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David Nye

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Bill Nye — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 64 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Nye 
  • Mother:
  • Patience Burgess   
  • Birth Date:
  • 1 Jul 1706 
  • Birth Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Apr 1796 
  • Death Location:
  • Douglas, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Briggs
  • Marriage Date:
  • 25 Oct 1733 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Ward Nye (Ahnentafel No:32 )

• Sources for David Nye

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rochester, Vol. 1, p. 226, Birth record for son Ward Nye.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rochester, Vol. 2, p. 226, Marriage record for David Nye and Elizabeth Briggs.
  • ³ Hannibal, Edna Anne, John Briggs of Sandwich, Massachusetts and His Descendants, Unknown: Typed manuscript (1962), 5.
  • 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), 41, 78-79.