Rachel
Whitehead
Born in Edgecombe,North Carolina
Ancestors 
Daughter of William Whitehead
and Peggy (Lewis) Whitehead
Sister of
Sarah (Whitehead) Merritt, Martha (Whitehead) Atkinson, Priscilla (Whitehead) Joyner [half] and Temperance (Whitehead) Booker [half]
Wife of
Nathan Whitehead
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 64
in Nash,North Carolina
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Dec 2017
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Biography
Rachel was born in 1736. She passed away about 1800.
William's 24 Jan 1765 will named his wife and children. William Whitehead . .. son Arthur Whitehead land on Beech Swamp joining the land of Elias Fort and 1 tract on south side of Deep Creek joining Tempty ... son Cullen Whitehead manor plantation and all the lands joining on both sides of Deep Creek (my still excepted) ... son Lewis Whitehead and daughter Sarah Marriott (Merritt) cow and calf and nothing else. Residue of estate including the still and live stock to be equally divided between wife Abby Whitehead and children Martha Whitehead, Rachel Whitehead, Rebeckah Whitehead, Cullen Whitehead, Temperence Whitehead, Priscilla Whitehead, Arthur Whitehead. Witnesses: John Whitaker Minr., Robert Whitaker, Robert Whitaker Jr. Extrs: my wife Abby, my brother Tobias Whitehead and James Smith and I hereby invest Tobias Whitehead, James Smith and Robert Whitaker with authority to sell and divide estate. (Margaret M. Hofmann, Genealogical Abstracts of Wills 1758-1824 - Halifax Co, NC, #111, p. 162)
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rachel by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' 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 Rachel:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Rachel by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' 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 Rachel:
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~0.78%
Martin Atkinson
:
23andMe
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~0.78%
Carolyn (Atkinson) Martin :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A984863 [compare], Ancestry member cmartinAnc
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~0.78%
Mel (Gilbert) Lambert :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A068971 [compare], Ancestry member ljlmcl
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #B188642
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Verna (Liles) Nutt :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member vernarnutt
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~0.78%
N Burney :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member bligala1
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~0.78%
James Langdale :
AncestryDNA
+
MyHeritage DNA
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~0.39%
Daniel Dillman :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ddillman160
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch RB9567918 [compare], yourDNAportal DAN7163082f, FTDNA kit #B200139
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MyHeritage DNA
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Living DNA, yourDNAportal DAN7163082f
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~0.39%
Margaret Elgin :
23andMe, GEDmatch M614336 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch M614336 [compare], Ancestry member maelgin
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Jackie (Harris) Zimmerer :
23andMe, GEDmatch KQ4293768 [compare]
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