About us
This is a location specific DNA project and is open to all who have an ancestor that lived in Rehoboth, Massachusetts prior to 1750. Most Rehoboth families intermarried heavily so the idea behind this project is to share genealogy information about Early Rehoboth Families and see what residual DNA connections there may be. There is no guarantee that there will be any after 200+ years. So this is really an experiment. It may also be interesting from a mtDNA and Y-DNA aspect. Again quite experimental.
Please let me know if I have missed a surname.
When you join it is helpful to send a list of Rehoboth Families to me. I would appreciate if you send the various lineages in abbreviated form ie :
William 1 ALLEN, Benjamin 2, Jeremiah 3, Benjamin 4
Henry 1 BUTTERWORTH, John 2, Patience 3
In this case William ALLEN and Henry BUTTERWORTH are the immigrants (generation 1) Benjamin is William's son, Jeremiah his grandson and so forth. End each listing when the family moved out of Rehoboth or with the daughter.
Surnames:
Please contact the Administrator with your questions or to add names.
However, Rehoboth is a bit unusual in that the original town center (now located in Rumford, Rhode Island) is not where Rehoboth is located today AND Rehoboth has for many hundreds of years survived with a very scattered, rural population. The names of the original Proprietors are still in evidence today. The insular and rural nature of the area may provide for more concentrated evidence of shared ancestry than would be typical of many New England small towns.
More information is located at my site https://wheatonwood.com/rehoboth-massachusetts/
Please let me know if I have missed a surname.
When you join it is helpful to send a list of Rehoboth Families to me. I would appreciate if you send the various lineages in abbreviated form ie :
William 1 ALLEN, Benjamin 2, Jeremiah 3, Benjamin 4
Henry 1 BUTTERWORTH, John 2, Patience 3
In this case William ALLEN and Henry BUTTERWORTH are the immigrants (generation 1) Benjamin is William's son, Jeremiah his grandson and so forth. End each listing when the family moved out of Rehoboth or with the daughter.
Surnames:
Abell
Allen
Amidowne
Amindon
Angier
Blackstone
Blanding
Bliss
Bosworth
Bowen
Bragg
Brooks
Brown
Buckland
Bullock
Burr
Butterworth
Callender
Carpenter
Chaffee
Clifton
Cooper
Daggerworth
Dogget
Doggett
Eastbrook
Evans
Fitch
Freeman
French
Fuller
Gilson
Grant
Gurnsey
Hall
Holbrook
Horton
Howard
Hunt
Hyde
Ide
Ingols
Ingraham
Johnson
Jones
Kendrick
Kinsley
Lake
Leonard
Lowell
Luther
Mann
Martin
Mason
Miller
Millerd
Millard
Morris
Myles
Newman
Ormsby
Paine
Palmer
Pate
Peck
Peirce
Perren
Perrin
Perry
Reade
Redway
Roades
Robinson
Round
Sabin
Savage
Shaw
Shepardson
Smith
Stevens
Sweet
Sweeting
Tanner
Thrasher
Thresher
Thurber
Titus
Viall
Walker
Webb
West
Wheaton
Wheeler
Whitaker
Willet
Wilmot
Wilson
Woodcock
Please contact the Administrator with your questions or to add names.