Ancestry of
Geena Davis

Movie and TV Actress

Priscilla Clarke

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• • 9th Great-grandmother of Geena Davis — 12th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2171 
  • Father:
  • (probable) Thomas Clarke 
  • Mother:
  • (probable) Mary Canne   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1619 
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  • Death Date:
  • 12 Aug 1692 
  • Death Location:
  • Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Nathaniel Colburn
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Jul 1639 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Sarah Colburn

  Priscilla Colburn (Ahnentafel No:1085 )

  Samuel Colburn

  • Notes: 

  • Claims that Priscilla Clarke was the daughter of Thomas and Mary (Cann) Clark have been disproved. (see NEHGR 153:180-182)

• Sources for Priscilla Clarke

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, John Morse (m. 1637), p. 3.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1999, Vol. 153, pp. 180-182.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1998, Vol. 152, pp. 21-22.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 67.
  • ⁵ Tingley, Raymon Meyers, Some Ancestral Lines: Being a Record of Some of the Ancestors of Guilford Solon Tingley and His Wife Martha Pamela Meyers, Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc. (1935), 80-81.

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