Scientists Compared Jamestown DNA to the Mayflower Pilgrims — Whose Blood Won America?
Anglo Origins
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In 1607 came Jamestown. In 1620 came the Mayflower. Two English ships, thirteen years apart, founded two very different Americas: the profit-seeking Cavalier south and the Puritan north. But who were these settlers really, and whose descendants actually spread across the modern United States? Using forensic genetics, the Bryc 2015 ancestry study, Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups, and the colonial record, we put the Jamestown colonists and the Mayflower Pilgrims side by side and follow where their bloodlines went. Sources below.
Sources (real links, ready to paste):
1. Bryc et al. (2015), The Genetic Ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States — American Journal of Human Genetics: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
2. Smithsonian Magazine — forensic evidence of survival cannibalism at Jamestown ("Jane"): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
3. Encyclopedia Virginia — "Jane (d. 1609 or 1610)," the Starving Time skeleton: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entr...
4. National Geographic — Jamestown colonists resorted to cannibalism: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
5. 23andMe Blog — exploring the genetic roots of colonial America (Mayflower & Jamestown genetic groups): https://blog.23andme.com/articles/are...
6. Mayflower 400 — The Mayflower Story (passengers, survival, descendants): https://www.mayflower400uk.org/educat...
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I have some Jamestown kin and Mayflower
I'm kin to John Howland and cpt Smith and brewester I believe and I'm also kin to Chief massaoit and the wompanog I also had some kin come in 1660 something to new Haven Connecticut on the ship the Hercules..I know I'm Scotts Irish and Irish and Scottish and native american from my old man & and native and UK and European & German and Slavic mutt from my mom it's very well documented...
My family has been here a very long time
around 1794 to 1800 and remaining until today. My 23 and me DNA revealed I am 70% British with
ancestry from England, Ireland and Wales. My earliest ancestors from 1607 Jamestown were
from Yorkshire. My remaining DNA reflected 12% French, 8% German, 7% Scandinavian and
3% Ashkenazi Jewish. In their DNA report, they found it exceptional that I was 10% more
British than the average citizen of Britain today. I attributed this to their all being practising
Protestants with Primitive Baptists, Huguenot, Quaker and Moravian faith with
nearly all of them converted to Missionary Baptists in Hancock Co., TN by the 1830s. My
ancestors were among the original 20 families that settled the county, and they married into
15 of those families during the 100 plus years between 1794 and 1900. This resulted in me being
related to 75% or 6000 of the county's 8000 population of today. While my mother and father are
not directly related being natives of Hancock Co., TN, they both share the same 3rd great grandfather 3 times on my Dad's side and 2 times on my Mother's side. This makes him my 4th great grandfather 5 times. The vast majority of my ancestry were hard working pioneer farmers with some preachers, teachers and a half dozen sheriffs and a couple judges. I have three or four ancestors with proven minor nobility an earl from County Tipperary, Ireland and 2 or 3 barons from Yorkshire, England.
I have taken several DNA tests, most recently a full mitochondrial test and Y-111 test, both on familyTreeDNA. I'm open to further information but am steering away from rumor and am hoping for (DNA?) supported data.
Thanks for these videos! They're fascinating!
Scientists Compared Jamestown DNA to the Mayflower Pilgrims — Whose Blood Won America?
Anglo Origins
33,061 views
In 1607 came Jamestown. In 1620 came the Mayflower. Two English ships, thirteen years apart, founded two very different Americas: the profit-seeking Cavalier south and the Puritan north. But who were these settlers really, and whose descendants actually spread across the modern United States? Using forensic genetics, the Bryc 2015 ancestry study, Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups, and the colonial record, we put the Jamestown colonists and the Mayflower Pilgrims side by side and follow where their bloodlines went. Sources below.
Sources (real links, ready to paste):
1. Bryc et al. (2015), The Genetic Ancestry of African Americans, Latinos, and European Americans across the United States — American Journal of Human Genetics: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles...
2. Smithsonian Magazine — forensic evidence of survival cannibalism at Jamestown ("Jane"): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...
3. Encyclopedia Virginia — "Jane (d. 1609 or 1610)," the Starving Time skeleton: https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entr...
4. National Geographic — Jamestown colonists resorted to cannibalism: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...
5. 23andMe Blog — exploring the genetic roots of colonial America (Mayflower & Jamestown genetic groups): https://blog.23andme.com/articles/are...
6. Mayflower 400 — The Mayflower Story (passengers, survival, descendants): https://www.mayflower400uk.org/educat...