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In the interim, we've got results for 20 more markers, and the results are more conclusive: Lincolnshire Coddingtons match on 41 of 43 markers, and differ from Surrey (Stockdale) Coddingtons on 35 of 43 (if I counted right).
LIncolnshire Coddingtons are lucky. They have accumulated two changes in 400+ years, whereas Surrey Coddingtons, so far, are identical. That means there are at least three known kinds of Lincolnshire Coddingtons, which might be a help in breaking through brick walls.
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The first result from a certified Lincolnshire Coddington is in. The Lincolnshire Coddingtons have branches in (at least) England, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the United States. The Lincolnshire participant is part of the Canadian branch, whose lineage roots here:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coddingtons/13311.htm.
We have five Surrey participants, descendants of Stockdale Coddington, all of whom have identical Y DNA. Their most recent common ancestor is here:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coddingtons/85.htm.
The Lincolnshire and Surrey Coddingtons differ on 22 of 23 markers tested thus far--clearly not related. They also belong to different "haplogroups." Lincolnshire Coddingtons are R1b, which is the most common tribe in Western Europe. Surrey Coddingtons are I1a, which are Anglo-Saxons, i.e., originally from northern Germany/southern Denmark.
If anyone belongs to the Utah, Pennsylvania, British Columbia, or Ontario Coddington lines, I think these are probably also related to the Lincolnshire Codddingtons, and would welcome their participation. Likewise for any Irish or English Coddingtons.
Jonathan
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Hi Kris,
Actually, of the seven participants thus far, 4, not 1, are completely identical to your father, which makes five with identical "haplotypes" (i.e. identical Y DNA values). None of these men, including your father are closer than half 6th cousins, and some are 8th cousins.
Y dna mutates VERY slowly. The overall average mutation rate suggests that one change should happen within about 5 generations. In the case of Stockdale's descendants, none have been found (yet) in 8-9 generations.
But we've only got seven participants, which means we haven't looked very hard. Actually, considering that there may only be ca. 4-5,000 Coddingtons in the US and Canada, and only a tiny fraction of those are interested in genealogy, 7 is pretty good.
But, no, none of the participants are closer to your father than 6th cousins--which the common ancestor lived in the 1700's.
As far as books go, the best strategy would be embellish bare facts with history. John Calvin, for example, was a miner in Friendsville in 1920. So research mining in Garrett Co. in 1920 via the public library or the internet. Odds are John Calvin's life was average, as Satchel Page once famously said.
A bit further back, William Alexander (1824-1904) was sheriff of Garrett Co. in 1873. By then county courts were going strong, and if you looked at their dockets, WA no doubt starred in a lot of trials.
A long way back, Benjamin, husband of Annar Crane, was a rev. war vet. Here is what I have found thus far:
"While living at Elizabethtown, Essex Co., NJ, he enlisted in Spring of 1776 and served at various times, whenever called upon, to the end of the Revolutionary War, as a Private under Captains Sears and Asher F. Randolph (Asher FitzRandolph), Major Hayes and Colonels Jacob Crane and Crow in the New Jersey Troops, and as a privateer, entering at Brunswick, NJ, under Captains Marriner and John Storey. He was in the battles at Hackensack, Woodbridge (in which battle he was wounded by three musket balls in his right leg), and at Connecticut Farms. Also, during his sea service, he was in several engagements, assisting in capturing more than one prize (ship) and over one hundred prisoners.
In his application for a pension, he made the following affidavit:
"That at the end of three years land service, he entered the naval service of the United States at New Brunswick, New Jersey and served to the end of the war as a private, cruising for the chief part of the time off Sandy Hook in gunboats and whale boats under the command of Captain John Storer. In the service he was in several engagements and assisted in taking a British Brig mounting sixteen guns into Little Egg Harbor. Further states that under the command of Captain Storer, they took by surprise in the night a British Transport lying in the Narrows toward the light house with a man-of-war tender and two sloops, in all carrying ten guns. After the battle, they burnt the vessels and took the prisoners to Woodbridge, Middlesex Co, New Jersey."
In 1785 he moved to Alleghany Co., MD. (From Benjamin's declaration in order to obtain pension benefits (7 March 1836), and from documents presently held by Mr Eugene Johnson (August 2000)).
In 1776 The Maryland General Assembly created the western counties of Washington and Montgomery from Frederick, and two years later reserved all unpatented lands westward of Fort Cumberland" for Maryland soldiers of the Revolution. In 1787 it commissioned Colonel Francis Deakins to survey 4165 fifty acre lots for the veterans.
The Deakins report listed 323 squatters claiming 636 surveyed lots. Squatters living along the Braddock at the time of the military surveys [1787] included Benjamin Coddington. Along the Youghiogheny River the Coddington brothers (William, Benjamin and Samuel) and the Frazee family (Jeremiah and Jonathan) were given preference for several parcels. Of the more than 4,000 military grants surveyed in 1787, only 2,275 were actually allotted to veterans. Most owners sold their lots at once to speculators. The plots sold for an average of 12 dollars.
In the 1790 Census, the population of Allegany County was 4,800, of whom 258 were black slaves.
He died on his farm on Rich Hill, near Selbysport, then in Allegany Co., but now (since about 1850) in Garrett Co., MD, on April 19, 1840. His first wife, Annar Crane, died there on April 20, 1818, and both were buried in a country graveyard on the farm (visited by John I. Coddington in 1947). He evidently went to Cincinnati, Ohio, after Annar's death, to visit some of his children, and while in Cincinnati he met and married Isabella Whitroh, on December 24, 1818. The marriage was performed by D. Hayden, Minister of the Gospel. The record is in Marriage Book 1, page 158, Probate Court of Hamilton Co., Cincinnati, OH. Benjamin's will, dated Dec 28, 1838, probated in Allegany Co., MD, May 12, 1840 (Will Book A, folio 463, Probate Court, Allegany Co., Cumberland, MD) mentions his wife Isabella and his children (all by his first marriage, of course). (per John I. Coddington letter dated April 3, 1978) (Info provided by Mary Kay Coddington Eklund, July 2000). He left a libe!
ral and equal share to each of his children less certain sums already given to them, and to Jonathan his farm of 204 acres, he to pay the other heirs $2800. He disposed of his Negro slaves as follows:
'And whereas part of the property which I now possess hath been chiefly acquired by joint industry and frugality of my dear wife and myself and thinking some addition to her thirds necessary the better to enable her to live with convenience and comfort, I give and bequeath to my said wife during her life time a yellow girl by the name of Eliza.
I give and bequeath to my son Jonathan my yellow boy Jackson with the express condition that he is not to be sold as a slave and if he sells him he is to be sold and to remain in Allegany Co. and only until he arrives at the age of Fourty.
It is my will and desire that the balance of my negroes consisting of Nancy, Mary, Samuel, Perry, Eliza, Jerry, Jim and all others I may have that they be equally divided among my heirs residing in Allegany Co. and not to serve longer than they arrive at the age of Fourty."
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I'm looking to get in touch with the Coddington family decendents of John Calvin (born 1874) of Friendsville, Md married to Della. I'd really like to reach out to you and see if you have any stories or photos you can share.
John Calvin would be my great great grandfather. He son was Ernest, married to Blanche Olive Artice. I'm also looking for Artice information but that's another subject.
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Hello Jonathan,
I while back my father took this test and it said one of the participants was an identical match to my fathers DNA.
How does that relate to my father? Would that make him a really close cousin? Can any information about the other participants be shared?
Just wondering. I'm putting together a family tree book and I could use some "family history" that has not been published. I plan to have this book completed by end of July so I can give all of my 9 aunts and uncles a copy at our family reunion.
And if any of the Coddington family decendents of John Calvin (born 1874) of Friendsville, Md married to Della are reading this, I'd really like to reach out to you and see if you have any stories or photos you can share.