Y-DNA Project

Started by Sean Ernest Wood on Monday, February 3, 2020
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I've created a Y-DNA Project to establish/determine the genetic linage of the Atwood's of Sanderstead Court. I've only been able to confirm my own line up to Henry Wood/Atwood B abt 1619 D 1670. Henry Wood According to Elijah Francis Atwood he was the son of John the Leather Seller and grandson to Nicholas Atwood. Much discussion has taken place around the validity of his claims as it does not provide sources that meet today's standard of proof. I would encourage any Male Atwood who might be of this line to take a Y-DNA test with familytreedna and join the project.

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/atwoodsof-sanderstead-court/ac...

Sean, I know this is a Y-DNA project. Though I am not a male to add Y information, I can help by supplying information for a paper trail to document who lived where when.
Could I be added to the FTDNA PROJECT?

I think it is important to document who are the brothers of Henry Wood/Atwood. I have been working to document where Henry and his brothers: John, Stephen, and others lived, owned land and worked together. I found references by: Savage, CH Wight, Nathaniel Morton, and E F Atwood and others which give locations of adjacent and co-owned land, a garden plot they worked together, jobs they shared, taking arms together, being registered as "Free men" together and their relationship to other members of the Atwood/Wood family. There are also land records of grants of land and deeds, wills and other records. DNA will cement the family relationship.

It has been said that to be able to bear arms and own property in the colonies, John, Stephen and Henry would have been born by 1620. Some people have taken that to mean that Henry Wood and, Stephen Atwood and John Atwood were born about that time. But that in not correct. John's birth and baptism were recorded in 1614, and Henry was born in 1616. Henry's age at death was recorded as age 53, in 1670. That would put his birth in 1616. Other dates for Henry and John can not be near 1620, and should be corrected.

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