Born in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Son of John Atwater
and Abigail (Mansfield) Atwater
Brother of
John Atwater, Abigail (Atwater) Hall, Mercy Atwater, Hannah (Atwater) Beach, Joshua Atwater, Moses Atwater, Ebenezer Atwater, Caleb Atwater and Benjamin Atwater
Husband of
Mary (Ward) Atwater
— married
9 Nov 1727 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT
Husband of
Hannah (Moss) Atwater
— married
15 Jun 1768 in Wallingford, New Haven, CT
Descendants 
Died
at age 81
in Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Profile last modified
| Created 15 Apr 2009
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Biography
Phineas A Atwater was born in 1699, the son of John Atwater and his wife Abigail Mansfield. [1] He was propounded a freeman of Wallingford on 30 Apr 1730. He married first Mehitable Mix on 10 Nov 1726 in Wallingford.
He married second Mary Ward on 9 Nov 1727 in Wallingford. Children: Sarah, Reuben, William Ward, Thomas, Ward, Phineas, Damaris, Merab, Ambrose.
After Mary Ward died in 1767 he married Hannah Moss on 15 Jun 1768 in Wallingford. Phineas died on 20 Sep 1781 in Cheshire, Connecticut.
Sources
- ↑ Edward A. Atwater (1873) Genealogical Register of the Descendants in the Male Line of David Atwater, One of the Original Planters of New Haven, Conn., to the Sixth Generation
- Connecticut Soldiers, French and Indian Wars
- Greater Omaha Genealogical Society, Barbour Collection - Wallingford, p. 23. "
by Capt Yale."
- 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 1, p 61.
- Find A Grave, database and images (Find A Grave: Memorial #29909293 : accessed 28 April 2019), memorial page for Phineas Atwater (23 Sep 1699–20 Mar 1777), citing Center Street Cemetery, Wallingford, New Haven County, Connecticut, USA.
Acknowledgements
- This profile was created on 13 September 2010 through the import of 124-DeCoursey.ged.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Phineas:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Phineas:
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~0.78%
Sue (Nelson) Dyer
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23andMe
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AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Hewlett Kent :
23andMe
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~0.39%
John Hart :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Elizabeth (Pyle) Handler :
23andMe, Ancestry member eliz_handler
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch T310037 [compare], Ancestry member eliz_handler
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T310037 [compare], FTDNA kit #257003
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MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch T310037 [compare]
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~0.39%
Kay Colwell :
AncestryDNA
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Darryl Rowles
Cami (McGee) Jones
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Atwater-8 and Atwater-16 appear to represent the same person because: They appear to be the same person, dates,location etc.
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Darryl Rowles
Same person as un-sourced Atwater-8
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by Darryl Rowles
Cami (McGee) Jones
Atwater-434 and Atwater-16 appear to represent the same person because: Atwater-434 just needs to be merged away. It is a remnant from when I was learning. Thank you
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by Cami (McGee) Jones
This week's connection theme is the Puritan Great Migration. Phineas is 10 degrees from John Winthrop, 7 degrees from Anne Bradstreet, 7 degrees from John Cotton, 7 degrees from John Eliot, 10 degrees from John Endecott, 10 degrees from Mary Estey, 7 degrees from Thomas Hooker, 8 degrees from Anne Hutchinson, 8 degrees from William Pynchon, 9 degrees from Alice Tilley, 7 degrees from Robert Treat and 10 degrees from Roger Williams on our single family tree. Login to see how you relate to 33 million family members.