Born in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Sperry
and Priscilla (Hotchkiss) Sperry
Wife of
John Wooding
— married
16 Nov 1756 in Woodbridge, New Haven, Connecticut Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Edmund Wooding, Cyrus Wooding, Elijah Wooding, Huldah (Wooding) Perkins, David Wooding, John Wooding and Rhoda (Wooding) Doolittle
Died
at age 79
in Bethany, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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| Created 11 Jan 2013
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Biography
Desire SPERRY [1] was born [2][3] 3 Aug 1732 in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, British Colonial America. She was the daughter of John Sperry and Priscilla Hotchkiss.
She died [4] 14 May 1812 and was buried [5] in Carrington Cemetery, Bethany, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.
Desire married John WOODING.
Sources
- ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 6, p 1424.
- ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 7, p 1675.
- ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 8, p 2016.
- ↑ Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven, vol 8, p 2016.
- ↑ 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Carrington Cemetery, p. 27. http://www.oxfordpast.com/carrcemscan27.html.
- Jacobus, Donald Lines. Families of Ancient New Haven (New Haven Genealogical Magazine, 1922-1932) Vol. 8, Page 2016.
- Find A Grave: Memorial #83316858
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Desire 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 Desire:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Desire 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 Desire:
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~0.78%
Evelyn (Millison) Bradshaw
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A382547 [compare]
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~0.39%
Leonard Anderson :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member spondoro54
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Sperry-343 and Sperry-219 appear to represent the same person because: -219 was removed from these parents instead of being merged originally.
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