A donor has offered to subsidize a 67-marker test for any patrilineal
(direct-male-line) descendant of Alexander CARRICO (b. ca. 1747) or John CARRICO
(b. ca. 1748) of Beverly, Essex Co., MA. The subsidy amounts to a fifty dollar
discount on the test. Only one subsidy is being offered, so the early bird gets
it.
Conditions for this offer:
The test subject must be a male surnamed CARRICO, with a solid paper trail to
either Alexander or John (described above). Obviously, this condition means
sharing the family group sheets connecting the test subject with his ancestor.
The individual must join the CARRICO Y-chromosome DNA Surname Project (linked
below), and they must sign the Release allowing the sharing of his results.
This does not mean sharing his identity; only the testing lab and the project
admin necessarily need know the subject's identity. The project admin will be
the sole judge of whether the necessary conditions have been met.
For further information, please check out the web site:
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/Carrico/CarricoDNA.shtml
If you have any questions, please contact me privately (off list).
This is a generous offer. I hope someone will take advantage of it because we
need to find out whether the Massachusetts CARRICOs are related to the
descendants of the 1674 immigrant to Maryland, Peter CARRICO. Three of Peter's
descendants have already been tested, so we will be able to compare them
immediately when the Massachusetts CARRICO's results are returned.
The reason I want to know the answer to this question is that it appears all
CARRICOs who were in the U.S. up through the 1880 census were probably descended
from Peter, except the Massachusetts ones. Some say these two apparent brothers
are sons of Thomas CARRICO of Virginia, whose parents are also unknown. If
descendants of Alexander and John do not match the descendants of Peter, we will
have our first evidence that there was more than one CARRICO immigrant to
colonial America.
Diana Gale Matthiesen
Administrator, CARRICO Y-chromosome DNA Surname Project