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==Status summary==

===Completed as of June 4, 2026: ===
* Recruiting matrilineal (direct female-line) descendants of Deborah GATES Standish for mtDNA testing - anyone interested in submitting their DNA for testing should contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

==Biography==
For more information see: Warner, Russell L., compiler (edited by Robert S. Wakefield FASG), ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 14 Myles Standish'', General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA (2007).
===First Generation===
[https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I11350&tree=MylesStandish Deborah Gates], daughter of Thomas Gates and [https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Freeman-1396 Elizabeth Freeman] was born Stow 22 Feb 1683 and died Preston, CT 15 Jan 1745. She married Preston 1 Jun 1709 [[Standish (Y-DNA)#Third Generation |Stephen Standish]] and they had seven children: [https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I11101&tree=MylesStandish Deborah] (1711 unm.), Samuel (1713), Lois (1715/6 unm.), Abigail (1716/7), Sarah (1718/9 unm.), Israel (son, 1721/2) and Thomas (1724).

===Second Generation===
[https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I11397&tree=MylesStandish Abigail Standish] was born Preston, CT 9 Feb 1717/8 and died Lebanon, CT 31 Aug 1747. She married Lebanon 29 Dec 1743 Rufus Rood and they had two children (Lebanon): Asa (1744) and Abigail (1746).

===Third Generation===
[https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I12615&tree=MylesStandish Abigail Rood] was born Lebanon, CT 28 Oct 1746 and died prob. Tunbridge, VT in 1821. She married bef 1770 Simeon Curtis and they had seven children: Asa (1770-1771), Asahel (1772), Amzi (1775-1777), Amzi (1777), Abigail (1779 unk. if marr.), Simeon (1781) and Abel (1785).

===Conclusion===
Given the fact there is only one matrilineal/mtDNA female of the Fourth Generation (Abigail Curtis , born Tunbridge, VT 14 Mar 1779) and that her further history is unknown, it is likely there may well be no surviving matrilineal/mtDNA line today.

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==DNA results '''''TBD'''''==
To date, we know of no matrilinear (all female line) descendants of Deborah GATES Standish who has taken a mtDNA test and published their results. Matrilineal descendants are encouraged to contact MayflowerDNA1620@gmail.com

==References==
* Warner, Russell L., compiler (edited by Robert S. Wakefield FASG), ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol. 14 Myles Standish'', General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth, MA (2007).

* [https://mylesstandishsociety.org/tng/getperson.php?personID=I11350&tree=MylesStandish] "The Society of Myles Standish Descendants" Genealogy Database.

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