Ancestry of
Jordana Brewster

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David Besse

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Jordana Brewster — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 144 
  • Father:
  • David Besse Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Dinah Muxum   
  • Birth Date:
  • 11 May 1743 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Jedidah Burgess
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 May 1763 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Sylvanus Besse (Ahnentafel No:72 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give the marriage date for David Besse and Jedidah Burgess as 14 MAR 1779, however, this would be six years after their child Sylvanus was born.

• Sources for David Besse

  • ¹ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Wareham, Marriage record and intention for David Besse Jr and Jedidah Burge.
  • ² Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Wareham, Birth record for David Besse.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Wareham, Vol. 1, p. 20, Birth records for children of David and Jedidah Besse.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Wareham, Vol. 76, p. 226, Death record for son Sylvanus Besse.
  • ⁵ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1969, Vol. 123, p. 65.
  • ⁶ Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, Volume 3, (Chicago: J. H. Beers and Company (1912)), 1628.
  • ⁷ The Mayflower Descendant, 1934, Vol. 32, p. 184, Birth record for son Sylvanus Besse.
  • ⁸ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 39, New York: James T. White and Company (1954), 509.
  • ⁹ Burgess, Ebenezer, Burgess Genealogy: Memorial of the Family of Thomas and Dorothy Burgess, Who Were Settled at Sandwich . . ., Boston: Press of T. R. Marvin and Son (1865), 25.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 516.

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