Ancestry of
Geena Davis

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Deborah Nye

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Geena Davis — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 77 
  • Father:
  • Joshua Nye 
  • Mother:
  • Lydia Jenkins   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 1 Aug 1758 
  • Christening Location:
  • West Parish Church, Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 23 May 1792 
  • Death Location:
  • Barnard, Windsor, Vermont 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Joseph Chamberlain
  • Marriage Date:
  • 18 Apr 1776 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Elisha Chamberlin (Ahnentafel No:38 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources incorrectly state that Deborah was the daughter of Samuel and Lydia (Benson) Nye, born at Rochester, Massachusetts, in 1747.

• Sources for Deborah Nye

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Hardwick, Vol. 1, p. 153, Marriage of Joseph Chamberlin and Deborah Nye.
  • ² 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), 97.
  • ³ Newton, William Monroe, History of Barnard, Vermont with Family Genealogies, 1761-1927, Vol. 2, [Montpelier, Vermont]: Vermont Historical Society (1928), 110-111, gives Lydia's parentage as Samuen Nye and Lydia Benson.
  • ⁴ Nye, George Hyatt and Frank E. Best, et. al., A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nye Family of American Association (1907), 107.

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