Mercy
Cunningham
formerly Smith
Born in Chatham, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Archelaus Smith
and Elizabeth (Nickerson) Smith
Sister of
Susanna (Smith) Atwood, Hezekiah Smith, John Kenney Smith, Eunice (Smith) Newell, James Smith, Stephen Vincent Smith, Stephen Smith, Archelaus Smith Jr and Hannah (Smith) Coffin
Wife of
John E Cunningham
— married
6 Oct 1786 in Barrington, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Descendants 
Mother of
John Cunningham, Nancy (Cunningham) Dixon, Daniel Vincent Cunningham, William E Cunningham, Alexander Cunningham, Mercy (Cunningham) Spears, Duncan McCallum Cunningham and Malcolm Cunningham
Died
at about age 86
in North East Pont, Shelburne, Nova Scotia
Profile last modified
| Created 30 Dec 2010
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Biography
Mercy was born in 1758. She was the daughter of Archelaus Smith and Elizabeth Nickerson. She Married John E Cunningham. she passed away in 1845.
Mercy travelled from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia with her mother Elizabeth (Nickerson) Smith and brother and sister when she was just 2 years old. She married John E Cunningham in 1785, who came from Scotland,and together they had 8 children.
Sources
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:39TH-61H : accessed 2016-11-12), entry for Mercy /Smith/.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Kitty Smith for contributions to this profile.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mercy 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 Mercy:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mercy 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 Mercy:
-
~3.91%
Alton Crowell
:
MyHeritage DNA
-
~2.34%
~9.38%
Joseph Wilton :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member JMWilton71
-
~1.56%
Bruce Blair :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch MN8755525 [compare], Ancestry member microrotor
-
~1.56%
Kevin Reynolds :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T872084 [compare], FTDNA kit #480575
-
~1.17%
Jennie (Atkinson) Blades :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A971434 [compare]
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder
-
~0.78%
~6.25%
Ed Flaherty :
23andMe
-
~0.78%
Bette (Pye) Wing :
23andMe
-
~0.78%
Catherine (Shields) Johnsen :
23andMe
-
~0.78%
~3.12%
Dwight Davis :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Cindy (Bindel) Boekelman :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch CN8291639 [compare], Ancestry member cindytruelove
-
~0.78%
R Smith :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.39%
Marlene Crosby :
23andMe, GEDmatch LR4124506 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, yourDNAportal MARd36d5fd3, Ancestry member m_aubin50
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~0.39%
Chris Hynes :
23andMe, GEDmatch CN5609171 [compare]
+
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch MZ6902821 [compare], Ancestry member cshynes1
-
~0.39%
Candi (MacDonnell) Daley :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A835856 [compare], Ancestry member candidaley
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