Ancestry of
Claire Danes

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William Boynton

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• • 9th Great-grandfather of Claire Danes — 12th Generation
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  • Father:
  • William Boynton 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1606 
  • Birth Location:
  • Knapton, East Riding, Yorkshire, England 
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  • Elizabeth Jackson
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  Mary Boynton

  Caleb Boynton (Ahnentafel No:1100 )

• Sources for William Boynton

  • ¹ Early New England Families, 1641-1700, Daniel Warner (m. 1640), p. 3.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Rowley, Vol. 1, p. 27, Birth record for daughter Mary Boynton.
  • ³ New York, Yates County, Swann Vital Records Collection, 1723-2009, Record for William Boynton.
  • ⁴ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 37.
  • ⁵ Boynton, John Farnham and Caroline (Harriman) Boynton, The Boynton Family: A Genealogy of the Descendants of William and John Boynton, Who Emigrated from Yorkshire . . ., n. p.: n. p. (1897), 1-2.
  • ⁶ Rix, Guy S., History and Genealogy of the Eastman Family of America, Concord, New Hampshire: Press of Ira C. Evans (1901), 9.
  • ⁷ Virkus, Frederick Adam, The Compendium of American Genealogy: The Standard Genealogical Encyclopedia of the First Families of America, Vol. 4, Chicago: The Virkus Company, Genealogical Publishers (1930), 318.

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