Born in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Zadok Hersey
and Abigail (Lewis) Hersey
Sister of
Abigail (Hershey) Smith, Zadock Hershey, Hannah (Hersey) Greenlaw, Anna Hannah (Hersey) Clark, Ebenezer Hersey, Peggy Hersey, William Hersey and Mary (Hersey) Wilder
Wife of
Benjamin Richards Jones
— married
1798 in Robbinston, Maine
Descendants 
Mother of
Ebenezer Lewis Jones, Mary Richards (Jones) Lincoln, Sarah Leighton Jones, Benjamin Franklin Jones, Caroline Lewis (Jones) Thaxter, Amelia Hersey (Jones) Foster, Samuel Lewis Jones, Stephen Henry Jones and Henry A. M. Jones
Died
at age 76
in Dennysville, Washington, Maine, United States
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Biography
Mehitable Hersey was born on March 19, 1781 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States. Her parents were Zadok Hersey and Abigail Lewis.[1]
She married Benjamin Jones[1] in 1798.
She died on December 30, 1857 in Dennysville, Washington, Maine, United States.
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Thomas T Bouvé; Edward Tracy Bouvé; John Davis Long; Walter Lincoln Bouvé; Francis Henry Lincoln; George Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles Winfield Scott Seymour; Hingham (Mass.). (1893). Pub. by the town. Vol II, p.309
- Edited by Ruth Gray, Joseph Cook Anderson II, Lois Ware Thurston, C.G., et al, Maine Families in 1790 (Maine Genealogical Society, Picton Press, Rockport, ME), Vol. 2, p. 135.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mehitable 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 Mehitable:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mehitable 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 Mehitable:
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~3.12%
~6.25%
Judy Holcombe 
:
23andMe, GEDmatch UZ2930657 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A350338 [compare], Ancestry member judyholc1
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~1.56%
Lea (Walker) Sullivan :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Patty Levesque :
AncestryDNA
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