Ancestry of
Johnny Carson

TV Host - “The Tonight Show”

Jonathan Nye Jr.

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Johnny Carson — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 34 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Nye 
  • Mother:
  • Mercy Ellis   
  • Birth Date:
  • 30 Jun 1792 
  • Birth Location:
  • Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 22 Jan 1879 
  • Death Location:
  • St. Albans, Somerset, Maine 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Sperrin
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  • Child:

  Dorothy "Dolly" Nye (Ahnentafel No:17 )

• Additional marriages for Jonathan Nye Jr.

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  • Spouse:
  • Sarah Varney Towne
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1838
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Clinton, Kennebec, Maine

• Sources for Jonathan Nye Jr.

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A085369 and #A085402.
  • ² Nye, George Hyatt and Frank E. Best, et. al., A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nye Family of American Association (1907), 170, 273-274.
  • ³ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 126.