Chauncey
Donaldson
Colton
Born in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, New York, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Eli Russell Colton
Husband of
Emily W (Smith) Coulton
— married
12 Jan 1837 in Princeton, Bureau, Illinois, United States
[children unknown]
Died
at age 84
in Princeton, Bureau, Illinois, United States
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Biography
Chauncey Donaldson Colton, and born August 9, 1810 in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York, the son of Jonathan Strong and Elizabeth (Donaldson) Colton.
He married Emily W. Smith on January 12, 1837 in Princeton. She was born in Vermont in 1818, the daughter of Albigence and Sarah Smith.
According to text on his listing on Findagave.com (as of January 15, 2012), Chauncey Colton was a farmer, but also worked with Rev. Owen Lovejoy in operating the Underground Railroad.
Chauncey and Emily Colton had five children: Elizabeth, Asa, Alby S., Alice, Buel, and Ada. Chauncey died August 7, 1895 in Princeton, and his wife died on January 8, 1892.
Both are buried in Oakland Cemetery, Princeton, Illinois.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Citation: Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 11 January 2021), memorial page for Chauncey Donaldson Colton (9 Aug 1810–7 Aug 1895), Find a Grave Memorial no. 48109221, citing Oakland Cemetery, Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, USA ; Maintained by GWC (contributor 46861802). * Added: 14 Feb 2010.
The Hampshire colony Congregational church, its first hundred years, 1831-1931 : a record assembled by the Historical committee. Public domain. Published 1923-1963 with notice but no evidence of copyright renewal found in Stanford Copyright Renewal Database. Contact digicc@library.illinois.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Chauncey 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 Chauncey:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Chauncey 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 Chauncey:
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~1.56%
Miranda (Hollenbeck) Cartier
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23andMe, GEDmatch JH6353312 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, Ancestry member mhollenb
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~0.78%
Jim Berry :
23andMe, GEDmatch M173910 [compare]
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