The English Origins of the Orcutt Family in American($24.99Value)

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Three immigrant ancestors from one family in England arriving in the American Colonies in the 1660's; all three bearing different surnames. All fought in the same wars--sometimes on different sides--and helped shape the course of a brand new country and their descendants now number in the hundreds of thousands--if not millions--having lost the knowledge of being related to one another over the passing centuries until finally now being reunited. While it may sound like the plot of a fictional novel or Netflix series, it's a true and astounding story uncovered by Y-line DNA testing. Who was William Orcutt and where did he come to America in 1664 from? That has long been a mystery and a subject of controversy. Using Y-line DNA and this author's many years of personal Orcutt family research, this work lets the sun shine in and dispels many of the mistakes of the past while finally shedding light on the good and true ENGLISH origins of this old and well-established American family, including the nativity of William Orcutt and his previously unknown brother (as proven by Y-line DNA testing), John Knowles of Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, as well as their cousin John Fearson of Charles County, Maryland. Forget the vague, confusing, and often poorly constructed WikiTrees by people not even related to the Orcutts who have personally done no meaningful research about them, the pet theory blogs rooted solely in imagination, numerous jumbled and daunting discrepancies found in hundreds of family files on Ancestry.com and other places and the numerous mistakes found in previously published works in this 2025 update and reset of Orcutt genealogy and family history. Anyone seriously interested in the Orcutts and the Knowles will find this work enlightening and helpful in correcting, amending, and adding to their own documentation, and as use for a springboard for future research. Included is a short history of both the earliest known members of the family and the ancestral home place of Worcote/Hurcutt in Worcestershire, England dating back to pre 1066 A.D. and is also the key to unlocking a century old mystery and disproving the widely mistaken connection of the Orcutts to the Clan Urquhart. Other mistakes such as "William Orchar", Susanna Orcutt (actually Bickley) md to Samuel Edson, and the wives, Jane Washburn, Hannah Smith, and Hannah (Leonard) Newton for William Orcutt Jr. of Bridgewater is addressed, clarified, and corrected. Associated surnames include, ORCUTT HURCUTT AWCOTT HORCOTT AUCOTT ACCUT SMITH NEWTON BICKLEY EDSON KNOWLES PEARSON FEARSON MCPHERSON ELDER ASTIN AUSTIN HAYWARD HAWARD HOWARD MITCHELL BETTRIDGE DOWLER and many more in both England and Massachusetts found in ca.1550-1750.