Zachariah Morgan m. Polly Holt - DNA Test
I am a descendant of Zachariah Morgan b. abt 1774 who married Mary Polly Holt and settled in Clay County Kentucky around 1810. He was my ggg grandfather. There has been a lot of speculation about who his parents were. The most prominent theory is that he was the illegitemate son of Hannah Morgan West and a man named John Benton, which would mean (if I understand all of this DNA stuff correctly) that a male descendant of his should match a y-chromosome DNA test with a male Benton ancestor, not a Morgan ancestor. Two months ago, I submitted a DNA sample for testing. The results are quite interesting. I have two exact matches, both Morgan, not Benton. One match is with a man who was born in 1821 in South Carolina. This is possible, even under the Morgan/Benton theory, since this man was born at a time that could have made him the son or grandson of Zachariah. Zachariah had a son by this man's name that we do not know much about and it is a fact that Zachariah spent time in SC. The other match however, was with a man reportedly born in Wales in 1750. The match indicates that I have a common male ancestor with this person. If Zachariah was born in 1775, twenty-five years after this person, wouldn't it be impossible for Zachariah's father to have been John Benton? Apparently, his father was a Morgan, but his mother was also a Morgan, Hannah Morgan West. Very confusing.
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Larry Morgan 10/12/03
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Donna Pederson 8/09/03
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