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INDEX

TWELFTH GENERATION

FESHK 2136. George Soule

"SOULE, SOLE, or SOUL, (2136) GEORGE, Plymouth, came in the Mayflower 1620, under protect. of (9577iii) Edward Winslow, sign. the Cape Cod compact in Nov. was tax. in 1633 and 4 independ. of W. had rem. to Duxbury bef. 1643, by w. (2137) Mary Becket had (1068) George; (2137i) Zechariah; (2137iii) John, b. 1632; (2137iv) Nathaniel; (2137ii) Benjamin, but the order is unk. as also (2137ix) Patience, (2137viii) Elizabeth and (2137vii) Mary, wh. m. (2137vii[1]) John Peterson; all as Bradford says, bef. 1650.

"He was rep. 1645, and some yrs. later; an orig. propr. of Bridgewater, [[vol. 4, p. 141]] as in 1652, he had been among the purch. of Dartmouth. His w. d. 1677 and he d. 1680; in 1668 have est. in Middleborough to (2137ix[1]) John Haskins and (2137viii[1]) Francis Walker, wh. m. respectiv. Patience and Elizabeth"

-- James Savage, "A Genealogical Dictionary Of the First Settlers of New England, Before 1692" c/o http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/

2137. Mary Buckett/ Becket

  • b. 17 Jan. 1589/90 Eckington, Worcester, England
  • d. 16 Dec. 1676 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
  • ARV July 1623 Plymouth, MA on "Anne"
  • Family: (2136) George Soule
  • i. Zachariah Soule
    • b. BEF 22 May 1627 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA (Division of Cattle)
    • d. BEF 3 Mar. 1663/64 of Duxbury, Plymouth, MA (in the Canada Expedition)
    • m. Margaret Ford
        b. 1639 Marshfield, Plymouth, MA
      • d. 28 Sep. 1676 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
      • Father: William Ford /Foord of Southwark, Surrey
      • Mother: Hannah Eames of Fordington, Dorset
    • no issue
  • ii. Benjamin Soule
    • b. 1630 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
    • d. 26 Mar. 1676 Pawtucket, Providence, RI (killed by Indians)
    • m. unknown BEF 1655
    • a. Sarah Soule
      • b. 1660 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
      • d. 16 Mar. 1690 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
      • Family: Adam Wright prob. BEF 1680
        • b. 1645 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
        • d. 20 Sep. 1724 Plympton, Plymouth, MA
        • Father: Richard Wright s/o Wm & Pris Carpenter (ancestors of Sarah Palin, Gov. of AK)
        • Mother: Hester Cook d/o Fr & Hest Mahieu (ancestors of Sarah Palin, Gov. of AK)
      • 1. (4757vii[1]a[1]) Mary Wright -- ELLIS LINE
  • iii. John Soule
    • b. 1632 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
    • d. BEF 14 Nov. 1707 i. Old Duxbury Cem., Plymouth, MA
    • m. (2389[2]a) Rebecca Simmons 1655 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA -- ELLIS LINE
      • b. 1639 Plymouth Colony, MA
      • d. 1674 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
  • iv. Nathaniel Soule
    • b. ABT 1637 Plymouth Colony, MA
    • d. 12 Oct. 1699 Plymouth Colony, MA
    • m. Rose Thorn 1683 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
      • b. 1662 Dartmouth, Bristol, MA
      • d. 15 May 1702 Dartmouth, Bristol, MA
      • (poss. related to Miles Standish
    • a. Sylvanus Soule
      • b. ABT 1684 of Dartmouth, Bristol, MA
      • d. AFT 27 May 1749 poss. Tiverton, Newport, RI
      • m. Sarah Slead/ Slade BEF 26 Oct. 1709 Swansea, Bristol, MA
        • b. 1 June 1687 Swansea, Bristol, MA
        • d. AFT 27 May 1749
        • Father: William Slead/ Slade of Cumberland, RI
        • Mother: Sarah Holmes d/o Jonathan & Sarah (Borden)
      • 1. William Soule
        • b. 1708 Tiverton, Newport, RI
        • d. Aug. 1778 Tiverton, Newport, RI
        • m(1): Jemima Baker 17 Aug. 1733 Tiverton, Newport, RI
          • b. 1715 Swansea, Bristol, MA
          • d. ABT 1737 Tiverton, Newport, RI
          • Father: Joseph Beaker
          • Mother: Isabel Sherman d/o Samson & Isab Tripp
        • m(2): (4757vii[1]a1) Keziah Gifford -- ELLIS LINE
      • 2. (4757vii[1]e[1]) Nathaniel Soule -- ELLIS LINE
    • b. Jacob Soule
      • b. 1687 Dartmouth, Plymouth, MA
      • d. Feb. 1747/48 Dartmouth, Plymouth, MA
      • m. (4757vii[1]d) Rebecca Gifford 22 Feb. 1709 Dartmouth, Bristol, MA -- ELLIS LINE

    "SOULE, SOLE, or SOUL, ...(1068) GEORGE, and (2137iv) NATHANIEL, s. of the preced. [(2136) George] were of Dartmouth 1686, but no acco. of either is gain."
    -- James Savage op. cit.

  • FESHK v. (1068) George Soule
  • vi. Susannah Soule
    • b. 25 Apr. 1642 Plymouth Colony, MA
    • d. Sep. 1684 North Kingston, Washington, RI
        prob. mtDNA subclade H:
        HVR1 16304C  
        HVR2 263G,315.1C,456T,522-,523-  
      SFTDP pedigree 130247
    • Family: Francis West (M) 1660 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
      • b. 1631 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
      • d. 2 Jan. 1695/96 North Kingston, Washington, RI
      • Parentage debated
  • vii. Mary Soule
    • b. 1644 Plymouth Colony, MA
    • d. AFT 1720 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
        prob. mtDNA subclade H:
        HVR1 16304C  
        HVR2 263G,315.1C,456T,522-,523-  
      SFTDP pedigree 130247
    • liv. Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
    • Family: John Peterson BEF 1665 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
      • b. ABT 1636 (BEF 1647) Occupation: Tailor
      • d. BET 29 Apr. 1718/ 26 Mar. 1720 Duxbury, Plymouth, MA
      • Father: Cornelius Peterson
  • viii. Elizabeth Soule
    • b. 1644 Plymouth Colony, MA
    • d. Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
        prob. mtDNA subclade H:
        HVR1 16304C  
        HVR2 263G,315.1C,456T,522-,523-  
      SFTDP pedigree 130247
    • Family: Francis Walker BEF 1663 Plymouth Colony, MA (see NOTE)
      • b. 1637 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • d. BEF 1702 Woodbridge, Middlesex, NJ
      • Father: Joseph Walker ~1599 Engl - 1683 Portsmouth, NH (?)
      • Mother: Hannah Philbrick b. Bures, Suffolk; m. NH
  • ix. Patience Soule (F)
    • b. ABT 1648 Plymouth Colony, MA
    • d. 11 Mar. 1705/06 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
        prob. mtDNA subclade H:
        HVR1 16304C  
        HVR2 263G,315.1C,456T,522-,523-  
      SFTDP pedigree 130247
    • Family: John Haskell/ Haskins 16 Jan. 1665/66 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • b. ABT 1630 Salem, Essex, MA
      • d. 15 May 1706 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • Father: Roger Haskell Mother: Elizabeth Hardy

"...(2136) George Soule came on the `Mayflower' as a servant to the Edward Winslow family, indicating he was under 25 years old at the time; however, he did sign the Mayflower Compact, suggesting he was over 21...

"(ix) Benjamin Soule was one of the "impressed soldiers" called out by the Plymouth Colony on February 8, 1675-6, and under the command of Capt. Michael Pierce was engaged in the ill-fated battle against outnumbering Indians who out-generaled him, led him with his men into a cunningly arranged ambuscade and hewed them in pieces. From the town of Scituate fifteen were slain; from Marshfield, nine were slain; from Duxbury, four were killed, among them Benjamin Soule....

"It appears that in 1662, [(vii) Elizabeth Soule] fell from grace by committing adultery with Nathaniel Church, to whom she was engaged to be married; he refusing to fulfill the compact, they were both convicted of the criminal act and each was fined œ5. However, the alliance was continued and for the second offense both were publicly brought to the whipping post and the lash applied. Refusing to recognize his obligation to take her as his wife, she sued him for breach of promise for the sum of œ100. He was convicted by the court, and the jury awarded her œ10 and costs of suit. She was subsequently married to Francis Walker.

"In 1667 [(iii) Nathaniel Soule] was fined œ20 ($100) for publicly scandalizing his minister, Rev. John Holmes; ...in 1671 he was fined œ5 and publicly whipped `for telling several lies which tended greatly to the hurt of the Colony.' ...in 1674--he was again brought to the whipping post and publicly flagelated as punishment for committing adultery with an Indian woman; and was ordered to pay `ten bushels of Indian corn' towards the keeping of the child.

"During the excitement against the Quakers (i) John Soule was fined for his interference upon their religious services 2d Oct., 1660."

-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=craigsharrow&id=I130332 & links

The name Soule is of Norman origin, first appearing in Derbyshire

REF: http://www.houseofnames.com/coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=soule

"[(2137) Mary Beckett's] marriage to (2136) George is established through George's sale of an acre of land granted to Mary as a ship passenger, which he could do as her husband."

-- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruthhall/Soule/Soule.html

(2137) Mary Beckett's mtDNA:

      prob. mtDNA subclade H:
      HVR1 16304C  
      HVR2 263G,315.1C,456T,522-,523-  
    SFTDP pedigree 130247

Ysearch User #4ZM6Z claims descent from William Soule (1738-1811) of Dartmouth, Bristol, MA. FamilySearch shows this person to be in (2136) George Soule's line. His haplogroup is J2*. Another User, #FESHK (shown below, for first 25 markers), claims descent through Joshua, s/o Benjamin Jr., also purportedly in (2136) George's line. His results jibe with the SOULE Family TreeDNA Project (SFTDP) user #144168 and other users, and he is typed at Hg I1. Yet another SFTDP user, #61779, claimed descent from "George Soule, Pilgrim" and was found to be Hg R1a.

[LAST REVISED 4 Jan. 2010]

Haplogroup

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DYS
390

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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
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DYS
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DYS
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DYS
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DYS
464c

DYS
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Ysearch #FESHK (1068) George Soule (1639-1704) of England >Wm>Benj>B

I1

13 21 14 10 13 14 11 14 11 12 11 29 15 8 9 8 11 22 16 20 26 12 14 14 15

#FESHK's results are corroborated by over 30 SFTDP users claiming descent from (2136) George's sons (1068) George, (2137iv) Nathaniel and (2137iii) John; so I can safely assume that the line passing from (1068) George to (534) William to (535iv) Benjamin is part of the family descended from (2136) George the Pilgrim. Since this Benjamin was (267) Mary Soule's sister, the trail back from her to the Pilgrim Father is intact. What still needs to be proved, is that the latter's daughter (133) Mary Page was indeed the wife of (132) Joseph Blanchard

2138. David Thomas

  • b. ABT 21 Sep. 1620 Tafolwern, Llanbrynmair, Wales
  • d. 22 May 1689 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
  • prob. ARV America 1640/41 on "Sampson"
  • Witness, 8 July 1645 Salem, Essex, MA
  • prob. moved to Middleborough, Plymouth, MA BEF 6 July 1669
  • Occupation: Farmer, Middleborough, Plymouth, MA 1675
  • m. (2139) Joanna (Davis?) BEF 1649 of Salem, Essex, MA

"THOMAS, ...(2138) DAVID, Marblehead 1648-68."

-- James Savage op. cit.

2139. Joanna (Davis?) (see notes)

  • b. [ABT 1630] of Marblehead, Essex, MA
  • d. BET 1689/09 of Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
  • prob. moved to Middleborough, Plymouth, MA BEF 6 July 1669
  • Family: (2138) David Thomas
  • i. (1069) Deborah Thomas
  • ii. David Thomas
    • b. 1649/50 Marblehead, Essex, MA
    • d. BEF July 1733 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
    • m(1): Abigail Wood AFT 16 July 1675
      • b. 1655 Plymouth County, MA
      • d. 9 May 1704/ 10 Oct. 1719 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • Father: Henry Atwood s/o John & Joan (Coleson) of London
      • Mother: Abigail Jenney d/o John & Sarah (Carey)
    • m(2): (18581_a1) Elizabeth Annable 25 June 1718 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA -- PARRISH/ DUNCAN LINE
      • b. 1656 Dorchester, Suffolk, MA
      • d. AFT 1723 prob. Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
      • Family (1): Alexander Cannedy 1676 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
        • b. 1651 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
        • d. 1718 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
  • iii. Abraham Thomas
    • b. ABT 1651 [Marblehead, Essex, MA]
    • m. Mary unknown
  • iv. Joanna Thomas
    • b. 1657 [Marblehead,] Essex Co., MA
    • d. 11 Apr. 1718 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
    • Family: Joseph Vaughn 7 May 1680 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • b. 20 Aug. 1654 Marshfield, Plymouth, MA
      • d. 3 Mar. 1733/34 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • Father: George Vaughn
      • Mother: Elizabeth Hinksman d/o Edm & Eliz Platt
  • v. Jeremiah Thomas
    • b. ABT 1660 [Marblehead, Essex,] MA
    • d. 2 Feb. 1736/37 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
    • m(1): Lydia Howland 25 Feb. 1683/84 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • b. 9 Jan. 1664/65 Barnstable, Barnstable, MA
      • d. 6 July 1717 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • Father: John Howland s/o J & Eliz Tilley
      • Mother: Mary Lee d/o Robt & My Atwood
    • m(2): (4655[2]a[1]) Mary Sanford 29 Apr. 1720 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA -- PARRISH/ DUNCAN LINE
      • b. 30 Mar. 1664 Portsmouth, Newport, RI
      • d. 15 Nov. 1748 Freetown, Bristol, MA
      • Father: John Sanford s/o J & Eliz Webb
      • Mother: Mary Gorton s/o Sam & M Maplet
  • vi. Sarah Thomas
    • b. ABT 1663 [Beverly, Essex, MA]
    • d. 27 Oct. 1700 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
    • Family: John Holmes ABT 13 Feb. 1688/89 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • b. 22 Mar. 1662/63 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA
      • d. 7 Sep. 1728 Middleboro, Plymouth, MA
      • Father: John Holmes s/o J & Sarah
      • Mother: Patience Faunce d/o Jn & P Morton
  • vii. William Thomas
    • b. ABT 1665 [Beverly, Essex,] MA
    • d. 5 Apr. 1734 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
    • m(1): Sarah Pratt 30 July 1691 Taunton, Bristol, MA
      • b. ABT 1668 Plymouth Co., MA
      • d. 14 May 1702 Middleboro, Plymouth, MA
      • Father: Samuel Pratt s/o Phin & My Priest
      • Mother: Mary Barker d/o Jn & An Wms

          "PRATT, ...PHINEAS, Plymouth, came in June 1622, as one of capt. Weston's men, planted at Weymouth, but in Mar. foll. as Gov. Winslow tells in Young's Chron. of the Pilgr. he went to P. had sh. in the div. of ld. as if he had come in the Ann with Joshua, wh. may have been a br. and so may we excuse the error of Mitchell, 279, wh. says he came in the Ann, when it is plain he was here one yr. earlier; m. 1630, a d. of Cuthbert Cuthbertson, it is said, rem. aft. many yrs. to Charlestown.

          "He address. a petition to our Gen. Ct. in 1662, accomp. with a narrative of the first planting, whereupon, they gave him 300 acres. That tract, with illustrations by the diligence of Frothingham, is print. in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. IV. 476. He d. 19 Apr. 1680, hav. been so reduced in est. as to need aid from the town. Frothinghm, 156. Perhaps in mak. his age a. 90 yrs. the inscript. on his gr.st. at Charlestown may be 10 or 12 yrs. too liberal. See Prince, Ann. I. 131, or Mr. Hale's Ed. 213."

          -- James Savage, op. cit.

        "PRATT, ...SAMUEL, Wickford 1674."
        -- James Savage, op. cit.

    • m(2): Sarah Barden 28 Feb. 1704/05 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • b. 1683 Barnstable, Barnstable, MA
      • d. 9 May 1745 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • Father: William Barden
      • Mother: Deborah Barker

  • viii. Edward Thomas
    • b. 6 Feb. 1668/69 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
    • d. 9 Dec. 1726 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
    • m. Mary Nelson BEF 1694 Middleboro, Plymouth, MA
      • b. 1673 Middleborough, Plymouth, MA
      • d. 21 Dec. 1719 Middleboro, Plymouth, MA
      • Father: William Nelson s/o William & Martha (Ford)
      • Mother: Ruth Foxwell d/o Richard & Ann (Shelley)
  • ix. Mary Thomas
    • b. ABT 1671 Middleboro, Plymouth, c. 2 Jan. 1681/82 Boston, Suffolk, MA
REF: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=homden&id=I077479 c/o Dennis Homan homden@uneedspeed.net

"a session of the Quarterly Courts at Salem on 8th July 1645 "(2138) David Thomas" is a witness in a suit for defamation of character brought by John Bartoll against Alice, wife of John Peach, Jr, for having said that the plaintiffs wife, Parnell Bartoll, had `committed adultery with the Boatswain of the ship "Sampson" in the cabin of Parnell about four years ago.'"
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=kenshaw2001&id=I017568

"...(2139) Joanna executed her consent to the sale of the Beverly property by an instrument dated at Plymouth 14th July 1669."
-- Essex County Deeds book 3, pages 57 and 189 c/o Kenneth Linwood Shaw III kenshaw68@christian.net

"(2138) David Thomas' death record is not in the vital record book, however I do have the inventory here with the date of 12 Dec. 1689. It says,

    'Joanna relict widow of the within : named David Thomas (can't read this word) approved before William Bradford Esq.'

then goes on to name the others. It seems Joanna inherited the whole of it, quite unusual in those days. (2139ix) Mary and (2139iv) Joanna Thomas are both listed in Boston Vital Records on pgs. 156, 161 and the dates are assumed to be the date they were submitted and not their date of birth. There are no gravestones for the parents (2138) David and (2139) Joanna.
In the book 'Thomas Families of Plymouth County, Mass.' written by John Marshall Raymond (Thomas Family Publications, 1980) has a reference in the notes that say (2139) Joanna (Davis), I believe Davis is in reference to one of the contributors of the book and not her maiden name."
-- Janet Griffith c/o http://genforum.genealogy.com/thomas/messages/15416.html

"The Pratt Directory 1995 Revised Edition, compiled by Jayne Pratt Lovelace, Ancestor House, 417 W. McNair St., Chandler , A Z 8 5224, 1995, p. 748:
"SAMUEL, c. 1636, Ma., s o Phineas c. 1592 and Mary Priest of Plymouth, Charlestown, etc. M. 1668 Mary BARKER b. Scituate, d o John and Anna WILLIAMS of Duxbury. Estate rec. quoted in B179 and B567 prove her idy. Samuel was killed 26 Mar 1676, Battle of Rehoboth, by Indians... When his fas est. was divd July 1738, Samuel PRATT, wheelwright of Middleboro, MA., and (2139vii) William THOMAS, h o dtr (2139vii[1]) Sarah below , among heirs..."
-- http://www.e-familytree.net/F230/F230917.htm

"from TORREY:
"(2138) THOMAS, David (-1689) & (2139) Joanna _____ (-1689+); by 1649; Salem/Middleborough {Middleborough Hist. 53; MD 1:221;Thomas (#2) 1; Pilgrim Notes 5:21; Gen. Adv. 1:73; Holman Ms: Vaughan 11}"
-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=pjmpjm&id=I53253

THIRTEENTH GENERATION

4272. prob. John Soule

  • b. [ABT] 1560 Eckington, Worcester, England
  • (2136) George was orphaned when fire destroyed his home
  • m. (4273) unknown (F) ABT 1594 [of] Eckington, Worcestershire, England

4273. unknown (F)

"The "Mayflower Families ..." article says "In the chapter written by Banks for Gideon G. T. Ridlon's 'Sole, Solly, Soule, Sowles and Soulis', Banks had cited as the father of George Soule, Robert Soule of Eckingham whom, he reported, had three sons, Thomas, Robert and George named in his will of 1612. Banks' conc[l]usion was that George the youngest son, 'answers best of all the candidates ....' However, later in the same chapter he stated that the parish records prior to 1612 had been lost but that 'an examination of the years remaining show that a George Soule married in 1631 and that a Nathaniel Soule, presumably his son, was baptized three years later'. This then disposed of George, son of Robert, ..."The article further states that recent research has not produced the parents of George Soule."

-- http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=browermd2&id=I2016

"[(2136) George Soule] has been tentatively identified as son of (4272) John Soule of Eckington, Co. Worcester, and problably kinsman to Robert Soule, a wealthy London salter, who died in 1590 a native of Eckington. Robert Soule had a son Miles and a grandson of George, the Emigrant, also bore that name. All other George Soules found in England at that period have been satisfactorily eliminated. Fuller particulars of this identification will be found in the recently published Soule Genealogy for which a special extensive search covering a number of years was made by the compiler of this book.

"The Winslow family from which (9577iii) Edward was descended lived in the nearby parish of Kempsey, Co. Worcester, and it is probable that this early neighborhood association explains the apprenticeship of George Soule to the Governor. It is supposed that George Soule was in London when he joined Winslow on the voyage. Droitwich, the family home of the Winslows at that time, was a salt mining place connected in a business way with the Salters' Company of London in trade, and thus the Winslow-Soule association was extablished.

-- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruthhall/Soule/Soule.html

4274. prob. NOT Sylvester Becket

4275. prob. NOT Elizabeth Hill

REF: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=craigsharrow&id=I130335George Soule was one of the 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact.

"[(2136) George Soule] was married at Plymouth, before 1626, to (2137) Mary Becket (or Bucket), who came over on the "ANNE" in 1623. Nothing is known of her ancestry.
-- http://home.surewest.net/moseley/bios.html

Whoever 2137) Mary Beckett's mother was, her mtDNA was likely:

      prob. mtDNA subclade H:
      HVR1 16304C  
      HVR2 263G,315.1C,456T,522-,523-  
    SFTDP pedigree 130247

4276. David Thomas

4277. unknown

INDEX = siblings

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