Matthew Paige Damon, actor

This will be a short post about one of my favorite actors - Matt Damon.  It would be a tad crazy to give a summary of his life and accomplishments, just about everything you need to know is on Wikipedia.

Miguel Angel Azua Garcia [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Having recently downloaded the We're Related app by Ancestry, I was not surprised that one of the first notable kin that it presented was Jason Bourne, aka Matt Damon.  I had once before connected him in and knew he was related, but had forgotten how.  I revisited the connection as proposed by the app and found it to be accurate.  So yes, Matt Damon is a fellow Mower descendant, coming in as my 7th cousin once removed.  Our common set of ancestors being Samuel and Elizabeth (Sprague) Mower of Malden, Massachusetts.  I descend from their youngest child, Jonathan (the patriarch of the Maine branch); whereas Matt descends from their eldest child, Elizabeth, who married Jonathan Lynde, settling in Athol, Massachusetts for several generations.


Line of descent: 1-Richard Mower, 2-Samuel Mower, 3-Samuel Mower, 4-Elizabeth (Mower) Lynde, 5-Lydia (Lynde) Smith, 6-Luther Smith, 7-Lynds Smith, 8-Altemirah (Smith) Fay, 9-Clarence Farwell Fay, 10-Roberta M. (Fay) Damon, 11-Kent Telfer Damonn
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Sources

• Systematic History Fund. Vital Records of Athol, Massachusetts, To the end of year 1849. Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, Trustee of the Fund, 1910.
• Rice, Franklin P. Worcester Births, Marriages and Deaths. Worcester, Massachusetts: The Worcester Society of Antiquity, 1894.
•  Telegraph, The, Nashua, New Hampshire, GenealogyBank.com: accessed 13 November 2016) Roberta F Or Fay Damon obituary
• Ancestry.com, Find-A-Grave, database with digital images (www.findagrave.com : accessed 13 November 2016)