Born in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Josiah Trask
and Mary (Woodbury) Trask
Sister of
Josiah Trask Jr., Peter Trask, Abigail (Trask) Severance, Mary (Traske) Eliot, Bartholemew Trask [half] and Hannah (Trask) Woodbury [half]
Wife of
Samuel Peabody
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Apphia (Peabody) Woodcock and Lucy (Peabody) Beverly
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
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Biography
Ruth Traske. daughter of Josiah Trask and his wife Mary (Woodbury), was baptized on 9 Jun 1728 in Beverly, Essex, MA.[1] She was called Ruth Peabody in her father's 1768 will.[2]
Ruth Trask, of Salem, and Samuel Peabody of Middleton, were married Apr. 13, 1749[3][2]
The family moved about 1792, to Union, Lincoln Co., Maine, where Ruth died in 1819 ae 93.[3]
Children:
- Josiah Peabody d. Newbury, Massachusetts
- Ruth d. Portland Maine, 1795, unmarried
- Mehitable m. Alexander Barry
- Sarah m. Luther Brown
- Betsy m. ____Keith of Union Maine
- Anna b. c 1767; m.
- Lucy
- Samuel
- William d. Dixmont Maine
- Stephen d. age 17
- Aphia m. _____ Woodcock.
Sources
- ↑ Vital Records of Beverly Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Volume I – Births. Topsfield, Mass.: Topsfield Historical Society, 1906.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Samuel 2 Trask, Son of Osmond Trask of Beverly, Massachusetts." The Essex Genealogist. 29:20 Link at AmericanAncestors ($)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Peabody Family" New England Historical and Genealogical Register 2: 368 https://books.google.com/books?id=lxQqAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA368&lpg=PA368&dq=ruth+trask+samuel+peabody&source=bl&ots=os4-_wOAM2&sig=2NDssAB9nPPMoaUq3TkrSrTKZ1E&hl=en&sa=X&ei=XkreVJ_LBYicygT8rIGAAw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=ruth%20trask%20samuel%20peabody&f=false
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth 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 Ruth:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Ruth 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 Ruth:
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Dorothy (Mitchell) James 
:
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A072930 [compare]
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~0.78%
Denise (Severance) Cook :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch H488526 [compare]
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~0.39%
~1.56%
David James :
23andMe, GEDmatch T151295 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch T151295 [compare], yourDNAportal DAV70f7eedd, Ancestry member jamesdm49
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T151295 [compare], yourDNAportal DAV180f95c9, FTDNA kit #24887
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~0.39%
Tina Townsend :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A977558 [compare], Ancestry member tina_barsaleau89
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~0.39%
Kathleen Moores :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member unicorn03131987
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