Ancestry of
Matthew Modine

TV and Movie Actor

Silence Hand

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• • 6th Great-grandmother of Matthew Modine — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 387 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Hand 
  • Mother:
  • Jane Wright   
  • Birth Date:
  • 12 Mar 1678/1679 
  • Birth Location:
  • Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • BY 4 May 1725 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • John Warner Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • Jul 1715 
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  • Child:

  Hannah Warner (Ahnentafel No:193 )

• Additional marriages for Silence Hand

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  • Spouse:
  • Ephraim Wilcox
  • Marriage Date:
  • 23 Oct 1698
  • Marriage Location:
  • Chatham, Middlesex, Connecticut

• Sources for Silence Hand

  • ¹ Connecticut, U.S., Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), Birth record for Silens Hand.
  • ² Connecticut, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999, Probate file for Silence Willcox, 04 MAY 1725.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Chatham, p. 42, Marriage record for Ephraim Wilcox and Silence Hand.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1901, Vol. 55, p. 31.
  • ⁵ Adams, Charles Collard, Middletown Upper Houses: A History of the North Society of Middletown, Connecticut, from 1650 to 1800 . . ., New York: The Grafton Press, Genealogical Publishers (1908), 744, gives Silence's father as Benjamin.
  • ⁶ Manwaring, Charles William, A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Vol. 2: Harford District, 1700-1729, Hartford, Connecticut: R. S. Peck and Co., Printers (1904), 615, probate for Silence (alias Warner) Wilcocks.
  • ⁷ Warner, Lucien C. and Mrs. Josephine Genung Nichols, The Descendants of Andrew Warner, New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Co. (1919), 38, 98, gives Silence's father as Joseph.