Ancestry of
Alice (Lee) Roosevelt

First Wife of President Theodore Roosevelt

Ebenezer Nye

View famous kin of Ebenezer Nye

• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Alice (Lee) Roosevelt — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 26 
  • Father:
  • Caleb Nye 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Bodfish   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Feb 1739 
  • Birth Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Christening Date:
  • 30 Mar 1740 
  • Christening Location:
  • West Parish Church, Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 3 Sep 1793 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts 
  • Burial Date:
  •  
  • Burial Location:
  •  
  • Spouse Name:
  • Melatiah Sturges
  • Marriage Date:
  • 8 Jul 1759 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Barnstable, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Achsah Nye (Ahnentafel No:13 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War veteran

• Sources for Ebenezer Nye

  • ¹ Massachusetts, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1635-1991, Case #44025, Probate file for Ebenezer Nye.
  • ² Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 92, Marriage record for Ebenezer Nye and Melatiah Sturges.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Barnstable, Vol. 1, p. 89, Marriage intention for Ebenezer Nye and Melatiah Sturges.
  • ⁴ U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970, S.A.R. #73927, Membership application for Willard Felton Sterne.
  • ⁵ Nye, George Hyatt and Frank E. Best, et. al., A Genealogy of the Nye Family, Cleveland, Ohio: The Nye Family of American Association (1907), 90, 138-139.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 14.
  • ⁷ White, Elizabeth Pearson, ""John Howland of the Mayflower, Vol. 2, Camden, Maine: Picton Press (1993, 4th printing 2008), 189.