Ahh, BISCOE (a mystery)

[nong43]

I may be a bit closer towards solving this eight-year old mystery. Or maybe I'm not...

A couple of months ago, I uploaded my AncestryDNA results to some other sites, one of which was FamilyTreeDNA. I was contacted on the site by someone who is also on Ancestry, and with whom I share some DNA (11cM, making us anything between 5th-8th cousins - I'd go with the higher number since 5th cousins would have a common ancestor in the second half of the 18th century). The only family we seem to have in common (there are over 30,000 people on his tree)...is the Biscoes.

I still don't know who our common ancestor might be, though; he is descended from Nathaniel Biscoe, born in Bucks, who settled in Watertown, Massachusetts, and I probably descend from Mary Biscoe, who died in 1688 (although her brother Moses refers to her as Ruth in his will, for reasons I still can't get to the bottom of).

So, now I know that it's highly likely I am descended from this family, but I'm still none the wiser as to how. Had no luck with Robert Biscoe (1627-1685)'s will - I just got a message from Bucks Archives saying it was water damaged and so they couldn't photocopy it.