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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Patten by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Patten:
In addition to the confusion of Joseph Graves marrying twice (to Lydia Taylor and Lydia Williams), Patten Simpson married twice (to the same Lydia Taylor and Jane/Jean McClure). And Lydia Taylor was married twice (to the same Joseph Graves and Patten Simpson). Not a surprise that it's easily tangled.
Patten Simpson married Lydia TAYLOR, whose husband Joseph Graves also married Lydia WILLIAMS, but Patten Simpson did not marry Lydia Williams. But Patten's son John did marry Mary Polly Graves, daughter of Joseph Graves and Lydia Williams.
(The Burley/Burleigh genealogy mistakenly calls Lydia Williams' husband as JOHN Graves, but it was this same Joseph Graves who married the two Lydias.)
(The Burley/Burleigh genealogy mistakenly calls Lydia Williams' husband as JOHN Graves, but it was this same Joseph Graves who married the two Lydias.)