Ancestry of Dr.
Vannevar Bush

President, Carnegie Institution of Science

Nancy Nickerson

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• • Great-grandmother of Vannevar Bush — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 13 
  • Father:
  • Seth Nickerson 
  • Mother:
  • Phebe Hopkins   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Jun 1793 
  • Birth Location:
  • Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joshua Paine
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Mar 1814 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Provincetown, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Lysander Nickerson Paine (Ahnentafel No:6 )

• Sources for Nancy Nickerson

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Provincetown, Vol. 4, p. 37, Birth record for son Lysander Nickerson Paine.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Provincetown, Vol. 2, p. 22, Marriage of Joshua Paine and Nancy Nickerson.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Provincetown, Vol. 1, p. 22, Birth record for Nancy Nickerson.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 523-524, gives Nancy's name incorrectly as Mary.