Ben Affleck and Matt Damon: Keepin’ it in the family!
We know that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are BFFs, but as it turns out, they’re actually related!The New England Historic Genealogical Society yesterday revealed that the Cambridge homeys are actually 10th cousins once removed. They share a common 10th great-grandfather, William Knowlton of Ipswich, a bricklayer who died in 1655.
“We suspected they might be related since both of them had ancestry going back to colonial New England,” said geneologist Chris Child, who did the research with colleague Rhonda McClure.
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