Born in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Daughter of John Bird
and Elizabeth (Williams) Bird
Sister of
John Bird, Abiel Bird, Damaris (Bird) Hawes, Mehitable (Bird) Blake, Hannah (Bird) Dean, Samuel Bird, Elizabeth Bird, Katherine (Bird) Dean, Silence (Bird) Wild and Jane (Bird) Wilbore
Wife of
Isaac Merrick
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Mother of
Anna (Merrick) Sumner, Isaac Merrick, Dighton (Myrick) Richmond, Elizabeth (Merrick) Winslow, Rebecca (Merrick) Hathaway and Mercy (Merick) Ellis
Died
at about age 38
in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts Bay
Profile last modified
| Created 14 Sep 2010
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Biography
Dighton was born to John and Elizabeth (Williams) Bird on 23 Oct 1687 in Taunton, MA.[1]
She married Isaac Merrick, likely in Taunton, MA[2]
Sources
- ↑ Thomas Bird, of Dorchester, Massachusetts and some of his descendants, William Blake Trask, Boston, 1871
- ↑ Genealogy of the Merrick--Mirick--Myrick family of Massachusetts] by Merrick, George Byron. Pages 20-22.
- Ancestry Family Trees. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com.
- "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 02 April 2020, 13:55), entry for Dighton Bird(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LWMS-YY1); contributed by various users.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dighton:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Dighton:
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Alice (Davidson) Gedge 
:
23andMe, GEDmatch ZN710492C1 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch ZN710492C1 [compare], Ancestry member adgedge
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch ZN710492C1 [compare], FTDNA kit #429114
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~0.39%
Suzanne (Sawyer) St.John :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #MK38291
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Claris (Cole) Aller :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch QU7211740 [compare], FTDNA kit #898895
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~0.39%
~3.12%
Lyal Davidson :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch WU4806822 [compare], FTDNA kit #841459
- Advice before editing this pre-1700 Bird profile? Apr 24, 2020.
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