Ancestry of
Danny Ainge

NBA Player and Coach

Jane Clifton

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• • 7th Great-grandmother of Danny Ainge — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 845 
  • Father:
  • Savory Clifton 
  • Mother:
  • Dorothy Burgess   
  • Birth Date:
  • 15 Feb 1697 
  • Birth Location:
  • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Thomas Bowerman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Oct 1721 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Falmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Ichabod Bowerman (Ahnentafel No:422 )

  • Notes: 

  • Amos Otis in his Barnstable Families alleged that Thomas Bowerman had married Jane Harby. However, Falmouth TR show that Thomas Bowerman actually married Jane Clifton ("Clafen") in 1721. There is no evidence that Thomas Bowerman had a wife named Jane Harby before his marriage to Jane Clifton. (see T.A.G. 48:217)

• Sources for Jane Clifton

  • ¹ Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 2, pp. 656-657.
  • ² Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 3, p. 932.
  • ³ The American Genealogist, 1972, Vol. 48, p. 217.
  • ⁴ Merrick, Barbara Lambert, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 24, Part 3, William Brewster, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2019), 4.
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 597.

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