The Williston Project is a Y dna project. The Williston Y chromosome project has proven that Joseph Williston of Springfield, Mass.(b.1701) and John Williston, b. ca. 1658, of Suffolk County, Mass. are not related. We have an excellent Y-dna match between the Suffolk Co. (eastern Massachusetts) Willistons and N.C. Willistons strongly suggesting they both descend from John Williston & Abigail Salisbury of Milton, MA.