Ancestry of
Jordana Brewster

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Jedidah Burgess

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• • 5th Great-grandmother of Jordana Brewster — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 145 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Burgess 
  • Mother:
  • Jedidah Gibbs   
  • Birth Date:
  • 10 Jun 1747 
  • Birth Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 28 Aug 1747 
  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 1 Jun 1823 
  • Death Location:
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  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Riverside Cemetery, Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • David Besse
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 May 1763 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Sylvanus Besse (Ahnentafel No:72 )

  • Notes: 

  • Jedidah Burgess's maiden name is also seen as Burge.

    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 Jedidah Burgess

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/03/2017).
  • ² Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Wareham, Marriage record and intention for David Besse Jr and Jedidah Burge.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Wareham, Vol. 1, p. 20, Birth records for children of David and Jedidah Besse.
  • ⁴ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Wareham, Vol. 1, p. 12, Birth record for Jedidah Burges.
  • ⁵ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Wareham, Vol. 76, p. 226, Death record for son Sylvanus Besse.
  • ⁶ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1969, Vol. 123, p. 65.
  • ⁷ Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, Volume 3, (Chicago: J. H. Beers and Company (1912)), 1628.
  • ⁸ The Mayflower Descendant, 1934, Vol. 32, p. 184, Birth record for son Sylvanus Besse.
  • ⁹ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 39, New York: James T. White and Company (1954), 509.
  • ¹⁰ 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.
  • ¹¹ 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.
  • ¹² Wakefield, Robert S., comp., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 18, Part 3, Richard Warren, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2001), 91.

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