Early Long Families

The Long Surname DNA Project

Including Longe, Lang and Other Variations

Early Long Families

Long Family Progenitors

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A discussion of Pre-Revolution Longs that are the progenitors of living Longs that are participants of the Long Surname DNA Project and that have a documented paper trail to their progenitor.

David Long of Maryland (d. 1697 Queen Anne's County)

David Long of Queen Anne's County Maryland is the progenitor of numerous living Longs. Most of what is known about David Long and his early descendants is provided in these documents: The Descendants of John Long, Sr. of Maryland (1685-1746) by Leroy Eastes, and "LONG - John, David, John, John Jr, James, James Jr" by Cecil Gene Long, and Long Families of Colonial Maryland by the late James M. Overhuls. This David Long is believed to have been either English or Scots-Irish and is believed to be the son of a John Long that arrived in Virginia in 1635.

The Y-DNA haplotype of this David Long (b. ca.1640-5, d. June 23, 1697) has been reliably established through Long Surname Project DNA testing of descendants having a paper trail to two of his sons. One son is the David Long who married Ann Lockwood. The other son is John Long who married Ann Herrington. The David Long/Ann Lockwood family settled in in the Cypress Swamp area of southern Sussex County, Delaware on land David patented in 1749. The John Long/Ann Herrington family emigrated to Greene County of PA with subsequent family migrations to Indiana and Ohio.

Projects participants that share the Y-DNA haplotype of David Long of Queen Anne's County Maryland include those of Project Subgroup A. These participants include #'s 2, 5, 8, 9, 19, 30, 52, 159, 198, and 221 on the Participants Page.

Y-DNA haplogroup is I2a.

The Long Surname DNA Project contact person for queries related to this Long is William O. (Bill) Long.

Ware Long of Culpeper County, Virginia

Ware Long of Culpeper County, Virginia was initially believed to have been born in 1691 and died in 1803 making him 112 years old when he died. This story was related to John T. Long by his grandfather Joel Long in 1868 and submitted to Chicago Libraries in 1908. Subsequent research reveals that Ware Long was most likely born around 1720, the son of John Long born 1700 and Ann Ware, daughter of Nicholas Ware.
John Long, father of Ware, was said to be the eldest son of Richard and Ann Long. Richard was the son of Jeremiah (b.1631) & Francis Long. These early Longs settled along the Rappahannock River in the 1600’s, moving westward to Culpeper County and beyond.
There are several documents that give us more information about Ware Long and his Early Virginia Long Family: The Genealogy of the Descendants of Ware Long of Culpeper, by John Turner Long, Long Families Along the Rappahannock River Before 1800, by Paul C. Buchanan, Ph. D., A Granddaughter’s Journey Back---to Christopher Long, by Carol Lynn Rusch, and The Long Journey West, The Long Family of Old Rappahannock, Virginia, by Janice Brannon, among others.

The Y-DNA haplotype of this Ware Long has been established through Long Surname Project DNA testing of descendants of Ware Long.

Ware Long’s Y-DNA haplogroup is: R1b1b2a1a.

Projects participants that share the Y-DNA haplotype of Ware Long of Culpeper County, Virginia include those of Project Subgroup L. These participants include # 7, 46, 107, 114, 149 and 184 on the Participants Page.

The Long Surname DNA Project contact person for queries related to Ware Long of Culpeper County, Virginia is Christine Thiessen

Samuel Long of Somerset County, Maryland

Samuel Long (1645-1695) came to the new world from England via Barbados and landed in Northampton County (Eastern Shore) Virginia around 1665-66 and settled in Morumsco, Somerset County MD. Samuel Long's father has yet to be determined. The Long Family has been in the Americas since 1623. A William Longe arrived in 1623 on the ship Providence with Henry Carsley. They were in Daniel Gookins’ Muster when the census of 1624-25 was taken. It is unclear if this William Longe was in fact Samuel’s father or grandfather.
Matthew Wise (deceased), a professor at the U of Virginia, did a comprehensive book on the Boston’s of Somerset County MD and included the Long Family as part of that discussion. In the Long Family activity included, #’s 37, 71 and 73 are linked via DNA results.
Number 37 and 73 are exact to 67 markers.
The Long Surname DNA Project contact person for Samuel Long of Somerset County Maryland is Ray Long, a descendant of Samuel Long.

Zachariah Long
of Litchfield, Connecticut and Prescott County, Ontario, Canada

Zachariah Long (1749-1829) first appeared in the Litchfield, CT records in 1774 when he and his wife, Susanna, were granted land by her father, Elisha Borden. Zachariah served in the militia in Litchfield in 1775, removed to Rutland County, Vermont about 1783, to Plattsburgh, New York in 1793, and finally to Longueil, Prescott County, Ontario in 1796, where he died in 1829. He and Susanna were the parents of five sons (Alexander, Edmond, Borden, Dennis, and William) and three daughters (Mary, Sarah, Almy), most of whom settled in Canada; some of their descendants migrated to Western Canada and others to Michigan, New York, Illinois, etc.
Records of Zachariah’s origins have not yet been documented, although DNA evidence links him to the descendants of Joseph Long of Dorchester, Massachusetts and, his son, Thomas Long (1644-1711) of East Windsor, Connecticut. Research on this line has been documented by Mary (Wood) Bates [Long Family of Dorchester and Conn., by Mary (Wood) Bates, 1931].
Participants #’s 14, 41, 119, and 130 fall in Group E on the Long DNA study. The Long Surname DNA Project contact person for Zachariah Long is Harry Long.