Todd Family # 3 (TF3):
The Family of John Todd 1618/1620-1689/1690 of Rowley, Essex County Massachusetts
John Todd of Rowley Massachusetts is documented there in 1644 and hence is a contemporary of Christopher Todd 1617-1686. Some sources claim a general Yorkshire origin, a Bradford, Yorkshire origin, a close kinship to Christopher Todd of Pontefract Yorkshire, and an unknown English origin. “The Todd Family in America”, compiled by John Edwards Todd 1833-1907, edited by a distant cousin George Iru Todd 1872-1925 and published in 1920. contained two contradictory statements concerning the connection between the Christopher Todd family and the family of John Todd who settled in Rowley Massachusetts. One was that the origins of John Todd of Rowley were unknown and the other stated that John was a cousin to Christopher identified in the parish registers. Male DNA samples from descendants of these two families revealed that the two families do not share a common male ancestor.