Ancestry of
Geena Davis

Movie and TV Actress

Benjamin Nye

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Geena Davis — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1232 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Nye 
  • Mother:
  • Agnes -----   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 May 1620 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 9 Jun 1704 to 17 May 1707 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Katherine Tupper
  • Marriage Date:
  • 19 Oct 1640 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Mary Nye

  John Nye

  Jonathan Nye (Ahnentafel No:616 )

  Mercy Nye

  Nathan Nye

• Sources for Benjamin Nye

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1945, Vol. 99, p. 59.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2005, Vol. 159, pp. 73-74.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1965, Vol. 119, p. 262.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2004, Vol. 158, pp. 347-360.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 243.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 43.
  • ⁷ Nye, George Hyatt and Frank E. Best, et. al., A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nye Family of American Association (1907), 23, 27-29.
  • ⁸ Tupper, Franklin Whittlesey, Thomas Tupper and His Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts: Tupper Family Association of America, Inc. (1945), 19.

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