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Group A - Essex, England (Haplogroup I1)
#50, This project member was our initial Trott participant in the UK. He traces his line to Richard Trott, born around in Newport, near Saffron Walden, Essex. There have been Trotts in this part of Essex at least since , when the Lay Subsidy lists Willelmo Trott of Manwedene (Manuden), which is only five miles from Newport. In the early 18th century, this member&#;s ancestor Michael Trott moved to Deal in Kent, and his descendants are still there today.
#51, This project member was the 4th cousin twice removed of #50, They exactly match on 37 markers, confirming the relationship that they had established by traditional genealogical methods. He died in
#, This project member traces his ancestry back eight generations to John Trott, who married Elizabeth Day in in Melton, Suffolk, and lived in nearby Woodbridge. The family continued to live in Woodbridge until the late 19th century, when James Trott and his family moved to Ipswich, about eight miles away. Members of this family continue to live in East Anglia.
Extensive research has revealed no connection between the Woodbridge line and the one originating in Newport, but the DNA results now prove that there is a relationship some time before This member matches #50, and #51, on 34 out of 37 markers.
#, and #, These project members both trace their ancestry to Benjamin Trott Jr () and his wife Mehitable Sewell of Woolwich, Sagadahoc County, Maine. #, is descended from their son Capt Benjamin Trott, born in at Woolwich and #, from their son James Fullerton Trott, born in at Woolwich. Benjamin Trott Jr was a son of Benjamin Trott Sr () and his wife Joanna Payson, who moved with their family to Woolwich around
Benjamin Trott Sr was probably born in at Boston, Massachusetts, a son of Samuel Trott () and his wife Mercy Bale. Samuel was probably a son of Thomas Trott (ca ) and his wife Sarah Proctor. Thomas arrived in Boston in from Bristol, on the James, with American painter Benjamin Trott (c, in Boston – 27 November , in Baltimore) was an American painter who specialized in portrait miniatures. His original source of artistic training is unknown, and he was probably self-taught. He seems to have begun his career as a miniaturist in His earliest known works are oil portraits of the residents of Nottoway and Amelia Counties in Virginia; possibly painted in collaboration with William Lovett (). In , he was offered advice and assistance by Gilbert Stuart, following the latter's return from Ireland. Of greater influence, however, were the miniatures of Walter Robertson () an Irish painter who had come to America with Stuart. In , Trott accompanied (or followed) Stuart when he went to Philadelphia, which served as his headquarters for many years; interrupted only by a painting trip to Lexington, Kentucky. After , he frequently shared a home with Thomas Sully, who may have introduced him to the merchant, Benjamin Chew Wilcocks (), a major patron. The two eventually had a falling out during a dispute between local artists and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where Trott held several major exhibitions. He also taught drawing at the associated Society of Artists. Citing the weather, he moved to South Carolina in His stay was brief, however, and he returned to Philadelphia, where he got married. He seemed to be ashamed of his choice for a wife, as the marriage was never publicly announced. It may have failed. He then relocated to Newark, where he lived in seclusion. Later, he moved to New York, where he attempted to paint full-scale portraits, with little success. In , he returned to Boston, for a time. He moved to Baltimore around He was apparently obsessed with the idea that some artists had a secret chemical process for applying pigments to ivory and, throughout his life, s From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Trott is a surname. Notable people with the name include: Putting an exact date or location of execution on an unsigned portrait can be an impossible task. Some times the best you can do is to answer the question &#;Can you place the subject and the artist in the same place?&#; This is an American miniature of Dr. John Floyd () -- a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and governor of the state of Virginia -- by the artist Benjamin Trott (). Trott&#;s early 19 century male works are distinctive &#;thin washes of white and blue to depict an open sky, finely drawn wispy hair, elongated neck, the elegantly posed body turned to the right or left while still making direct eye contact with the viewer. Trott rarely signed or dated his miniatures and, like many artists, no diary or written list of his subjects has survived. The owner and descendant of Floyd had no idea where or when the portrait might have been painted. Research did not reveal the existence, either in print or online, of any reference to Trott having painted Floyd. So the family, with the help of a Floyd genealogist, set out attempting to determine where Floyd and Trott could have met. John Floyd was born at a settlement on the Beargrass Creek near Louisville, Kentucky the youngest son of Kentucky surveyor and frontiersman Col. John Floyd (abt. ), who was killed 12 days before his youngest son&#;s birth. Thankfully, Dr. Floyd&#;s wife Letitia Preston Floyd ( &#; ) wrote a memoir after her husband&#;s death which detailed her husband&#;s early life. After Col. Floyd&#;s death in , his widow Jane &#;Sallie&#; Buchanan ( &#; ) married Alexander Breckenridge and raised a second family. But conflict between the Breckenridge family and the youngest Floyd concerned other family members &#; so much that it was suggested Floyd be sent away from Louisville to study at Dickenson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He would study t
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