Private
Whitfield
Beckwith
Born in Maysville, Aroostook, Maine, United States
Ancestors 
Son of John Worden Beckwith
and Sarah A. (Munson) Beckwith
Brother of
James Worden Beckwith, John Stedman Beckwith, Bethanah Beckwith, Enoch Beckwith, Joel Beckwith, Martha J. (Beckwith) Gould, William Beckwith, Alfred Beckwith, Olive Caroline (Beckwith) Easler, Rachel (Beckwith) Gould, Esther Ann (Beckwith) Clark and Nancy (Beckwith) Bull
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 20
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Jul 2016
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Biography
Whitfield was born in 1844. He was the son of John Beckwith and Sarah Unknown. He appears with the family on the 1860 census,[1] but not on the 1850 census.
Served in the 2nd Regiment Maine Calvary United States Civil War
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDHT-S8K : 30 December 2015), Whitfield Beckwith in entry for John Beckwith, 1860.
Familysearch: United States Civil War Soldiers Index 1861-1865 Whitfield Beckwith
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Whitfield by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or 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 Whitfield:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Whitfield by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or 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 Whitfield:
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~1.56%
Rebecca Munn
:
23andMe, GEDmatch M259994 [compare]
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~0.78%
Sara Hayden :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member SarasInParis
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~0.78%
Shelley Tegart :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member sategart
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~0.78%
Susan (Theriault) Kretock :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Mustangsue2002
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~0.78%
Diane G :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #374019
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