel George Tefft.]
Acknowledgments
WikiTree profile Sheffield-431 created through the import of Ferguson-Private.GED on Jan 27, 2012 by Diane Ferguson.
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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:
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:
-
~0.78%
Louise (Griffith) Sigle
:
23andMe
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~0.78%
Steven Harvey :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
~3.12%
Janie (Goodwin) Oickle :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
Karen (Church) LHeureux :
23andMe
-
~0.39%
Jeffrey Linamen :
23andMe
-
~0.39%
~3.12%
Becky (Walker) Casey :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member mychrome36
-
~0.39%
~1.56%
Deborah Pitts :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A428393 [compare], Ancestry member DCosimo7420
-
~0.39%
Gen or Genevieve (Wiltrout) Hurst :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.39%
~6.25%
Denise Allen :
AncestryDNA
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