Ancestry of
Geena Davis

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Joshua Nye

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Geena Davis — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 154 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Nye 
  • Mother:
  • Deborah Blackwell   
  • Birth Date:
  • 31 Aug 1733 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1790 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Jenkins
  • Marriage Date:
  • AFT 7 May 1756 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Deborah Nye (Ahnentafel No:77 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Joshua Nye

  • ¹ Lainhart, Ann Smith and Jane Fletcher Fiske, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 23, Part 3, John Howland, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2012), 96-99.
  • ² Nye, George Hyatt and Frank E. Best, et. al., A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nye Family of American Association (1907), 74, 106-107.
  • ³ Wakefield, Robert S. and Ann Smith Lainhart, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 23, Part 1, John Howland, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2006), 152.

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