A Sullivan family descendant took a Big Y DNA test at Family Tree DNA and matched the Skaggs for Y-DNA. This has led us all down a rabbit hole of Sullivan(t) genealogy to try to find out how this tester could be related to the Longhunter branch of the Skaggs family.
The Longhunter branch of the Skaggs family is described here. Our research of the genealogy of the Sullivan family resulted in us questioning the common view of the Sullivan pedigree as described in our earlier post here. We found evidence that calls into question whether Thomas Sullivan, father of Daniel, was the Thomas from Maryland who married Sarah Wood, as shown below:
1 Thomas Sullivan (1765-1830)
+ Sarah Wood
2 Daniel Sullivan (1786-1815)
+ Esther Lytle
3 Alfred Sullivan (1811-1899)
+ Sarah Fountain
4 Solomon Sullivan (1849-1912)
+ Ella Dorr
5 Alfred Sullivan (1878-1956)
+ Eva Wilson
6 Delbert Sullivan (1908-1983)
+ Ruth Nihart
The Sarah Wood of Anne Arundel County, Maryland who married Thomas Sullivan was the daughter of William Wood of Anne Arundel County who died in 1804. Information about the probate of the estate of William Wood, deceased, is found in summary at his Find-a-Grave site here. William Wood died intestate and Thomas Sullivan was an administrator of the estate of William Wood in 1807 in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. This Thomas Sullivan in Anne Arundel County in 1805-1807 was different from the Thomas Sullivan in the 1804 Barren County, Kentucky tax list and who was a member of the committee to erect the Old Mulkey Meeting House in Barren County in 1804. So we were interested in the family of the Thomas Sullivan of Old Mulkey Meeting House fame.
THEN EVERYTHING CHANGED
We did a Y-DNA test on a descendant of Thomas Sullivan, Jr, son of Thomas Sullivan who was on the committee to erect the Old Mulkey Meeting House. We thought he might be brother to Daniel Sullivan who married Esther Lytle. They did not match. It appears that the Thomas Sullivan who was associated with the Old Mulkey Meeting House might be from the Sullivan(t) family of Charlotte County, Virginia. Our Sullivan tester matches the Skaggs family, not the Charlotte County Sullivants.
That descendant of Thomas Sullivan Jr definitely did not match our Sullivan descendant.
We are now back to looking for another Sullivan family in Kentucky about 1810. There are records that show that Alfred Sullivan (1811-1899) was son of a Sullivan and born in Kentucky. Our focus is now on the family of Peter Sullivan (1755-1840) related to the Sellards family of Jenny Wiley fame who was in Floyd County, Kentucky in 1810 with an un-accounted-for son age 16-25. Could he be our "Daniel Sullivan"?
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