Born in Croydon, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of David Powers
and Naomi (Goldthwaite) Sadler
Sister of
Azubah (Powers) Woodworth [half], Miriam (Powers) Babb, Lucretia Powers, Patience (Powers) Curtis, Harvey Powers, Maria (Powers) Bond, Dennis Powers and Irene Powers
Wife of
James Burnap
— married
26 Apr 1837 in Sutton, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
[children unknown]
Died
at about age 87
in Millbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 26 Jan 2021
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Biography
467 Ruth, b. 1801; m. James Burnap; res. Sutton. [1]
Sources
- ↑ Goldthwaite genealogy : descendants of Thomas Goldthwaite, an early settler of Salem, Mass., with some account of the Goldwaite Family in England. Goldthwaite, Charlotte, b. 1832 Publication date 1899 Publisher Hartford : Hartford Press https://archive.org/details/goldthwaitegenea00gold/page/52/mode/2up pp. 166-167
- Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6962096/ruth-burnap: accessed 25 October 2022), memorial page for Ruth Powers Burnap (1802–7 Aug 1888), Find A Grave: Memorial #6962096, citing Old Howard Cemetery, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Ross Weaver (contributor 48435494) .
- "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW37-C9P : 2 March 2021), Ruth Burnap, 07 Aug 1888; citing Millbury, Massachusetts, v 393 p 528, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 960,239.
- "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch
- (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHWQ-1L3 : 20 May 2022), Ruth Powers in entry for James Burknap, 28 Mar 1837; citing Marriage, Millbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009544.
- (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHY9-JFK : 10 November 2020), Ruth Powers Burnap, 7 Aug 1888; citing Death, Millbury, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007011877.
- Vital Records of Millbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Franklin P. Rice, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1903); p. 107 "Ruth and James Burknap, both of Sutton, March 28, 1831."
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' 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 Ruth:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth by comparing test results with other carriers of her ancestors' 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 Ruth:
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~1.56%
~6.25%
June (Stearns) Butka 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch T109258 [compare], Ancestry member junebutka
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~0.78%
Robert Fletcher :
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