Born
16 Apr 1721 in
New London, New London, Connecticut
Ancestors
Wife of
Asahel Bigelow
— married
13 Dec 1737 in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut
Wife of
Isaac Day
— married
12 Oct 1762 in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut
Wife of
Joseph Langrell
— married
Dec 1768 in Colchester, Hartford, Connecticut
Descendants
Died
10 Nov 1794
at age 73
in
Lebanon, New London, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified 28 Dec 2023
| Created 23 Oct 2013
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Biography
Dorothy was the daughter of Nathaniel Otis & Hannah (Thacher) Otis . She is a descendant of Mayflower Passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley , and John and Joan (Hurst) Tilley , through her mother.
She was married three times: first to Asa Bigelow with whom she had Asa (1738-1754) , Jonathan (1740) , Dorothy (1742-1761) , Sarah (1744) , Otis (1747) , Betty (1749-1752) , Delight (1751-1754) , Betty (1753) and Asa (May 12, 1755) .
After the death of Asa, Dorothy married Isaac Day in 1762, who already had 7 children with Ann (Foote) Day. With Isaac, Dorothy a son, Charles .
Isaac died in 1765 and she married once again to Joseph Langrell .
Sources
Taintor, Charles Micaiell. Extracts from the Records of Colchester (Case, Lockwood & Co., Hartford, Conn., 1864) Page 86
Sextons Records, 1733-1927, of Goshen Cemetery in Lebanon, Connecticut (Connecticut State Library) Page 7 .
White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower (Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1990) Vol. 1, Page 515 .
"born in New London, Conn., (recorded in Colchester, Conn.)"
Find A Grave: Memorial #45042591
Howe, Gilman Bigelow. Genealogy of the Bigelow Family of America (C. Hamilton, Worcester, Mass., 1890)
The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. 1-55. Volume 7, General Ed White, 2009
New London, Colchester Marriages [1]
Bigelow Society[2]
Rowley and Langrell Family Charts[3]
Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F7WQ-FQF : 7 January 2020), Dorothy Otis, 1721.
Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F759-9QR : 11 January 2020), Dorothy Otis in entry for Asa Bigelow, 1737.
Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F76S-44M : 16 January 2020), Dorothy Otis, 1795.
John R Totten. Thacher-Thatcher Genealogy. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1910. p231-2.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Dorothy by comparing test results with other
carriers of her mitochondrial DNA .
Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share
some percentage of DNA with Dorothy:
~1.56%
Sarah (Hawes) Shaw :
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~0.78%
~4.69%
Ginny Langmuir :
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~0.39%
Jeff Cheney :
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~0.39%
~3.12%
Jim Hunter :
23andMe
~0.39%
A. Hazzard :
AncestryDNA , Ancestry member yardsbeautiful
~0.39%
Joe (W) Wilkes :
AncestryDNA , GEDmatch A556848 [compare ] , Ancestry member mojowilkes
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A556848 [compare ] , FTDNA kit #B195491
~0.39%
Sheryl Parker :
AncestryDNA , GEDmatch A105626 [compare ] , Ancestry member sherylfinch
~0.39%
~1.56%
Wendy (O’Reilly) Kirk :
AncestryDNA
~0.39%
Judith Robinson :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #723788
~0.39%
Elaine (Wooters) Hecker :
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