Ancestry of
Kingman Brewster

(1919–1988)

Sylvanus S. Besse Jr.

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• • Great-grandfather of Kingman Brewster — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 12 
  • Father:
  • Sylvanus Besse 
  • Mother:
  • Thankful Bates   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Nov 1809 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 21 Jul 1865 
  • Death Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lucy Anne Waterman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Jul 1832 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Vernon, Windham, Vermont 
  • Child:

  Lyman Waterman Besse (Ahnentafel No:6 )

  • Notes: 

  • Sylvanus Besse's given name is also seen as Silvanus.

• Sources for Sylvanus S. Besse Jr.

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Wareham, Vol. 308, p. 332, Marriage record for son Lyman W Besse and Henrietta L Segee.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Wareham, Vol. 184, p. 310, Death record for Silvanus Besse.
  • ³ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2001, Vol. 2.1, p. 40.
  • ⁴ The Mayflower Descendant, 1933, Vol. 31, p. 127, Birth record for Sylvanus Besse.
  • ⁵ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 39, New York: James T. White and Company (1954), 509.
  • ⁶ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Marriage record for Sylvanus Besse Jr and Lucy Ann Waterman.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 515-516.