---- Ford (Y-DNA)

Status summary

As of February 28, 2025:

• LOW PRIORITY as no surviving Y-DNA line

Paper trail

For more information see TAG 42:35-42 and 56:32-35.

First Generation

The language of contemporary records hints where ---- Ford had sailed on the Fortune with his wife and two children, but he died sometime before the 1623 Land division. He married [| Martha] and had three children before his early death: John (c 1617), Martha (c 1619) and a son (1621-????).

Second Generation

John Ford was born in England ca 1617. He either died or left Plymouth Colony sometime between 5 Jan 1640/1 and the 1643 Able to Bear Arms list. He was not known to have married so there is no known surviving Y-DNA lineage for this family.

References and External Resources

• Soule, W. Becket, Passengers of the Fortune (1621)" (Heritage Books 2023) pp. 45-47.
• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633" (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, 2004) pp. 211-212.

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