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Priscilla (Unknown) Ramsdell (abt. 1612 - 1675)

Priscilla Ramsdell formerly [surname unknown] aka Ramsden, Chase [uncertain]
Born about in Englandmap
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of — married 1639 in Essex, MAmap
Descendants descendants
Mother of , , , , , and
Died at about age 63 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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The Puritan Great Migration.
Priscilla (Unknown) Ramsdell migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
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Disputed Origins

Previous versions of this profile claimed, citing online trees,[1] which might possibly be relying on Threlfall's theory[2] that Priscilla, wife of John Ramsdell, was daughter of Aquila Chase and Martha Jelliman. That couple's children's baptisms are recorded and do not include a daughter Priscilla.[3]

Ian Watson, with support of Christopher Child, explored the possibility that Priscilla was a daughter of Aquilla Purchase, but DNA tests disproved that possibility.[4]

Biography

Priscilla was born about 1612.

She married John Ramsdell.

She passed away in 1675.

Sources

  1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LBHL-MF1
  2. ↑ John Brooks Threlfall, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins, (Madison, WI, 1990), p 303.
  3. ↑ https://archive.org/details/sevengenerations00chas/page/20
  4. ↑ Ian Watson, The Origins of Aquila Ramsdell's Given Name: Investigating the 17th Century with Mitochondrial DNA, American Ancestors, NEHGS, Vol 18, #2, Summer 2017, pages 54-56 (subscription required).

See also:

  • Ancestral File Number: W9K6-QW




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Katherine Cappon
This may be the Priscilla Unknown that Threlfall was alluding to [1]
posted by Katherine Cappon
Aldrich-908 Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl
Katherine, please see the "disputed origins" section of the biography. Thank you.
posted by Cheryl (Aldrich) Skordahl
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
The 2017 Watson article also proved that Priscilla (_______) Ramsdell was not the daughter of Aquila Purchase.
posted by Jillaine Smith
Chris Hoyt
As noted on John's profile

See: (subscription) NEHGR: 171 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB202/i/53669/189/1423838229

posted by Chris Hoyt
Madison-125 Bobbie (Madison) Hall
The article by Ian Watson (in sources) American Ancestors (2017) tried to prove the lineage of Aquilla Ramsdell and found that he was probably *not* a grandchild of Aquilla Chase, citing John Brooks, Fifty Great Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins, (Madison, WI, 1990), 303. Also John Carroll Chase, Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquilla and Thomas Chase, (Derry, NH, 1928), 29-35. His research was inconclusive on other proof so far using Y-DNA.
posted by Bobbie (Madison) Hall
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
Ugh, I think I know why she's believed to be a Chase and possibly daughter of Aquila Chase-- one of her Children is named Aquila and that's a very rare name but used in the Aquila Chase family. Thoughts?
posted by Jillaine Smith
[Living Austin]
Chase-1562 and Chase-6682 appear to represent the same person because: Same spouse and death date
posted by [Living Austin]
Smith-32867 Jillaine Smith
What is the evidence of her being daughter of Aquila Chase, please? Thanks.
posted by Jillaine Smith
Sisson-190 Jimmy M. Sisson
Priscilla Ramsdell formerly Chase aka Ramsden

Born about 1612 in England could not be mother of Joseph RAMSDEN, b: 1620

posted by Jimmy M. Sisson

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