Ancestry of
Jordana Brewster

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Lucy Anne Waterman

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• • 3rd Great-grandmother of Jordana Brewster — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 37 
  • Father:
  • Jotham Waterman 
  • Mother:
  • Olive Phinney   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Oct 1814 
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Dec 1889 
  • Death Location:
  • Groton, New London, Connecticut 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Centre Cemetery, Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Sylvanus S. Besse Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Jul 1832 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Vernon, Windham, Vermont 
  • Child:

  Lyman Waterman Besse (Ahnentafel No:18 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some sources give Lucy Waterman's birth year as 1815. Her tombstone gives it as 1814.

• Sources for Lucy Anne Waterman

  • ¹ Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934, Death record for Lucy A Besse.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/03/2017).
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Wareham, Vol. 308, p. 332, Marriage record for son Lyman W Besse and Henrietta L Segee.
  • ⁴ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2001, Vol. 2.1, p. 40.
  • ⁵ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 39, New York: James T. White and Company (1954), 509.
  • ⁶ Vermont: Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1700-2008, Marriage record for Sylvanus Besse Jr and Lucy Ann Waterman.
  • ⁷ Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family: Vol. I, Descendants of Robert Waterman of Marshfield, Massachusetts, New Haven, Connecticut: Edgar F. Waterman (1939), 579.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 515-516.

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