Ancestry of
Taylor Lautner

TV and Movie Actor

Silas Nye

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Taylor Lautner — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 764 
  • Father:
  • Caleb Nye 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Bodfish   
  • Birth Date:
  • 4 Oct 1744 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 14 Oct 1744 
  • Christening Location:
  • West Parish Church, Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • 12 Nov 1812 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Pioneer Burying Ground, Pittsford, Monroe, New York 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Patience Carpenter
  • Marriage Date:
  • 27 Nov 1766 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Nathan Nye (Ahnentafel No:382 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Silas Nye

  • ¹ General Society of Mayflower Descendants Membership Applications, 1620-1920, General No. 22064, Membership application for Marion Alice Nye Ristig.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 02/20/2024).
  • ³ MacNab, Margaret Schmitt, et. al., Northfield on the Genesee: Early Times in Monroe County, N.Y., with Town Minues and Highway Records, 1796-1814 . . ., Rochester, County of Monroe (1981), 242.
  • 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), 90, 140-141.
  • ⁵ White, Elizabeth Pearson, John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 2, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1993, 4th printing 2008), 189.

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