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Jonas Ward Nye

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Bill Nye — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 16 
  • Father:
  • Ward Nye 
  • Mother:
  • Rachel Stone   
  • Birth Date:
  • 27 Nov 1795 
  • Birth Location:
  • Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • Nov 1877 
  • Death Location:
  • Washington, D.C. 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Polly Blodgett
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Mar 1827 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Elba, Genesee, New York 
  • Children:
  
  

  Maria Theresa Nye

  Norman Willard Nye

  Ellen A. Nye

  Ivonette Nye

  Mary Frances Nye

  Luther Blodgett Nye (Ahnentafel No:8 )

  Rachel Keziah Nye

• Sources for Jonas Ward Nye

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A110097.
  • ² Federal Census, District of Columbia, 1870, Washington, Ward 3, p. 245, Image 246 of 393.
  • ³ Federal Census, District of Columbia, 1860, Washington, Ward 3, p. 150, Image 150 of 236.
  • ⁴ Bartlett, Joseph Gardner, Gregory Stone Genealogy: Ancestry and Descendants of Dea. Gregory Stone of Cambridge, Mass. 1320-1917, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Murray Printing Company (1918), 150.
  • ⁵ Nye, George Hyatt and Frank E. Best, et. al., A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nye Family of American Association (1907), 125, 208-209.
  • ⁶ Nye, R. Glen, A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Vol. II, n.p.: The Nye Family of America Association Inc. (1965), 41.
  • ⁷ Thompson, Bradley Deforest and Franklin Condit Thompson, Blodget-Blodgett Descendants of Thomas of Cambridge, Concord, New Hampshire: Typed manuscript (1955), 332.