Aaron Burr 3rd Vice President of the United States
My Ancestors
I was born in Connecticut, and so were my parents and all my grandparents.
Great-grandparents: All my great-grandparents were born in the USA, except Mary Eleanor Elliott b.Ireland
All other great-grandparents born in Connecticut, except for Charles Thruston Greene b.Maryland
2nd-great-grandparents: Excluding the above mentioned Ireland family, all 2nd-great-grandparents born in the USA, except Moses Thomas b.Wales and Henry Supple b.Ireland
Excluding family lines above, all other 2nd-great-grandparents born in Connecticut, except
Pauline Powles b.New York and
George Sears Greene b.Rhode Island
Martha Barrett Dana b.Massachusetts
Mary Elizabeth Barnum b.New York
3rd-great-grandparents: Excluding the above Ireland and Wales family lines, all 3rd-great-grandparents born in USA, except,
William Mills b.England
Susan Markham b.England
4th-great-grandparents: I only have documentation about 47 of my 64 4th-great-grandparents. Of these 47, their birth locations are:
Connecticut: 18
New York: 5
Rhode Island: 4
Massachusetts: 5
The rest are undocumented or born in Europe
Founders of Danbury, Connecticut
Eight families are considered to be the original founders, in 1684/5, of what was to become Danbury, Connecticut:
Benedict Family: I have not discovered any direct connection to the above Benedict men, only connections via their wives. There are brick walls in my family tree, so connections to these Benedict men may yet be found.
Henry Whitney was one of the petitioners, 9 May 1672, for liberty to begin a new "plantation neare the back side of Norwalke." This was Danbury. Leave was granted, and the plantations was begun in 1684, but he did not live to take part in it.[1]
I have been tested at both 23andMe and FamilyTreeDNA. The 23andMe test includes SNP test of yDNA, mtDNA, and auDNA. My FamilyTreeDNA test only includes 111 STRs on the yDNA.
Below, I have included a complete description of my SNP test results, along with the progression through that haplogroup tree. This is so that others can compare their haplogroup branch to my haplogroup branch. As long as we use that latest haplogroup trees, this should tell us how closely we are related (or not at all). This only works along Maternal or Paternal lines, but that may include thousands of people. This will allow us to find errors in the genealogy in WikiTree and also allow us to discover so-called "Non Paternal Events" (NPE).
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Rick or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA.
Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
Rick Pierpont:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup R-S4056, FTDNA kit #364331, MitoYDNA ID T10746[compare] +
Y-Chromosome Test, haplogroup R-S29
Mitochondrial DNA test-takers in the direct maternal line:
Rick Pierpont:
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup J2a1a1a2, FTDNA kit #364331, MitoYDNA ID T10749[compare] +
Mitochondrial DNA Test Other, haplogroup J2a1a1b
Thanks for Norman Morrison Isham entry. I am a fan and have some of his books and letters. He was a fascinating historical architect and I look forward to adding some of his details to what you posted. Steve Isham