Ancestry of
Geena Davis

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Ebenezer Standish

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Geena Davis — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1822 
  • Father:
  • Alexander Standish 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Alden   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1672 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 19 Mar 1755 
  • Death Location:
  • Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Old Cemetery, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Sturtevant
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1697 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Children:
  
  

  Zachariah Standish

  Moses Standish

  Hannah Standish (Ahnentafel No:911 )

  Zerviah Standish

  Sarah Standish

  Mercy Standish

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources give Ebenezer Standish a son named Ebenezer. This is incorrect and appears to be from confusing Ebenezer, son of Zachariah Standish. The latter Ebenezer is called junior in the vital records which appears to be the cause of the confusion.

• Sources for Ebenezer Standish

  • ¹ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 119.
  • ² Hill, Peter B., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 11, Part 2, Edward Doty, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 9.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 69, 308, 581, 758.
  • ⁴ Roser, Susan E., Mayflower Increasings, 2nd Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (1997), 107.
  • ⁵ Sturtevant, Robert Hunter, Descendants of Samuel Sturtevant, Waco, Texas: Texian Press (1986), Index 3-4.
  • ⁶ Thacher, Julia Edgar, Joshua Gray of Yarmouth, Massachusetts and His Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts: Press of Murray and Emery Company (1914), 113.
  • ⁷ Wakefield, Robert S. and Russell L. Warner, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 14, Family of Myles Standish, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2007), 5, 12-13.
  • ⁸ Williams, Alicia Crane, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1999), 43, 119.

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