Ancestry of
Geena Davis

Movie and TV Actress

Benjamin Jenkins

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of Geena Davis — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 310 
  • Father:
  • Joseph Jenkins 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Howland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Jun 1707 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jun 1787 
  • Death Location:
  • Barre, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mehitable Blish
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Oct 1730 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Children:
  
  

  Hannah Jenkins

  Lydia Jenkins (Ahnentafel No:155 )

• Sources for Benjamin Jenkins

  • ¹ Nye, George Hyatt and Frank E. Best, et. al., A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nye Family of American Association (1907), 106.
  • ² 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), 33, 151-152.
  • ³ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 2, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1993, 4th printing 2008), 119.

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