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Geena Davis

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Jonathan Nye

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Geena Davis — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 616 
  • Father:
  • Benjamin Nye 
  • Mother:
  • Katherine Tupper   
  • Birth Date:
  • 20 Nov 1649 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • from 7 Jul 1744 to 13 May 1747 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Patience Burgess
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1690 
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  Jonathan Nye (Ahnentafel No:308 )

  Joseph Nye

  Benjamin Nye

  Thomas Nye

  Abigail Nye

  David Nye

• Additional marriages for Jonathan Nye

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  • Spouse:
  • Hannah - - - - - -
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1678

• Sources for Jonathan Nye

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sandwich, Vol. 1, p. 4, Birth record for Jonathan Nye.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Sandwich, Vol. 1, p. 67, Birth records for children of Jonathan and Patience Nye.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1945, Vol. 99, p. 59.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2005, Vol. 159, pp. 77-78.
  • ⁵ Austin, John D., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 6, 3rd ed., Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 278.
  • ⁶ Burgess, Ebenezer, Burgess Genealogy: Memorial of the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess, Who Were Settled at Sandwich . . ., Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin and Son (1865), 12.
  • ⁷ Hannibal, Edna Anne, John Briggs of Sandwich, Massachusetts and His Descendants, Unknown: Typed manuscript (1962), 5.
  • ⁸ Nye, George Hyatt and Frank E. Best, et. al., A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nye Family of American Association (1907), 29, 39-41.
  • ⁹ Nye, R. Glen, A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Vol. II, n.p.: The Nye Family of America Association Inc. (1965), 39-41.
  • ¹⁰ Tupper, Franklin Whittlesey, Thomas Tupper and His Descendants, Boston, Massachusetts: Tupper Family Association of America, Inc. (1945), 19.
  • ¹¹ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 298.

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