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TENTH GENERATION

528. William Blanchard Sr.

529. Jane Steere

"Title: Book "Blanchards of Rhode Island" Author: Adelaide Crandall Publication: Pub. 1942
"Note: Copy purchased from Higginson Book Co, Salem, MA, in 1999. Genealogy appears to have been carefully researched and well-documented, even though Rhode Island vital records were carelessly made and kept. The author cites land and vital records in Foster and Wakefield, RI; Clarendon, VT; Uxbridge, MA; Conn; and in NY, as well as genealogies by Dr. William Deloss Love, an eminent Hartford historian and genealogist who was a descendant of Moses Blanchard (#4 in Crandall genealogy), and others. The book seems to avoid unfounded speculation, and the author explains her reasoning with the reader when she does speculate, as in the Foreword.

Repository:
"Media: Book
"Page: P.4, 172
"Text: cites:

"Genealogy by Dr. William Deloss Love, 1851-1918, Descendant of Moses Blanchard Author: Dr. William Deloss Love Publication: Info collected when people who knew William Blanchard and William, Jr. were living. Note: Given to Adelaide Crandall by Miss Helen Love (Mrs. William D. Scranton), Dr. Love's niece.

-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=ccarna&id=I2087 c/o Carol Carnahan mnccarna@msn.com

Blanchard -- This Breton name first appeared in England in Lancashire, and before that in Normandy, France

"This is the "head of navigation" of the known Blanchard stream in our family; anything further back than this is in hidden, underground springs. Some have tried, without success, to tie in the line with that of Thomas Blanchard (1600-1654) of Boston. This Thomas was a Huguenot, born probably in the Duchy of Lorraine (then Holy Roman Empire; now France), then lived for a short while in England before coming to Boston. Others say Thomas was the son of Pierre, of Normandy. Some records show him to be descended from Alain Blanchard, executed in 1418 by the British after the surrender of the French army at Rouen.

"Of course, this says nothing definite about our Blanchard line, but gives some hint of origins. Since William married in with the early Baptist settlers of Rhode Island, and RI was a haven for the Protestant Huguenots, it is reasonable to guess that William was, like Thomas, a Huguenot with family roots in France."

-- cf. http://members.tripod.com/~dvance/Blanchard.html

Ysearch has provided us with the yDNA pattern of ancestor (528) William Blanchard Sr., c/o a male descendant. The first 25 markers are as follows:

[LAST REVISED 19 Nov. 2008]

Haplogroup

DYS
393

DYS
390

DYS
19/
394

DYS
391

DYS
385a

DYS
385b

DYS
426

DYS
388

DYS
439

DYS
389-1

DYS
392

DYS
389-2

DYS
458

DYS
459a

DYS
459b

DYS
455

DYS
454

DYS
447

DYS
437

DYS
448

DYS
449

DYS
464a

DYS
464b

DYS
464c

DYS
464d

#5TGVZ William Blanchard b. ABT 1669 of Scituate, RI

R1b1

 12 25 14 10 12 15 11 12 13 13 13 29 16 9 10 11 11 25 15 20 33 15 15 16 16

The Blanchard Family DNA Project links William's DNA (samples #6607, 20319 and 89847) genetically with samples #11906, 12060, 12936, 36000, twuyb, n8cp9 and 8yqu5. Collectively, these form "Group 7" of the study. The discussion of this group's results includes:

"Group 7 represents the Blanchards of Rhode Island, traced back as far as one William Blanchard who was evidently born c1670. It is not known whether he was an immigrant or was born in New England, but there is now some evidence from this DNA project that he had brothers or cousins in the area. There is one participant (11906) whose DNA matches Group 7, but whose lineage has been traced back to an ancestor who was contemporary with William's sons and was clearly not a son of William. Even more striking is the match with an English participant, twuyb, whose ancestry has been traced to mid-18th-century Northumberland... this intercontinental link gives a hint at the original home of a colonial family...

"This group has a distinctive pattern which comes "moderately" close to Groups 2 and 3... but still separated by thousands of years. We can therefore conclude that there is no connection between the Rhode Island/English Blanchards and any of the other groups we have tested."

Besides our William, Group 7 includes:

11906 William Blanchard b. ABT 1720 CT? d. 1795 CT
12060 Michael Blanchard b. 1786 Ont. d. 1873 IN
12936 Rufus G. Blanchard b. 1826 NY/VT d. 1901 NY
36000 William Blanchard b. ABT 1830 VT
twuyb Thomas Blanchard b. ABT 1752 Northumb. d. ABT 1820
n8cp9 William Blanchard b. ABT 1768 Yorkshire d. 1844
8yqu5 John Blanchard b. ABT 1770 Yorkshire

The haplogroup R1b (of which R1b1 is a subset) is found on the Atlantic seaboard of SW Europe, where it is found in frequencies greater than 80% -- consistent with its having been the predominant yDNA group of the original settlers of the area, akin to the modern-day Basque speakers in the western Pyrenes. Interestingly, the range extends into NE Turkey, where the Cimerii ("Gomer" of the Bible) lived during the time of the Major Prophets. They had found refuge there, after having been driven from the steppes by the advancing Scythians (Ashkenaz, akin to Hg R1a?). This agrees with the latest theories that Hg R1b originated in the Steppes, not in the Pyrenes as previously thought.

530. William Edmunds

531. Alice Angell

REF: http://www.familysearch.org/Search/af/ancestral_file_frame.asp?recid=22894383

"The propagation of (the marriage of of Peleg Rhodes and Alice Edmunds) on the internet is recent, and one I have not seen before. The family... was the subject of some work many years ago by the former genealogist for the SAR, but with no conclusion. Same for me, my work published in the NEHGS Register. The minor child Alice Edmunds doesn't seem to appear in her father's will. However, a later probate or property settlement involving a guardian could then mention her as the wife of Peleg Rhodes, or at least connect her to the Edmunds family..."

--Christopher Clark chrisclark805@msn.com

If anyone has helpful info. on this matter, please contact Chris and me. Thanks :-)

534. William Soule

535. Hannah (NOT Brewster)

"(535i) William Soule ...should not be confounded, as he has been, with another (2137iv_a1) William Soule (1708-1822), his contemporary, who was a son of (2137iv_a) Sylvanus Soule, and thus cause an entanglement in which descendants of the two branches have already become inextricably involved..."

-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=howl1537&id=I0570

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