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Which Douglas line are you researching? Dates and places help making connections.: John Douglass of Middlebrough, Mass and Maine
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Who is your earliest known Douglas ancestor?: John Douglass of Middlebrough, Mass

dna haplotype: don't know

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At 17:40 on April 11, 2015, William Douglas said…: http://douglashistory.ning.com/profiles/comment/list?attachedToType=User&attachedTo=21jlhbcnxlz2s&commentId=3482022%3AComment%3A5409

Should take you to a discussion on Eunice Radcliffe

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At 21:52 on April 9, 2015, Betsey Heath Howes said…: James,

I've tried, without success, to find the surname Ratleff or some variant in RI, MA, ME etc, but have not found many - and no Eunice/Agnes. Maybe someone else has found some clue as to who she was but I've come up empty.

Betsey

At 18:45 on April 7, 2015, Betsey Heath Howes said…: James, Bruce Douglass also descends from Elisha and he's the one who did the y-DNA test. If you check the Douglas DNA (FTDNA) results page you'll find a listing "from an ancestor of William Douglass 1610, New London" and among those listed is John b 1695. I'm not sure how the Ancestry results match up with FTDNA results, but I'm interested if they correlate at all. Bruce matches my Douglass cousin within just one step on 2 markers. And one of the markers is a slow mutating one that appears to be almost unique to our particular line.

Betsey

At 15:49 on April 7, 2015, Betsey Heath Howes said…: James,

One descendant of John of Middleborough has done a y-DNA test and it appears there is a fairly close link to the line of William Douglas b 1609/10 "of New London" but the link may be back in the UK. The haplogroup is R-269. I've found no records of John's actual arrival in America nor to whom he was indentured or who he worked for as a young boy when he arrived. I can tell you he m Eunice/Agnes Ratleff in Jamestown RI abt March1716/7 and their first child, John, was b in Jamestown Jan 4 1717/18. Joshua Lufkin Douglass' book on John Douglass and his descendants misses several children of John and Agnes.

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