Ancestry of
Jordana Brewster

TV and Movie Actress

Thankful Bates

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Jordana Brewster — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 73 
  • Father:
  • John Bates 
  • Mother:
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1774 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 13 Aug 1861 
  • Death Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Sylvanus Besse
  • Marriage Date:
  • 15 May 1800 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Wareham, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Sylvanus S. Besse Jr. (Ahnentafel No:36 )

• Sources for Thankful Bates

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Wareham, Vol. 148, p. 353, Death record for Thankful Besse.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1841-1910, Wareham, Vol. 184, p. 310, Death record for son Silvanus Besse.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2014, Vol. 168, p. 275, note 33.
  • ⁴ Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, Volume 3, (Chicago: J. H. Beers and Company (1912)), 1628.
  • ⁵ The Mayflower Descendant, 1933, Vol. 31, p. 127, Birth record for son Sylvanus Besse.
  • ⁶ The Mayflower Descendant, 1934, Vol. 32, p. 189, Marriage published for Silvanus Besse and Thankfull Bates.
  • ⁷ The Mayflower Descendant, 1933, Vol. 31, p. 153, Marriage record for Sylvanus Besse and Thankful Bates.
  • ⁸ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 39, New York: James T. White and Company (1954), 509.
  • ⁹ 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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